hardbacks as bait ?

Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:22 pm

Has anybody caught fish on hardback crab? I`ve seen bass shaking them out of weed and eating them and caught a 6lb`er with 14 fifty p sized hardbacks in it.The only fish i`ve caught on `em are smuts and wrasse.

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I fished with my buddy over at Rame Head a couple of summers ago and he picked up a 5lb + ballen on a smalley hardbacked shore crab, the jammy so and so.

so they do work.

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:18 am

i gutted a 4 lb cod on the beach that i caught a few weeks it had a hardback crab about the saize of a fifty pence in the stomach so i removed the tor shell and the bit underneath the put it on my hook with elastic cast out then had a bite it wasa small codling about a pound so it does work also a few years ago a cod had a wholepeeler in its stomach when i got home i froze the crab just to try and i caught a codling on that another way of recycling i guess cheers if you donttry it you dont know

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:36 pm

So it can be done ! I have found lots of fingernail sized crab in flounder over the years along with a suprising amount of blenny/goby type fish.Reckon the reason i don`t catch more on hback is i only use em when they`re plagueing the worm baits.Found anything else of note inside fish?