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    Posted: 27 Jan 2010 at 8:31pm
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Hi Guys!

Was at Woolworths today and they had raw prawn cutlets (freeflow) $19.95 a kilo. Thought I might try them on my flasher rigs. Must be at least a 100 in a bag. Thats about 20 cents a bait. Any one tried them??
 
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Yep, Prawns my number one bait although I use them with the shell on.  I've caught pretty much everthing on them. Best of all they're cheap...
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Shedz2 - I think New World usually have the whole prawns for about $14 - $15 per Kilo. I would use these with the extra body juices and more natural look rather than the cutlets.
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Bought some whole prawns a while ago from Top Catch I think it was. They were $5 for about 500gms. Tried them on Monday without much luck, but it was a day when the fish weren't interested in anything offered. They stayed on the hook well and the mushy stuff they have in their heads seeped out nicely.

Also tried some cooked prawn cutlets off the rocks on the Manukau the other week. They got a few hits and a kahawai fell to one.
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few years ago a container lost power and a whole heap were sold for bait, they were like $15 for a 10kg carton, brought a few cartons and once you got the snaps going on them they just went for it....


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think id rather eat them in garlic butter minus the hook
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Wrap them in a bit of squid.  Absolutely lethal baits.
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No one worried about exotic diseases in the raw prawns from overseas?
Australia tests all their imported whole raw prawns for white spot disease.
Do we want to risk our rock lobster and crab fisheries?
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Snapper will gobble them long before any crabs or crayfish get a lookLOL
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Originally posted by Cadeusus Cadeusus wrote:

No one worried about exotic diseases in the raw prawns from overseas?
Australia tests all their imported whole raw prawns for white spot disease.
Do we want to risk our rock lobster and crab fisheries?
Isnt that just for there un frozzen prawn imports ?? 
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we had a tone of prawns we used for berley and they worked great. They were bought to mix in with berley but no one would buy a white berley bomb.  Needless to say when we mixed them up with blood an bone and oats the fish came up spewing them all out.


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