PRAWNS FOR BAIT...
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Topic: PRAWNS FOR BAIT...
Posted By: shedz2
Subject: PRAWNS FOR BAIT...
Date 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??
Feedback please!! :)
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Replies:
Posted By: Big H
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2010 at 9:28pm
| 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... |
Posted By: Tagit
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2010 at 9:30pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Finatic
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2010 at 9:36pm
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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. ------------- What's the cheapest type of meat? Dear balls. They're under a buck. |
Posted By: OffTheHook
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2010 at 9:39pm
| yup good bait |
Posted By: Lethal
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2010 at 10:01pm
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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.... ------------- Thanks for everything you did for us Eric. may you rest in peace, You were one of the real legends of NZ recreational fishing |
Posted By: empty
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2010 at 10:01pm
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think id rather eat them in garlic butter minus the hook ------------- what happened to the pissing man? |
Posted By: Zambezi
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2010 at 10:07pm
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Wrap them in a bit of squid. Absolutely lethal baits.
------------- A man’s comfort in life can be measured by the quality of the toilet paper he uses to wipe his arse. |
Posted By: Cadeusus
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2010 at 2:05pm
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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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Posted By: Muppet
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2010 at 2:10pm
Snapper will gobble them long before any crabs or crayfish get a look
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Posted By: one leg
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2010 at 2:18pm
------------- woman who say they are equal to men ,show lack of Ambition . |
Cadeusus wrote:Posted By: Phishpula
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2010 at 3:03pm
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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. ------------- Turtle free since 2012 |