Fishing Bait

I dream of using the good old lugworm again but in Orkney although there are plenty of casts the worms are so deep that unless you use a JCB you have no chance of gathering enough for a decent days fishing, Any ideas? Can any of you help Michael with the above question. I have [...]

Rag worm are a superb sea fishing bait. They stay alive on the hook for ages and can be presented in a few ways from boats and the shore depending if you are after movement or a scent trail for fish to follow. Using Rag worm as Bait A single or a few small worm [...]

Collecting Lug worm The above video is a great bit of work showing you how to dig and collect Black Lug worm. I also have written a few ideas here – Collecting lug worm

Fishing a Prawn Float fishing with a live Prawn is a very successful and exciting form of fishing. It is not common practice, Sand Eels for example, get used a lot more as a live bait. The nice thing about the common prawn is its easy to collect. You can either have a prawn trap [...]

Hard backed crabs, a popular smoothound bait can prove a little tricky to hook and present well. There are two simple solutions for you as follows Hooking Crab No 1 I am not as keen on this method as crabs have feelings! But you remove a leg and thread the crab on, making sure the [...]

Delboy wants to have a few answers from you regarding this question about peeler crab. He has been fishing for many years and finds his top bait to be the peeler crab. Can you help him out? There must be someone out there that can help? I have been sea angling for over 40 years [...]

Roger, a long time reader and forumm member wants some help with his bait and anybody out there who can help should please comment on this post. He asks Talking about collecting and PRESERVING bait, does anybody know how to preserve prawns and colour them red or purple. I’ve experimented but am only halfway there. [...]

It has been a month now since I posted the question “What’s your favourite sea fishing bait?” and I am delighted with participation levels. Firstly, thank you every one who voted, votes help make the information more viable and give a better result set. Secondly we have a clear winner as follows. Lug Worm – [...]

There are die hards for particular baits. People have there own reasons for this and I am interested to find out what are the most popular sea fishing baits out of the most popular baits used. I have set a poll on the right hand side below the Categories section where you can vote on [...]

Can you tell me what blueys are. I have seen them mentioned for Pike fishing and sea fishing and I would like to know what they really are. I have spent many hours looking for the answer for this on the web, as it is a question I have been pondering for a while. I [...]