Frozen Prawns as bait

Anybody ever used frozen tiger prawns for bait and have success with em?

Thinking of giving them a go for wrasse

Hi Sean

Used them on An Corraun and found small pieces worked for a variety of species close in, but oddly enough not Wrasse. Caught small pollack, coalie, slugs, sculpin, poor cod and what I think was a very small pouting on it. Throw a few into a rock pool and when they float up, they have thawed fully.

Be interested to see how you get on with it...

What did you fish kieran and what stage of the tide?

Wrasse are more finicky than people give em credit for. Lugworm/crab/rag all have gotten me wrasse at corraun. But only in high summer

I've a report coming soon documenting 6 days fishing. Watch this space

don't know the name of it, there's a single finger of rock sticking out with coves on either side... get the odd ray at distance.
looking at heading out Sunday afternoon - weather permitting!

I used frozen prawns from a Chinese supermarket a good few times. Worked great and I ended up catching smoothies and ray with them in wicklow, not sure of the variety..but I got something like 50 for a tenner. Must pick up another pack for the freezer. I found the head of the prawns worked best whipped on to the hook.

I used frozen prawns from a Chinese supermarket a good few times. Worked great and I ended up catching smoothies and ray with them in wicklow, not sure of the variety..but I got something like 50 for a tenner. Must pick up another pack for the freezer. I found the head of the prawns worked best whipped on to the hook.

Nice one all. They certainly sound there working for you. I'm going try em tomorrow, I got two box's of raw tigers out of lidl. See how the go looking forward to see how the fish for wrasse compared to fresh lug and crab

I recently tried frozen whole shell-on prawns (cooked) from Tesco while wrasse fishing. I got numerous bites but no hook-ups, they may have been small wrasse and unable to make a whole prawn. I intend to try them again with bigger hooks and a lot more elastic. I have used the frozen raw peeled prawns before and had a wide range of species on them from doggies to sea trout.