bait problem
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				breamers boy
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bait problem
will be stuck for bait tomorrow and cant buy any ls there any food from around the house that make good bait.
			
			
									
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				bassboy
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Re: bait problem
Bread can be good for mullet but that's about it from my experience 
 sorry that I'm not much help but you should be able to pick some mackerel at the supermarket or you could fish with feathers for mackerel and if you get one you could use it as bait:) good luck
			
			
									
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Re: bait problem
where bouts and what fishing location, ie, beach,pier etc
			
			
									
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						2015: whiting, coalfish, turbot, pollack, ballan wrasse, conger, thornback, short spined sea scorpion , common blenny ,
2014 : dogfish, garfish, launce, common blenny, cuckoo wrasse, flounder, pollack, thornback ray,
2013 species:(15) Whiting, Dogfish, Three Bearded Rockling, bull huss, poor cod,turbot, flounder,pollack, spotted ray, thornback ray, launce, corkwing wrasse, long spined sea scorpion, common blenny,mackerel,
2012 species: Thornback, bull huss, Dogfish, pollack, Mackerel, bass, flounder, turbot, conger,
Species 09:(23) Conger, Whiting, Bass, flounder, Dogfish, dab, corkwing wrasse, pollack, bull huss(8lb 10oz~PB) , thornback ray(8lb~PB), dragonet, ballan wrasse, Blenny, Mackeral,long spined sea scorpion,pouting, coalfish, launce, codling, poor cod, starry smoothhound, 5 bearded rockling, shore rockling..
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Re: bait problem
here is a contact here: http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/bull ... 4&p=279807
			
			
									
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Re: bait problem
if your that stuck dig some garden worms you will have a chance of bass and maybe a wrass you might also catch whiting and flats witch you could use for conger
			
			
									
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Re: bait problem
If you are fishing at low tide from rocks you could pick a few limpets and use them for wrasse
			
			
									
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				ste c
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Re: bait problem
buy mackeral fillets out of a super market scrap all the above thats proper bear grill talk
			
			
									
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Re: bait problem
would that work better then frozen stuff at fish shops ?ste c wrote:buy mackeral fillets out of a super market scrap all the above thats proper bear grill talk
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Re: bait problem
I always ure the mackeral fillets from the supermarkets...get the ones that come in a packet, not from the fish counter as they just fall apart!!..
			
			
									
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Re: bait problem
Go to the shops and get some jelly worms sweets in the white pack and use with a jig heads for the sweet tooth wrasse 
  
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Re: bait problem
I've heard of people using wine gums for wrassesparkey+1 wrote:Go to the shops and get some jelly worms sweets in the white pack and use with a jig heads for the sweet tooth wrasse![]()
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Re: bait problem
À silver spinner or feathers, use it to catch some Mackerel, then ya can fish away using the mak as bait.
			
			
									
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Re: bait problem
chrisoc96 wrote:not trying to be smart put are ya takin the piss or does that actually work ? :L
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