Prawns as bait

[Wolf]

Advice needed when I'm using prawns for bait ,do I put them on head first so the head is up by the hook eye or vice versa,any answers would be helpful.

 

[Mike James]

Hi
The way I hook prawns is second ring up from the tail. This still lets them swim and keeps them live.

 

[GPSguru]

Advice needed when I'm using prawns for bait ,do I put them on head first so the head is up by the hook eye or vice versa,any answers would be helpful.

If they are live, then hook through the 3rd segment from the tail with a fine wire hook.

If they are dead (i.e. frozen prawn, or Asian king prawn), then thread them onto the hook like you would with a worm. Head first or tail first doesn't seem to make ant difference. Often I will chop off the head of a king and just use the tail section

 

[Wolf]

Thanks for the advice lads

 

[Seaside Malc]

Found my prawn trap when I was looking for something else. I used to put a little go pro camera in there. Can’t find the footage but I have got three more hard drives to look at.

 

[Wolf]

Hi Seaside Malc,I've just been given one of them ,I thought it was a crab trap,not a prawn one.

 

[Seaside Malc]

Quite possibly but I got both in my one ?

 

[Mr Fish]

Hi Seaside Malc,I've just been given one of them ,I thought it was a crab trap,not a prawn one.

Prawn really but as Malc says, catches both.

And fish!

 

[Had1]

Had a few species on live ones, nothing much on dead ones, or after 10 mins or so into the cast when the live ones cast from the shore start giving up.

 

[Wolf]

That's greedy Seaside Malc getting both ?? ?

 

[Seaside Malc]

Had a few species on live ones, nothing much on dead ones, or after 10 mins or so into the cast when the live ones cast from the shore start giving up.

I’m not casting them, just fishing them under a bobble float alongside the wall on the prom.