leeboy728 Posted June 1, 2005 Report Posted June 1, 2005 i go down my local canal alot and i will b goin soon but i have a big problem with the crayfish eating my bait is there anything i can do to prevent this???? i really dont know what to do apart from using artificial baits which i really dont like doing ??? Quote
Guest Anonymous Posted June 1, 2005 Report Posted June 1, 2005 You can get bait cages to go over your baits and wychwood have just bought out some little devices called bait skins, basically clear shrink tube to cover your baits, these should help ya out! Quote
dw59 Posted June 2, 2005 Report Posted June 2, 2005 You could try air drying your bait for a few weeks until it goes rock hard. May help. Quote
leeboy728 Posted June 2, 2005 Author Report Posted June 2, 2005 cheers!! if there are any more ideas then i would still like to know please Quote
ripslider Posted June 5, 2005 Report Posted June 5, 2005 If you were a bad person, then you would know that if you net a few cray's, and then put them under your boot to kill them, breaking up their shell and making a mess in the process, and then you throw this big handful this in 10 yards down stream, for even canal's have streams, and then did the same upstream, then within an hour you would have a drastically reduced cray problem, to the point when you could probably fished a popped up worm, or boilie, with relative ease in about half an hour, which is as long as it takes to set up and have a smoke. However, you'd have to be a bad person to know this, because crays are a protected species, and so what the bad person did was bad, even though it was effective for a few hours, until the bad person had to do it again. However, becuase I'm not a bad person, I wouldn't be able to comment. Less bad people would get a couple of hessian or woven plastic bags, fill them with £2 worth of liver ( Which is a LOT ) and some stones, tie a rope around the end and haul them into the near-side edge of the main channel about 10 yards or a practical distance from your swim, either side. bad people would say that this isn't as good at keeping away cray's, but still helps a lot. again, I can't comment, but would say that if you got bored with carping, using either method, you'd be mad not to take that carp gear, swap to a very very running lead, and then fish popped up worms maybe 3 inches above the deck near where you put your liver, or where the bad person throw the smashed up bag of cray fish. That way, you'd be able to put the scariest bend you've ever seen into that rod of yours by catching a 5lb eel. Were you to do this, I'd reccommend the use of 15lb line and a long soft braided hooklength that is abrasion resistant. Steve Quote
sparky01 Posted June 7, 2005 Report Posted June 7, 2005 bad idea chucking um in after killing um they are full of eggs Quote
ripslider Posted June 10, 2005 Report Posted June 10, 2005 A dead anything can't spawn. Anywho, no one here is killing the cray fish, so it doesn't matter. Steve Quote
sparky01 Posted June 10, 2005 Report Posted June 10, 2005 A dead anything can't spawn. Anywho, no one here is killing the cray fish, so it doesn't matter. Steve they carry fertalised eggs m8ty and i dont return dead uns to the water Quote
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