Sprats for shore fishing

[Ben]

i aint had a single flounedr yet this year and i was getting quite afew this time last year, and i aint seen any` get 1 either but lots of school bass and quite afew bream
o yeah and lots of sea weed, theres about 3 times as much this year, if you try fishing just before high tide its nearly inposible but it goes after high tide

[steve devon]

where you fish you dont seem to get many fish but you get the good species like bass and bream

[Ben]

yeah but non of any decent size, or not yet anyway
is it the right time of year now for flounders?? cause all the 1s i got last year were big enough to eat unlike all the lil schoolies i had this year and the odd bream, shame can eat smoothy

[steve devon]

best time for flounders here is winter but up where you are i think its different

wierd for them this year coz they hav been caught off the beaches all year and lots of them aswel

cant get to the beaches thow

[Ben]

weird, at least im catching though

[John Marshall]

Don't know about the beach, but I've used sprats on wrecks with some success,
thinking being... if pollock and ling cough 'em up when caught, they must be fedding
on them

[Fishing Forum Admin]

Well it seems its worth a go using sprats

When using them in freshwater I sometimes marinate them over night in i.e blood worm / squid extract ect.

Or on the river bank I inject them in the stomach with the above

So if I can get some for the next weekend shore fishing meet up I will give it a go and will post the results

[Ben]

does it improve catch rates that much using stuff like that in the bait??
i read somewhere about stuffing whole squid with blended macky n worm n stuff for catching cod and just wrape the end up with bait elastic
any1 hear of that sorta thing before??

[devondave]

ive heard of stuffing whole squid with peeler crab.
they use that down at berry head in the winter to catch the cod and it seems to work there but i have never tried it myself

[Fishing Forum Admin]

Yes Ben

Well it seems its worth a go using sprats

When using them in freshwater I sometimes marinate them over night in i.e blood worm / squid extract ect.

Or on the river bank I inject them in the stomach with the above

So if I can get some for the next weekend shore fishing meet up I will give it a go and will post the results