| #1  01-23-2008, 04:17 PM | ||||
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| Sprats I was in tesco's today, and noticed they had Sprats on sale for £1.31 a pound, so I bought some for a bit of pike and zander dead baiting, I just wondered if anyone had used them for sea fishing, are they any good and if so what species would I be targeting with them? __________________ Life is understood looking backwards, but it must be lived forwards.     |
| #2 01-23-2008, 04:37 PM | ||||
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| Re: Sprats Interesting to see the replies ,,, ive never used them but i understand they are good for cod  lee. __________________ If Everyday things are getting you down & stressing you out, Think like a Dog, If it cant be Eaten or Humped, Piss on it and walk away.. |
| #3 01-23-2008, 05:38 PM | ||||
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| Re: Sprats at the moment the bristol channel is full of them  , spoiling the cod fishing.all the fish we have caught have had them in their guts,so would have to say good bait for cod.plugger  peter __________________ if at first you dont succeed buy a boat. peter |
| #4 01-23-2008, 08:16 PM | ||||
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| Re: Sprats Good in strips for Dabs ..... nice oily fish ! __________________ SUPPORT THE RNLI - click : www.rnli.org.uk ... every little helps ! PLEASE REMEMBER & GIVE A LITTLE .... http://www.poppy.org.uk/ |
| #5 01-23-2008, 08:26 PM | ||||
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| Re: Sprats I would be surpised if this question has not been asked over the last millenium or so, I can only assume that if they were any good we would know about it? I may be wrong though |
| #6 01-23-2008, 09:55 PM | ||||
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| Re: Sprats They use them a lot for mackerel and gar in the summer, usually outfish mackerel strip __________________ |
| #7 01-23-2008, 10:31 PM | ||||
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| Re: Sprats Too delicate for float fishing for macks and gars, IMHO. Fish feeding on them (cod, whiting, bass) become preoccupied and usually feeding away from the bottom. Find a shoal in the Solent in the winter months and you usually find schoolies under them; feathers are deadly at this time .... rarely are the bass more than 2lbs. (How many of us carry white feathers in the winter months???). In 50 or so years of cod fishing on the E and S coasts of the UK, I've never seen a cod caught on sprats. As someone said they can be deadly as a tipped bait for dabs and sometimes for flounders.  |
| #8 01-23-2008, 10:44 PM | |||
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| Re: Sprats delicate?! they are more fragile than some baits agreed but you can keep them on the hook no problem.. when we get a run of sprats down here (which didnt happen last year  ) its usually august/september time and sprat becomes good bait for almost anything that swims!ive had great fun fishing oddicome beach catching doggy after doggy on sprats... its also good bait for the mullet (beats mackerel flesh hands down!) and of course the mackerel and garfish love it too __________________ fishing for fish is not as simple as you may think! |
| #9 01-24-2008, 01:32 AM | ||||
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| Re: Sprats i've always found them too delicate for my style of fishing and have rarely used them. but now i've a d-vice i might see if that helps presentation. __________________ beer so many venues, so little time. |
| #10 01-28-2008, 07:56 PM | ||||
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| Re: Sprats Well I tried the sprats as bait on Saturday, and the only thing I caught with them was a baby Bull Huss, it was taking the sprat head first and seemed very reluctant to let it go. I think I will try these again, they held up quite well, but I did use a load of elastic on them, they looked a bit like sandeels by the time I had bound them on __________________ Life is understood looking backwards, but it must be lived forwards. |
