What is your favourite bait

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What is your favourite bait
I have listed the most common baits for sea fishing

You can only vote once

[Norfolkboy]

I've voted for lug, although it would be lug AND squid, but as i can only vote for one it would have to be lug.

[steve devon]

i think crab because theres not many fish that wont take crab

[upnorth1]

I've voted for white ragworm, i've lost count how many matches i've won using me whites, theres a place in Scotland where I dig them where the snakes go up to sixteen inches long, honest , they are fantastic, and keep for ages, i've kept whites in me fridges for up to a year, the secret is not to overcrowd them and keep them in coaldust, the coaldust from our beaches filters the water in the trays! one change of water every two months, and the result - always whites in my fridges!
My favourite cod bait from the beach is big yellowtail lug tipped with half a snake white , the term commonly used up here is BLACK AND WHITE OUTA SIGHT!!
From the rocks, crab, lug, rag, mussel, squid, wrapped around with salmon roe (frozen), normally known as a COCKTAIL, you have to reduce your lead as these baits can weigh up to two ounces! good job we're just lobbing into holes and gullies.

[Ben]

i votted for musels but i tip them off with a bit of squid or something

[steve devon]

what do you use them for then?

[Ben]

anything
when i went to yorkshire i caught a ling and codling on them and was getting 100's of bites every cast just wasnt making contact

[steve devon]

i guess they are like prawns then

we use prawns a lot here for lots of species but hardly ever mussels
you use mussels a lot and hardly ever prawns :?

[Ben]

the problem i found was that you had to tie them on with the elastic type stuff which was really hard in the pitch black and rain and wind when your hands are freezing and also they make your hands stink even more than some other baits

[steve devon]

like peelers then :lol: