PRAWNS??!!!

[TOURNAMENT-TOM]

there have been reported weights at my local fishery about big bags of carp being caught on prawns by the deckchair boys!, does anyone know of an approach using prawns that might work in match conditions? cheers

[torchwood]

hi round our way the match anglers have been using carp vaders prawno liqiud on corn or pellets with some good results
torchwood
http://www.torchwoodtackle.com

[Manc]

I won a match with 90lb on em in September at Border.
6 pints of hemp and one small pack of cocktail prawns, fished in the edge on a 14s..
They are not generally a winter bait. In my opinion, the carp like the salt in them in the warmer weather.
They seem to work best with hemp as a feed bait.

[TOURNAMENT-TOM]

thanks chaps

[TF_Daiwa pro]

Round are way a match was one with 50lb of perch down the edge on prawn, ever since chop worm has gone out the window and now everyone is on them!!!!!

[TF_Daiwa pro]

Oh yer and prawns was all that he took, feeding chopped praws then a half prawn on a size 12

[TF_One Out of the Frame]

Perch?

[Mick209]

Prawns on offer in sainsburys at the moment, check they are from a farmed source though……..

[TF_Johnny Mac]

Daiwa pro – 50lb of Perch on prawn, are you joking???

[TF_One Out of the Frame]

What venue as well DP?

[TF_Happy Dangler]

Have caught carp at Rolfes on prawns and cockles this year.

A tip for toughening up frozen prawns – for hair-rigging on feeder or when small fish are problem.

Defrost, drain as much as poss, then spread them out on newspaper or kitchen roll on a tray and completely cover with cheap coarse salt.

Leave them like this in a fridge or cool place overnight and then wipe off the salt. It dehydrates them and makes them stay on the hook much, much better without seeming to make them less effective.

[TF_wightangler]

nice tip HD, have had problems with some from iceland(probably not suprising), we dye em in predator plus which seems to work – mind you wightman uses his fresh locally caught ones no suprise he does rather better than the rest of us on them.

[TF_Happy Dangler]

wightangler, it was something the locals did in Goa

They’d also tip off the excess salt and mix some honey with the prawns & let them dry a bit more in the sun. Ended up with a salty/sweet crisp coating on – just watch the wasps.

[TOURNAMENT-TOM]

sounds good, sod the fish! they can av maggots!

[TF_Happy Dangler]

Lol TT – you wouldn’t even want to put your fingers near your mouth after touching prawns that have been left a day in the sun to dry….

[TOURNAMENT-TOM]

maybe not, if you put it that way! would be far from enjoyable

[olivette]

I have enjoyed success on prawn, but coloured them up using predator plus. Fed chopped prawn down the edge and fished half over the top on a size 14 pr28.

[mooseman]

Been useing prawns now for 2 seasons and their paying their way. Mainly in the summer i,m getting best results feeding small pieces along with a little pellet and using a third to a half a prawn on the hook. Picked up many a time this year at dryad and at back arun. Also in the winter by blending them in a liquidiser with a little predator red. Feeding this as slop and using small pieces on the hook, seems to hold the fish longer that pellet and sort out some better stamp ones as well.

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