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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Redlands CA
Posts: 871
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chicken as lobster bait.
Anybody try it.I need a good cheap bait.I dont have my usual tuna scraps this year.
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 1,509
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#3 |
Rum Pirate
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Wilds of Mira Mesa
Posts: 388
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Look for whatever is fresh and cheap at Ranch 99.
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#4 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: pt loma
Posts: 101
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Do spanish mackies work for hooping?
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#5 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Riverside
Posts: 108
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I found salmon heads at the local market for $.49 per lb. 20 bucks goes a long way at that price and they always have it.
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2008
Location: La Jolla
Posts: 189
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Think about what our lobster eat on a normal day...anything that dies and falls to the sea floor. What dies and falls to the seafloor the most in our area? Macs, bonito, YT, etc. Do chickens? No, but they still work as do salmon. Basically, if it stinks, or is oily or both, and the bugs are crawling, they will try to eat it. They are scavengers after all. I have found that fresher the fish the better. Just because bugs scavenge, doesn't mean they like rotten stuff. Also, if it's too rotten it will fall apart too quickly underwater. Willy |
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#7 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: San Carlos
Posts: 202
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Just remember a few things when hooping. The bugs smell (I am not a scientist so I dont know EXACTLY how its done) their way to food. So you want a nice oily food item in there. I know guys that put cat food in their traps because of the oils in it. Never worked that great for me (tried it a few times), but it has worked for others. Buddy of mine also takes ground up fish parts (mostly trimmings that he gets from a restaurant), stuffs it in a pvc that has holes drilled all throughout it, caps the ends and freezes them till he is ready to use em. When you drop the PVC traps down, the oil slick it makes is amazing, but the one down fall is that if the bugs cant get a meal, they move on. We combined the PVC with a bait cage and seemed to do a bit better.
I have never used chicken, except when crabbing on the east coast off docks growing up. Dropped a cage next to a dock (structure) and played the waiting game just like we do out here for bugs.
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