Fish oil baits

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#1 Post by **alancooper** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:49 pm

I have seen bottles of fish oil, lugworm oil and others for sale. Has anyone any idea how it is used? Is there a way to make hook bait more attractive with it? - or even an artificial material that would soak it up and release it when on a hook in the sea?
alan.

#2 Post by **contender** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:44 am

Tried a few of these oils myself. Thought they where just a waste of money. But if you want to use them you can just spray some on the bait before casting or inject the bait with some.

#3 Post by **alancooper** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:27 pm

Ah - inject. That explains a lot - I remember seeing a man in a moored cruiser on LoughErne last year doing something with a hypodermic needle and a sauseage!
Thanks for the advice.
alan.

#4 Post by **EoinMag** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:38 pm

You can get syringe sets in the angling shops with suitably wide bore canules, the oil is extremely thick on a beach in the middle of winter.
You can also use it to inject air into the body cavity of a dead bait to make it pop up off the bottom.

#5 Post by **alancooper** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:22 pm

Thanks - this will save me from using the old ones round the back of the supermarket.