prawns or shrimp for bait?

[goldfish17]

can you use prawns or shrimp for bait and do you have to boil them first and what species can you catch

[nige]

you can use them but not cooked.

[goldfish17]

ive heard that they have a stinger is that true and how do you put them on the hook without them falling off during the cast

[red]

i used them last year and had laods of whiting on them, some keepers too. i used to buy a bag of mixed sea food from lidls and just bind a load of different bits onto a 2/0 hook.

[simplywabs]

If the prawns or shrimp is fresh, you don't have to worry about it falling off when you cast.

[fishermannum1]

i use them a lot, the small cooked ones from lidls work well off rocks and piers on a float. the larger uncooked ones work well for doggies and thornies from the beach...

[Drew]

Used live shrimps tail hooked for Wrasse, Deadly! But you only get one shot at hooking them as the rip the Shrimp off easily...

[dave316]

live, fresh or cooked they all work

[grady]

lads are right,they good anywhere and for most of spesies, i'h cought 3 nice rockling on TESCO king prawns last friday and good bit of coallies too.

[matthawkins]

Ive never used cooked but have seen live prawn catch thornies in the UK. Not sure if they work here.
Have also heard live prawn or shrimp can be deadly off rocks for wrasse but not tried myself.

[evan699]

I picked up a bag of uncooked prawns in the oriental cash and carry in cork and used them to target whiting with great success. I used them a few more times after that and they always worked a treat. Shell them and bind them to the hook with bait elastic. Never tried live shrimp but i've heard good things so i will be trying them for wrasse when the season starts to pick up a bit. Easy pickings from the rock pools so why not give it a shot.

[nobuzz]

Cooked prawns from Tescos is my stand-by bait for when I fancy a session but haven't planned ahead.

Don't use the "coldwater/freshwater prawns" they are too soft and tend to break up when being put on the hook. The other types are much hardier.

Peeled prawns tend to be coma-shaped therefore difficult to thread on to an Aberdeen. What I do is cut the prawn into 3 pieces and thread them individually onto the hook, either 2,3 or 4 pieces per hook depending on size.

I've had lots of wrasse on cooked prawns.

I have 2 packs of raw peeled prawns (Tescos again) in the freezer which I'm going to try asap.

[husshunter]

I use shrimp all the time but only for salmon fishing never used them in the sea .I collect them fresh boil them 2 minutes then run under cold water or they cook in their shell then dye them and keep them in a salty brine to preserve them best salmon bait out there

[byq44]

its best bait but hard tu buy uncooked

[red]

i gutted a codling the other night and it had a good few shrimp in its stomach

[markh]

have used uncooked prawns and had a few wrasse with them