Setting lobster pots
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Re: Setting lobster pots
A lobster fisherman once told me that he used salted baits for his pots because fresh bait attracts congers and doggies.
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Re: Setting lobster pots
Where are you based?firetiger7 wrote:I got me some lobster pots now and caught a few nice brown and spider crabs already, but I also get tons of dogfish in these pots, even really big ones which I do not enjoy to handle in these small pots at all..
Is mackerel the wrong bait? I use 2-3 of them chopped in half, never leave the pots out longer than a day of fishing.
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Re: Setting lobster pots
I've often supplied a leisure potter with a few Ballan Wrasse they seem to work well for him.
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Specimen Fish 2025: To date: 6.
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