Best crab pot bait

[Kater]

What works for you? What doesn't?

Discuss.

[Westy]

CATS!!!!!!!!

[AusC]

Just don't use anything soft that will fall apart quickly or they can easily walk away with.

[cooker]

Chicken wings.

The rubbery skin and tendons stop them getting it too easily.

[on_one_wheel]

Lots of thing work well, I normally use Grunters that I catch by the dosen while going for sand whiting.

The best crab bait is carp.

[Noisydad]

Christine Milne?

[brett1868]

We used to buy the chicken carcass from the butchers they generally sold for soup. Worked real well and being mostly bones made it easy to tie into the pot with some light wire. Failing that, there's a ginger cat round my place I've been trying to hit with the car, you're welcome to have it once I nail it with a Bridgestone.

[KWhorenet]

Christine Milne?

If you can get her to shut up and stop blowing hot air bubbles

[Westy]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The Crabs would have to go around Licking their asses for a week to get the bad taste outta their mouths if you used her!!!!!

[Guliver]

Rabbit heads work well.

[Streamline]

Christine Milne?

No we're trying to attract things here.

[sha]

The rubbery skin and tendons stop them getting it too easily.

Rabbit would work too I'm sure. Any meat with some hide/skin to keep it together.

[Mr.x]

Chicken frames work well and cheap too just 50c each from my butcher, need some thing with plenty of oil in it and the fresher the better !

[Seconds]

^^^^^^

Chicken frame with a wire through the ribs isn't going anyway.

And a good dunk in tuna oil before you sink it.

[Die Judicii]

Dunno bout "crabs",, as in salt water variety,,

But the best Yabby bait I've ever used is Horse meat.

[Kater]

Where would you buy horse meat if you didn't have horses yourself getting knackered?

Pet food?

[anthillinside]

Dunno bout "crabs",, as in salt water variety,,

But the best Yabby bait I've ever used is Horse meat.

I'd agree.
Only ever went after Yabbys in the farm dams, dead meat, rabbit calf chook the deader the better

[Oneshot270]

Best thing we ever used was Donkey but they're a bit hard to come by nowa days. We use kangaroo tail with skin on for Muddy's now.

[scrolllock]

We use kangaroo tail with skin on for Muddy's now.

Cheap to pick those up at a pet store too, sold as food there.

[Kater]

Yeah roo meat's easy enough to get

[tarnagulla]

Carp are popular with professional cray fishers. There used to be a bloke around here with a licence to "electro-fish" for them, he then shipped them to SA by the truck-load.

[Redwood]

Try beef tongue.

The skin on that's like leather and can't be easily pulled. Won't fall apart in water.

[Grated]

Goes good on a sandwich if you get no crabs either

[basil brush]

I use chicken pieces.
I wrap it up in gauze as well. The crabs seem to luv it.

Anyway it will last a few days but by god it stinks after that.

[rainwalker]

the little cans of homebrand tuna flavoured cat food, just stab a bunch of holes in it with a knife, crabbs cant steal it and the smell leaks out for ages, they are cheap as and if you're going away for a while you don't have to stink up or waste beer space in the esky!

Sounds like a good idea

[COLLECTOR 1]

Carp.............big fat ugly smelly carp.....

will attract them for miles and miles.

collector 1

[Title_II]

Wow, you guys really don;t like cats

[Seconds]

Wow, you guys really don;t like cats

They're a massive problem for native wildlife here.

[Title_II]

Wow, you guys really don;t like cats

They're a massive problem for native wildlife here.

They can be pests here as well, probably not like that, though. I'm OK with a house cat but 10 feral cats are a big problem. Or if they pee on my front door. I don't know if there is a kitty heaven but I know they don't send finders fees.

[Chickenhawk]

We have something like 15 million feral cats that kill an average of 17 native animals a day each.