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Re: Best crab pot bait

Post by scrolllock » 15 Mar 2015, 5:40 pm

Oneshot270 wrote:We use kangaroo tail with skin on for Muddy's now. :D


Cheap to pick those up at a pet store too, sold as food there.
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Post by Kater » 15 Mar 2015, 5:41 pm

Yeah roo meat's easy enough to get :thumbsup:
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Post by tarnagulla » 01 Apr 2015, 3:09 pm

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.
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Post by Redwood » 02 Apr 2015, 9:33 am

Try beef tongue.

The skin on that's like leather and can't be easily pulled. Won't fall apart in water.
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Post by Grated » 02 Apr 2015, 10:46 am

Goes good on a sandwich if you get no crabs either :lol:
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Post by basil brush » 08 May 2015, 9:49 am

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.
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Post by rainwalker » 11 May 2015, 10:46 am

bentaz wrote: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!


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Post by COLLECTOR 1 » 26 May 2015, 11:55 pm

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

will attract them for miles and miles.

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Post by Title_II » 27 May 2015, 12:06 am

Wow, you guys really don;t like cats :D
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Post by Seconds » 27 May 2015, 3:21 pm

Title_II wrote:Wow, you guys really don;t like cats :D


They're a massive problem for native wildlife here.
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Post by Title_II » 28 May 2015, 8:43 am

Seconds wrote:
Title_II wrote:Wow, you guys really don;t like cats :D


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.
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Post by Chickenhawk » 01 Jun 2015, 11:15 am

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