Slugs

[Dunk Fairley]

We all know that slugs are a brilliant bait for Chub, but why do they just not work on some rivers?

 

I'll always catch on rivers like the Darenth, Colne and Kentish Stour, but on the Medway and Len, they don't seem to work. Strange.

 

Also, has anyone found a really good way of keeping them?

[seph]

well well well I was just going to ask if anybody knew how to keep slugs, but i have been beaten to it. So if anyone can help please do

[Zinky]

Fantastic bait when the fish are in the mood.

But try ready stoned Prunes from the Supermarket

they work better and are not so messy never fail to catch the odd carp.

If you get bored just eat them your self.

 

[ 09 July 2002, 10:23 PM: Message edited by: Dragonbat ]

[Dunk Fairley]

I refuse to eat prunes on the grounds that they taste horrible. Before anyone asks, yes I have eaten slugs, not too bad!

[chesters1]

if you want to keep slugs then plant out lots of nice plants they`l find you

[seph]

Come on someone please help. Someone must know the best way to keep slugs. Only need to keep them for probably 24-48 hours.

[Alan Pearce]

Dunk, I have kept slugs fairley well (Scuse the pun) in a big bucket with a lid and air holes. A few inches of fresh soil in the bottom plus some fresh leaves and veg waste/peelings. However it is a messy operationn and needs changing every five or six days and kept cool. I too have found some rivers or areas of rivers more productive than others but where they do work they do work well, not justfor chub but also perch and carp.

 

Alan.

 

[ 10 July 2002, 07:53 PM: Message edited by: Alan Pearce ]

[Martin Salisbury]

According to one of my books it suggests to fatten up your slugs you should cut a hole in a whole melon and let the slugs in and they will fatten thmselves up by eating it all!

 

[ 10 July 2002, 10:27 PM: Message edited by: Martin Salisbury ]

[Vagabond]

Yes, I'd go with that idea - never tried it, but when we have melon and chuck the skins onto the compost heap, the slugs swarm all over them.

 

The badgers in the shaw at the bottom of the garden also love melon skins - they take them slugs and all.

 

[ 11 July 2002, 12:55 AM: Message edited by: Vagabond ]

[Gray-Catchpole]

Dunk

plant some mint in your garden, as well as being a good grower its very nice to have on sunday diner, ours dont get eaten by slugs for some reason but they are always around in the morning.

 

word of warning though, make sure you enclose it, or it will grow every where, the mint we have now is a cutting from my grandad, he died around 1970 and he had the original cutting from his dad, if you want a cutting let me know, pass it on