Black slugs

[chuby]

Graham,did you actually use the slugs from off the S**t

I must be honest I havn't used em (wimp),but my mate really rates em.

Chuby.

[John S]

Graham X:

Graham X:

How well do they hold up when hooked? (slugs that is, not chub)

They've got a sort of oval-shaped callous (can't remember the proper term) on their backs, which is tougher than the rest of their skin, and which is the place to hook them. They hold up really well.

I think it's called the Saddle, and yep, that is where you hook them

 

Tight lines

[kendo]

I once had a 4lb common on a black slug.

[Lid]

quote:

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How well do they hold up when hooked? (slugs that is, not chub)

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I've used loads of slugs and never hook them through the saddle.

 

I hook them with a size 4 about 10mm from the tail downwards (towards the head) and back out again. I have often caught more than one chub on the same slug. The best was last summer when I had seven chub on the same slug!! There wasn't much of the slug left by then.

 

I find any slug works well, black, brown, light brown, etc.

[kendo]

do pink ones with orange dots work?

[Liamsm]

Hi Kentar,

You could try pickling them!.

 

Or salt drying them. Salt dried minnows are a deadly bait.

 

 

.........Liam

[The Diamond Geezer]

My personal permanent solution to always having a slug to hand as a bait is this

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A hand-made job carved from a piece of balsa-wood. I've also found that a Shakespeare Little S, painted black all-over, works equally well, for perch and pike as well as chub

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DG

 

[ 02. May 2004, 09:52 AM: Message edited by: The Diamond Geezer ]

[tony jolley]

anyone ever caught eels on slugs, I have tried them a few times but no result.

I have heard of eels being caught on slugs but not by anyone I have fished with, well maybe one but I'm not too sure wether to believe him.

[kentar]

Pickle them.Hmmm.What in?

What about glugging them in some flavour?

Or do you think the pesky rascals will drink it?

Thanks for all the replies.

[Newt]

They will certainly try to drink some alcoholic items. An old standard method for getting rid of lots of them is to put a shallow dish in the ground with beer in it. Next morning you will find it full of dead slugs.