Roach Live bait.

[sam-cox]

Sometimes live baits are very hard to come by, the mackeral shoals can be broken up by gales, the pout move away from your favorite mark.

I have a solution roach, a nice size roach say half a pound gently nicked through the neck with a 6/0.

The salt water would eventually kill the roach, but its my gess that its death throws would last up to half an hour, thats enough time to atract a bass.

for a 8 hour day you would only need 16 roach.

If roach are hard to come by any small caurse fish could do, chub, carp so on.

[Guest conger tamer]

PERFECT!!!

[DJMCJERICO]

I bet a nice half pound mullet would be a cracking bait for Pike

[ben88]

DJMCJERICO:

I bet a nice half pound mullet would be a cracking bait for Pike

[sam-cox]

Ive caught pike on mullet, and whitting, pout, and pour cod.

[Salar]

I used to do very well swapping my by-catch of pouting with a local tackle shop who would bag them up and freeze them to sell for pike bait. I never knew it was illegal to sell my catch, or maybe it wasn't back then. Every now and then I'd cash in my pouting credits for tackle. Apprently some very good pike were caught on my pouting.

[sam-cox]

if you caught the pout from the shore there is no probs.

[flattiefanatic]

Must be a great feeling knowing that your vaccuum packed discards did the business for someone else

[sam-cox]

two winters ago i caught 3 pike around 20lb, 2 on live gold fish purchased from my local pet shop.

The shop keeper asked my where I planned on keeping them, he gave me a funny look when i told him,,in a bucket mate, im using them for bait.

[Bennythe BAITfish]

How about using small mammals - puppies for example