Steve Brand
Senior Member
Has anyone used or had any success using shrimps as bait either pink or brown shrimps shell on or shelled?
I ask becauce In the eighties myself and a few friends fished the Trent at long Higgin and I clearly remember a local guy fishing the stretch who used shrimps as bait and was renowned for catching quality fish and shrimps were the only bait that he used in fact he was known as shrimpy.
Apparently the shrimps that he used were not those used for human consumption but were sold as pet food.
This was at a time when the trent was heavily match fished and this stretch was popular for matches the river at that time ran coloured pretty much all the time with suspended sewage effluent.
I am considering trying natural baits on the trent with cockles, mussels, and shrimps or crayfish tails being the baits I intend using.
Are there still lots of water snails In the trent I recall reeling In when fishing the stick float with these quite large snails impaled on the hook probably three quarters of an inch In diameter.
I ask becauce In the eighties myself and a few friends fished the Trent at long Higgin and I clearly remember a local guy fishing the stretch who used shrimps as bait and was renowned for catching quality fish and shrimps were the only bait that he used in fact he was known as shrimpy.
Apparently the shrimps that he used were not those used for human consumption but were sold as pet food.
This was at a time when the trent was heavily match fished and this stretch was popular for matches the river at that time ran coloured pretty much all the time with suspended sewage effluent.
I am considering trying natural baits on the trent with cockles, mussels, and shrimps or crayfish tails being the baits I intend using.
Are there still lots of water snails In the trent I recall reeling In when fishing the stick float with these quite large snails impaled on the hook probably three quarters of an inch In diameter.