An excellent video by sea angling guru Alan Yates. Peeler crab is the top bait for shore fishing in the United Kingdom. This video gives tips on how to find, keep, prepare and fish with peeler crabs.
The peeler crab has immense pulling power and will draw fish from far and wide to feed on them. [...]
Lugworm
Only One Type Of Lugworm ?
For many years when you read a typical guide to the sea shore there appeared various pictures of marine worms usually with a picture of a lugworm with the Latin name “Arenicola marina”. The better books also mentioned a tail-less type of lugworm “Arenicolides ecaudata”. What was [...]
White Ragworm.
With the amount of effort and time involved in digging white ragworm it is essential that you keep it in tip top condition until you require it for use. The times when you require your white ragworm may be well into the future but with a few simple steps it will [...]
Top 10 Cod Fishing Baits
Peeler Crab – The Number 1 Cod bait.
1. Number 1 bait whilst fishing for cod on the north east coast has to be the peeler crab. One, Two or even Three common shore or velvet peeler crabs whipped onto a 5 or 6 ° hook with elasticated cotton [...]
Collecting Peeler Crab
Finding Peeler Crabs On The Shore
So many times I hear people say they went peelering but were unable to find any peeler crab. What instantly comes to mind for me is that they were likely looking in the wrong area. On the shoreline of the open sea (this does not [...]
Keeping Peeler Crabs.
This article will cover the fairly untouched subject of keeping peeler crabs in tanks using filtered sea water which reduces the work necessary to keep healthy crabs to use for your bait. I love fishing with Peeler crabs and it is one of the countries top fishing baits for [...]
Freezing Peeler Crabs – By Ian Alexander
Firstly I bring my crabs on until they are just starting to “split” as in the photo. I only peel good crab, any that are dead I throw away and any that have “hairy” legs are also discarded. “Hairy” legs is when you snap the leg from a dead [...]
A new bye law has been introduced by the north eastern sea fisheries committee (NESFC) under which individuals must now have a permit to be able to collect velvet crabs for use as bait.
Members of the Whitby fishing forum are astounded by the new law and have expressed deep concern at the withdrawal of [...]
