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Julian Parkin 2

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Dear All

Having spent the last couple of evenings on the Kennet I was plagued by crayfish.

My question is does the presence of crayfish around the bait attract or repell chub and barbel?

Cheers J
 
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Bully

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Given many peeps think both eat them then I doubt they would repel??

I'd be interested to know other thoughts though......
 
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Juan Villar 2

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I've always caught chub and barbel when there are cray about. Doesn't seem to affect them feeding much, just annoying the hell out of me!
 
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Fred Bonney

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The only problem I used to find on the Ouse,because they're not in the Trent.........yet,was you needed to use a tough bait.When the cray twitches stopped, usually, the fish were feeding.
 
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Laurie Harper

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Chub certainly predate on crays, although some of these big signals would probably be a bit too much of a mouthful for a chub of less than record weight... I caught (?) one on the Lea recently that was nearly the size of a small lobster. You'd need a VERY tough bait to keep something like that at bay - something like the rock hard boilies the carp lads use in the big lakes in France.
 
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When fish eat crays it tends to be when they are shedding their shells to grow a bigger one, so they are softer and their claws aren't so sharp.

Thanks Fred. I was finding when the twitches stopped my banded pellet had gone!! Must get them more secure!!
 
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Fred Bonney

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I'm not certain that's the case Julian.

Oh yes,they love the rubber flavour ;o)
 
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