Thanks for your reply. I should have done a forum search before I asked. Got the info I need. CheersThis has come up before. The pink ones you buy from the supermarket are apparently cooked. Perch love them. So do other fish.
They are the only bait I know which you can eat if you feel peckish!
I'm rather partial myself! They are the only bait I know which you can eat if you feel peckish!
I've never found a definitive answer to this, I reckon go with what you feel like and experiment.
I've read they Must be cooked, I've read they Must be raw and unpeeled, and I've read that frozen peeled and cooked prawns are glazed in something to preserve them and that they should be avoided at all cost as Perch dislike this coating!
Personally and depending on availability over their cooked counterparts I would go with raw and un-peeled, after all Perch eat crayfish and the hard shell might deter undesirables although I doubt it in many cases, it might ward off the smaller stuff though.
Might be worth giving it a really slow twitch every now and again.
I plan to have a bit of a foray into prawns as I've never done that well on them despite my pb for many years being caught on one and I put that lack of success more down to me than the bait and I'm quite looking forward to a bit of a concentrated effort with the various different offerings.
Bread, sweetcorn, luncheon meat/Spam, etc?
I have been that hungry that even bolies started to look appetizing....
Tiger nuts do look oddly appetizing- Good shout !
I have not had much success with prawns, but I am not sure that is more about me than the prawns. Last time I went after perch I took prawns but also used worms. Everything likes worms! First cast and I hooked a fish immediately but it wasn't a perch. I caught my first pike! The rest of the day I spent trying to catch perch on prawn and blanked!
On the subject of eating bait, the fish don't get much of a look-in at the Meatsters ( Aldi's version of Peperami). Those things are very moreish! In fact, after starting to buy them a bait, we now buy them as part of the weekly shop.
Ralph