Limpets

Advantages: Free, easily accessable - normally right next to your feet.
Disadvantages: Hard to get off rocks. Not nice slipping a knife around the insides of the shell. They don't work very well.

...his job to find lady limpets and make babies, in the hope that one day his limpet race would rule the World!! With the evil streak that flickered in his eye, who would have bet against it?! In my eyes, the human races saviour came in the form of a hairy bloke called Roger. Roger was a caveman who one day discovered that the limpet actually made plausible bait for catching fish on. << It was 1,000 years after Limpy’s first bit of rumpy-pumpy ...
...Town when he noticed the limpets trying to eat his trousers. “Get away from me!!” he yelled. Picking up a seagull feather, he spent the next hour trying to beat away the onward march of trouser eating shell things. Shelled carcasses slumped away in to rock pools where the gobies had a field day devouring them a piece at a time. Finally, he was victorious. As a nail in the coffin, he slipped 3 medium sized limpets (after expertly running ... Read review

Advantages: Strong Scent, Readily available, Free
Disadvantages: Soft, Die Quickly

...Here is a list of other baits to try fishing with:- 1. Mussels. 2. Cockles. 3. Sand clams (White). 4. Limpets. 5. Winkles. 1. Mussels are found plentiful on roacks either just below the mean highwater mark (a mark even on the small tides that is covered by water), orsheltered gullies. They are a soft bait and care should be taken when opening them because a knife is required and also the shell it self is very sharp when broken. Inside you will find a soft fleshy part and a harder tougher foot, this is the place to put the hook through (twice if you can). Plaice are a fish that spend alot of their time cruising around the mussel beds looking for food and go mad for a freshly presented mussel, try tipping with a very small piece of Mackeral to keep it on the hook and also use a small amount of bait elastic. Cheap bait... Read review

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