Peeler Crab

[Mark26]

Hi Guys.

I wonder if.Any one knows of a Bait Collector or Tackle shop.Im looking for an 100 peeler.Reason I ask.I have a week booked in Selsey. After the Hounds and my main Supplier As nothing.Worth a shot.

Thanks Mark

[Wight Magic]

Have you tried hard backs they sometimes work better than peelers and much easier to get?

[Mark26]

Thanks Wight Magic.

Unfortunatly Time is of the essence.Dont have a lot of time to collect.Work,fish,work,fish.Lol.Going to have to send the wife and kids out on a.who can find the most crabs day.lol

Thanks again.

[mw]

Put a crab net with some fish in it at poole quay have a pint in the pub within half an hour in will be full mark

[great white]

Try baits r us

 

Good news they are in portsmouth, 02392 661222

 

If they do not have peelers ask about hermits, when I lived in pompey thats what we used at selsey for the hounds

[Mark26]

Thanks Guys.

I will try Baits r us.If no peeler. Hermits it is.

Much appreciated

Mark

[Jim]

Should have gone to Stone Henge for the Summer Solstice

Hermits, Druids, and all sorts of wierdos ( fantastic bait for great whites )

Or chop them up for Tope & Smoothies 

 

 

Jim

[Maverick Martin]

But if you went there Jim you would have to avoid the Peelers   I know I know 

 

Seriously I have always (read as the few times I have specifically fished for smoothies) used hermits and they have always worked

[Rob]

I've had good success on frozen hermits!! Pretty cheap!

[Newboy]

Should have gone to Stone Henge for the Summer Solstice

Hermits, Druids, and all sorts of wierdos ( fantastic bait for great whites )

Or chop them up for Tope & Smoothies 

 

 

Jim

In the old days you can catch crabs too.

[rich185]

Probably not as productive as the crabs but we use squid for the smoothounds and seems to work well to.

 

rich

[Mark26]

Thanks for all your Responses,Got it sorted now.

[Neal]

 I would suggest hardbacks - which can be found at Selsey and alongside the groins in Bracklesham Bay with squid as a good back up.

 

The smoothhound's used to go mad for Hermit crabs - which inhabit the whelk shells throughout the area to the east of the Isle of Wight - however - the whelks were completely fished out (sold mostly abroad!) and so altered the eco-system and the hounds needed to find another food source. Hence most are caught these days on squid baits as they don't know what hermit crabs taste like!

 

I believe the whelks are starting a very slow but fragile recovery as fishing boats no-longer target them commercially - yet!

[Swainiac]

Are they still putting empty whelk shells back in thes ea Neal??

[Mike Fox]

I was told the other week that one boat in Poole lands a tonne of whelks a day, worth about £600. I thought it sounded good until I dscovered it covered 3 crew, plus gear, plus boat running costs, and realised with weather implications plus the persistent smell, it might not be THAT high a quality of life.

 

Mike

[Kingfisher 126]

Now you know why some go poaching !!!!!!!!!

[Sea Legs]

Recently spent some time on Round Island and was surprised at the number of boats dredging with no registration whatsoever.

[great white]

I lived in Pompey when the big storm hit in 87

 

the hermits, slipper limpets and whelks were washed up stacked high dead on every beach.

 

Up to that point the fishing had been great, after it was very poor. we moved to Poole not long after that.

 

9 years ago I booked a trip for Sam's birthday after the hounds on one of the top Langstone Boats , the skipper told me that the shellfish had never recovered from that storm, hermit pots were a thing of the past as there is nothing to catch.

[dicky]

i have fished charters out of langstone for over 25 years and we always used to pick up a pot on the way out stuffed full of hermits. we were certainly getting hermits after 87 but it's probably 10 or more years since we picked any pots up.

i was told by a skipper that the commercial whelkers weren't allowed to take the shells back out to sea so the hermits had nothing to live in. don't know if thats true but it would explain the lack of hermits.