Catching Prawns For Bass Fishing Bait Made Simple

Prawns as Bass Fishing Bait is abit of a cheat code when the conditions are right but they're also a great hook bait for a number of other species such as Wrasse, Pollack and Smoothhounds to name a few.
Fished under a float or on a running ledger they are easy to use and if you know how and where also EASY to catch.
Now I have limited mobility, if you're reading this as a first time viewer the clue is in the name "The Amputee Angler" so for me using a push net or foraging about in the rock pools for them is simply a non starter. So I catch them using a drop net OR at times a prawn trap in my local harbour and creeks here at Newhaven East Sussex.
Simply baited and left for a short period of time you have all the Prawns and Shrimps you need and all without getting wet or slipping on dangerous rocks in chest high wader and welly boots.
In this video I show you the modified drop nets and traps I use to catch my bait.
Thank you for checking it out if you do and please hit the like or more if you're feeling generous it really helps the video.
Ben
The Amputee Angler
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[@PortugueseAngler]

They are perfect for flout fishing… 👌🏼🎣

[@theamputeeangler]

Yeah I love them for Bass on the float they’re hard to beat!

[@richardgould240]

Thanks as always Ben for sharing your fishing knowledge.

[@theamputeeangler]

Any time! It’s what I enjoy doing mate

[@mikelong8898]

Well presented, top work on the litter pick too! 👏

[@theamputeeangler]

Thanks Mike Appreciate it 👌🏻

[@mickypeckett1959]

Check out the fish Locker prawn traps? Based on the funnel idea but using Coke bottles.

[@theamputeeangler]

Yeah that’s the old school way of doing them my grandma showed me how to do that as a kid but they’re are fine in a marina but too light in any tide that’s why the bigger traps work but the drop nets out fish them massively and are much easier 👌🏻

[@SouthysFishing]

Nice video mate, be good to see traps vs drop nets in like 1hr haul

[@theamputeeangler]

That’s next up mate 😉 thanks for watching dude appreciate it

[@carperblue]

Love a gin net session, well done on the litter collection and example setting buddy

[@theamputeeangler]

Cheers buddy appreciate that. Hope you’re good?

[@carperblue]

@@theamputeeangler my pleasure, yes mate, enjoying myself must not grumble

[@theamputeeangler]

@carperblue lovely grass carp the other day too, was that local? No somthing I have ever had them!

[@carperblue]

@@theamputeeangler yes mate Hailsham Mushroom farm main lake there’s a few in there but you need to pick them out and avoid where possible the commons , they swim faster, feed differently and often the darker dorsal thin gives them away. Like jaws 🤣. Get a still day and feed the lake for a while they will turn up, just don’t start fishing till you see them and don’t get too tempted by the commons

[@theamputeeangler]

@carperblue nice one thank you! Been following that page for ages as they say you can drive up but it’s been to boggy the last few months so I haven’t bothered as walking in knee deep mud isn’t my thing 😂
I shall give it a go next week appreciate the advice mate

[@Kernow-lerf]

Just found your channel bud liked and subbed

[@theamputeeangler]

Evening matey, thanks for doing that and sticking around i appreciate it honestly! Plenty to catch up on if you’re new too 💪🏻

[@Kernow-lerf]

Could you share details of the chap who hand builds your prawn drop nets

[@theamputeeangler]

@Kernow-lerf Next time I see him I shall ask what the score is 💪🏻

[@bobbob6725]

I got a cheap crab net of temu (one of the long cylindrical ones) 4£ I think, best 4£ ever spent for free bait :)

[@theamputeeangler]

Yeah it doesn’t have to be all fancy pants by any stretch 🙏🏻

[@bobbob6725]

​@@theamputeeangler they do the job until you get a conger in there making a mess of it 😂

[@theamputeeangler]

@bobbob6725 Those things will destroy anything 😂