How to catch/collect live prawns - My best bass bait
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- Опубліковано 22 гру 2019
- There are few things more satisfying than catching a decent fish on bait you have collected yourself. Here I show you how to make your own prawn traps, and how to use them to catch live prawns. The following video will show me using the live prawns to catch bass - bass absolutely LOVE them!! Also plenty of foraging and catch and cook possibilities!!!
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glad to watch something good whilst the world is going mad nice and calming thanks mate
- It is our pleasure Laurance. Things are getting a little stressful aren't they.
Spot on, Laurance, spot on.
In Greece we used to do a tea towel tied over a bowel, and then cut a circle in the middle. Some olive oil dough was enough bait too!
Brilliant. Thanks again John. Lovin' the 'Blue Peter' trap. SO simple!!
- Haha. Does Blue Peter even exist anymore?
@@thefishlockerworkshop Not sure TBH!! I love the reference ;-)
I really liked the second one.. the bottle trap.. that was very easy and effective way to catch the prawns.
Thanks my dear 👌👍👍👍💐
That's fantastic! I'm going to make one of them and try it out around the local rocks!!!! Would love to do a catch and cook with prawns!!!! Thanks for the upload. Very helpful!!
Go for it! Let us know how you get on 👍🏻👍🏻
Great video on something real and enjoyable.
What a nice idea to cath a live bait prawn..I never think about that.. making a prawn trap with just a bottle..Thank you very much John..Soon I'll try it too
Going to give this a go over the weekend
Thanks John, will let you know what happens
Tight lines and keep it lit.👍
Loving your videos. Great source of information, very clear and fantastic instructions. Just found your channel and can’t wait to try out some of the things you have demonstrated.
- Glad you are finding the videos helpful. ;)
Recently found tour channel pretty much caught up in last two weeks haha .ohhhh my days your are the nuts 🥜.can u please please please bring out a book or something with all e things u says the different species of crab fish lobster sea weed.we need an idiots guide hahaha .amazing work .your changing the world with what you do .
tyre works with holes drilled in it love your videos thank you
What a great idea! I shall try this in the next few weeks! Loads of rock pools in my area!
Excellent I've been told about those plastic bottle type pots I didn't know about fishing them in the side high up but it makes total sense 👍 gonna definitely try that 👍 😀
Cheers John, I’ll show my nipper this one, he’s always making things to catch stuff off the piers in the summer 👍🏻
- It works well for minnows in fresh water you just need more holes and to bait with bread. ;)
My kid would be happy with the prawns,frying pan and garlic butter!
I won't be able to tell her where I set my traps!!! haha!
Hi John. I find cable ties are good for feeding through the holes once lined up. Stiff and pull out easily. Great video! Very informative.
very nice, man.. solid work as always..
DumbestFisherman TV - Thanks mate. 👍🏻
Great content as usual - watching this with sound off - it's a bloody crime what you -tube captions do to your words mate! You have taught me a great deal with these videos cheers.
very good video john
A simple economic solution the bottle is the one for me. Will be making 2/3 for my fishing trip and attach them to the groynes. Straight forward tip that even I can put together. Thank You.
David Bainbridge - It is my pleasure David, I even knock some of these up when we go away on holiday for fresh bait. Bottles are available anywhere. 😊👍🏻
Thank you John and as I have 3 of these type pots I will make the whole much smaller.
Totally cool mate,most bait shops here are still closed because of covid.
I'm still on lockdown,although we are getting there :)
So gonna trash that 2L cola bottle in my recycling bag tonight!
Brill vid,
Keep safe
Thank you for this John, I am returning to fishing after a 7 year hiatus! Fishing in a different part of Ireland and I am looking for places to dig rag, lug and now hopefully get a few shrimp. Looking for advice on how best to hook shrimp/prawn when float fishing. Any help greatly appreciated...
Love your videos
Great content mate
- Thank you very much mate 😊
Good idea my dear friend 👌😘
Thank you,very interesting 🍀😉👍
Top fella . I've seen the pop bottle funnal trap to catch wasps when we was camping
I'll Defford give that a go and if the fish don't bite I'm a happy chappy with prawn 😂
Goodly video, i always have a problem, they are a very good bait and they are very good eating, happy holidays all, tight lines sir
- Thank you very much. Yes I have used this method before when Ive been away on holiday for catching fresh bait. Everywhere you go you can get a plastic bottle. ;)
OH!, You just showed me how to make a fucking minnow trap!!. I used this since I was a kid. Why I not used this in the sea I’ve no idea lol, cheers mate! 👍
Same here! I swear by live prawn as bait but I’ve always gone out with the net, how I forgot about the minnow traps is beyond me, I could have saved a lot of time and energy over the years 😆
To be fair, I do enjoy going out with the net though 🍻
Just discovered your workshop channel. Subbed. Spargos kitchen is a great addition to fishlocker. Thank him for me👍🥖🍛🧂🍅🍷
Again cracking video gone try this on a scear near me
I've pulled them up in crab nets when getting some small crabs in norfolk
awesome!
What size hooks do you use to attach the prawns
What should be placed in the bottle to attrack the pawns in?
Thank you for showing me how to make a fish trap 🐟🦞🦀🐠🦐🦑🐙🐡🏴
love your videos man what do you use in the nets for catching the shrimps
Cheers John
Great vid. You deserve a Blue Peter Badge and a bit of sticky back plastic [ you don't look old enough to remember that TV show ..lol ] Thks
I live at the top of the tidal stretch of the Trent and I reckon that Bass rig would be killer for Barbel if our freshwater shrimps can be mounted on an 8. Whatever the case, I'm having that home made prawn trap, thanks again John.
- It also doubles up as a minnow trap if you bait it with bread. ;)
Russell FitzPatrick you must live near Collingham. I’ve sailed a 60ft river cruiser from Newark to the Humber. It took 2.5 days to get from Farnham to the Humber estuary. There’s some nice fishing around collingham weir, I remember my dad enjoying days fishing there. Have you been to Blyton ponds?
Im in Birmingham so not much water around here. 😘
Wonderful video, Thank you for sharing...seems like it's always raining when you shoot your videos.
Will Hagler - Haha. Welcome to the UK. The land of rain and damp!
Well done.
Michael Blackstock - Thank you Michael. 😊👍🏻
I use two bottles,cut the bottom off one,and cut the top off the other.Push the top inside the other bottle.and remove the lid.Leave the other lid on and drill holes in it.That way you can pour the prawns/minnows out with out a struggle.
I staple the top inside the other bottle.
- Sounds very similar mate, good thinking. Used for minnows I just bait with a little bread. :)
Thanks for sharing this with us I will be trying it soon let you know if it work at Gray's in the River Thames 🖖💯💎🦈🎣😎
High John what time of year is best for trapping pls
Been messing about with this kind of thing for the past couple of years John, I have some footage that has never been used but I plan to do a few more of these sort of vids in the future.
Shore Fishing Essex - I’ll have a good crack with you about it mate, but I’ve got a few new ideas that I’m trying out on this channel. 😉👍🏻🎣
Cheers pal, it's good to branch out & do some different things even if it doesn't get tons of views straight away, I've seen some fairly big channels level off because they keep doing the same thing over & over, some of their best made vids go unseen because people think it's more of the same. It will be interesting to see what you have in store for us in 2020!! Good luck pal.
Hi John - great video as always - can you tell me if prawns are available all along the South Coast - I keep a fishing boat in a marina in Lymington and was thinking that might be a good place to set a home made trap ?
- Yes they can be caught all the way along the coast but its still a little early. Summer time there are more around and they're easier to catch. ;)
@@thefishlockerworkshop thanks John - look forward to the summer then and trying some float fishing for bass in the Solent !
Interesanti interesanti
Just watch this video its brill how do you put them on hook thanks
And if you cut that blue ring around the neck of the bottle in half it won't get stuck around the neck of a fish , eel or my finger . Great stuff mate
Would your prawns need to be alive all the time or can u still use them if they die as bait for bass
I've used live, dead and even frozen prawns. They still work dead but they're not as good frozen I found
Ha haa 🤣 that's the exact same one my brother gave me to use it did catch a crab but like you say you get what you pay for, I adjusted mine a bit and weighted it .
What’s the best time to catch them?
I have a round one and once I caught a conger eel and a lobster
Do you recon I could use them from the boat?
- The pots or the prawns? Prawns are brilliant from the boat as loads of our vides show.
@@thefishlockerworkshop like a bottle trap for the prawns so I could set it then pick it up the next day and have live baits ?
I used this on holiday when place where fishing was banned caught a small fish
- It does work as a minnow trap.
The Fish Locker Workshop my old Mr Crabtree book has similar using a glass bottle for minnows, I think to use as bait for Perch.......brilliant. Nice to eat these prawns as well.....cant see the wife letting me use them for bait
I just put a mackerel head in a bucket and dangle it down the side of a pier/breakwater for half an hour, job done. No crabs either.
But you have to quickly hoist a full bucket of water up the side of a pier! Oh good job mate great advice lol
@@geoffsaunderson5766 You don't have to put it all the way down to the seabed!
Besides you can use a small mesh bin (trash can) if you like.
@@richardjones2811 oh so you don’t put this bucket under the surface of the water? They just jump in it!?
@@richardjones2811 a mesh bin….as apposed to a BUCKET lol ok mate
Hi John, just binge watching some of your previous video, love this simple but effective way of catching prawns. On you videos where you go collect from your live bait pots for crab and lobster, silly question and may sound a bit dumb, but can anyone go fishing in sea, or put their own pots in? or do you have to have a license to fish, there must be hundreds of live bait pots on sea bed. you are so honest when measuring the lobsters, some might go, it's near as damn it, but that is just not you. True honest fisherman that puts fish back and only take what is needed, not be greedy. 👍🙌🦀🦞🦐
Depends where you live I guess,local laws differ between 2 towns 5k's apart here,I'm ok though,as long as I set them on the west side of the harbor wall here,whereas next town down is well strict!
If you walk along a pontoon at night and shine a light into the water to illuminate the pontoon floats, you can see the prawns eyes reflecting the light.
Yes they are much bolder at night and not bothered by lights. Very easy to spot. Ive been amazed how they go in shallow pools.
Amazing, can you show us how to cook them? What did you use as bate?
Howling Wheels Adventures - I have some videos on the other channel showing cooking prawns on a foraging session. The bait was just dead fish. 😉👍🏻
Thank you so much. What is the other channel called?
@@HowlingWheelsAdventures ua-cam.com/channels/nfvGJ1TY-BG6-vzoLU1fSw.html
Why not use the plastic bottle necks, pierce holes around the edges where you’ve cut the bottle, I’ll use a hot screwdriver to pierce bottle to prevent cracking. Cut the plastic bottle necks so that the widest part of the funnel is the same as your collapsible pots. Then sew bottle funnels facing inward to the holes of the collapsible net pots. Harder then for prawns to get put. I use the heavy duty collapsible, and and had nice lobster as well. Some nice prawns there.
- That is something I have seen people do with the heavier duty collapsible pots to convert them for prawns. I don't bother purely because it is a bit of a faff and its frustrating when you spend all that time and come back and a velvet crab has chewed the rest of the pot to bits.
Love your videos, such good content. Always enjoyable and educational! Is there any way you could improve the audio? It is very quiet, so when the ads come on it nearly breaks my speakers! With most software, you can 'normalise' the audio in your editor, so that all the peaks are at 0dB...even add some compression to bring the lowest peaks up a bit too..
OMEGOOLIEBIRD - This is an older video before we had invested in external microphones. It is all a learning process. 😊👍🏻
@@thefishlockerworkshop Oh ok sorry! It has 23 Dec 2019 as the published date? I had not seen it before..
thanks mate, can you catch the prawns during winter also
Adrian Coates - The generally move off into deeper water as it gets cold mate. You can find the odd one but it’s generally outside the tidal zone. 👍🏻
Bought from China,,, there crap, hahaha class, great vidoe and advice
Good effort but I find using a big fish net faster and easier. Drag it along the wall and guarantee to get hundreds within a few mins
Brilliant idea can we put a piece of squid in instead of fish
Hi, do I need a license for this?
i just realized you had a glance of leonardo dicaprio😆😆😆😆
Are you there John? I'd like to go live tonight and make one of the shrimp pots I saw on your video. I'll credit it to you. I'd just like to know if you're ok with it. Would like to do the live at 7pm I tried to message via Instagram but it wouldn't go through.
OR SOLDERING IRON
Just so I'm sure, are the live baits for boat, shore, or both? btw, love your vids, keep em up!
- Both. They work brilliantly well from boat or shore. In fact on the main Fishlocker channel there are 4 or 5 vids where we use live prawns to catch all sorts of fish from bass to rays. ;)
The Fish Locker Workshop cheers for that mate , I just wasn’t sure. Keep up the vids, they’re really educational when it comes to the coast, be that boat and shore fishing, and the foraging and bait finding! Anyways... thanks. Tight lines 🎣🎣
3VO - Any time mate. Tight lines. 😊👍🏻
Aren’t there bigger shrimp? Those would be good in something like pompano or snapper cooked in parchment paper or a creole shrimp remoulade salad
I couldnt feed these to the fish. Id have to eat them hahaha
You use a fish to catch a prawn to catch a rass to catch a bass,does this ever end?
Great white? Orca? lol
I'm a fisherman just thought it's all a bit funny!,I went to tescos spent 20 quid on bait and 20 in the tackle shop and caught nothing 🤣🤣
Do you ever eat these prawns?
Great channel very educational.. But your sound quality is not very good.. Hard to hear or listen .Enjoy your programs though.
Im sure theres a missed joke opportunity here.
Prawns are more delicious than bass.
Im not sure, well i am but these arent prawns as i know them. Shrimps they are.
‘Just throw it in the bin’? Not a great attitude
I'm sure he meant to say 'recycling bin'.
@@andystokes8702 we get fined if they find recyclable items in our garbage bags!
and they do look if suspicious!!!
and I'm all for that :D
There s always one and your it