leather jackets for bait?
- Chubman
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leather jackets for bait?
digging some garden borders i came across some leather jacket casters, larvie of crane fly i think, anyone used them as bait?
- Santiago
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Re: leather jackets for bait?
They're great for chub!
"....he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy"
Hemingway
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Re: leather jackets for bait?
I heartily concur... when I was a spotty yoof I used to go fishing and acquire my bait by the age old method of **** kicking... brandlings, leather jackets, slugs, snails, lobs.... anything....!
Just one more cast love, and I'll be on me way home
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Re: leather jackets for bait?
I have caught good Perch on them in the past - haven’t used them now for an age.
Peter
Peter
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