leather jackets for bait?

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Chubman
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leather jackets for bait?

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digging some garden borders i came across some leather jacket casters, larvie of crane fly i think, anyone used them as bait?
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They're great for chub!
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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....! :Thumb: :Hat:
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Re: leather jackets for bait?

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I have caught good Perch on them in the past - haven’t used them now for an age.
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