Bait question with a twist

[vifferrider]

I have ordered my bait for the RNLI meet, it will be delivered Friday by courier.

Most of it is fozen, except the Rag and Lug

Normal answer is to store live bait in sea water - but living in Northamptonshite there is not much sea close to hand

So what will be the best way to keep my bait alive until Saturday?

Rich

[squidlips]

keep it wrapped in newspaper in the fridge,but change the paper and remove dead worms

[abuc4]

i just use a bit of wetweed 4 the lug. also in fridge

[damo]

lay out on a tray in the fridge, on top of the wet paper it comes in, with another sheet of the wet paper on top, putting any aside that look iffy, about the best you can do given no water available.
you could put the rag in vermiculite( fine grade ) straight away, but don't use too much, and keep the lug wrapped, as squidlips advised, and try to keep in the cool( baitfridge if available!)

[greysfanboy]

There's no way you need seawater to keep it alive a day or two. If kept cool, worms will stay alive for weeks just in newspaper (and a bit of bladder wrack or other weed is good for ragworm).

[codlingchaser]

greys, no way keep lug for weeks, i wish!!!!

[greysfanboy]

Yeah sorry ragworm are much hardier, but I've kept blow lug alive in newspaper only four 4-5 days as long as they are cool.

[codlingchaser]

four or five days good mate!!
iv lost them in less time than that bloody things ha ha
all the codling being caught around my bit of essex falling to squid!!!
most unusual
keep fishing mate, get the big one
cheers
neil

[fishhook]

If travelling long distance by car with my bait in summer i use a refridgerated cool box. Put a couple of freezer blocks in the bottom, frozen bait on top of that, keeping worms and crabs to the top.

Plug the cool box into the cigareete lighter and away you go

www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3401101/Trail/searchtext>COOL+BOXES.htm

I got mine off a well known, on line auction site

[greysfanboy]

I bet that canes the battery!

[pjl83]

Oct 22, 2008 21:01:56 GMT @greysfanboy said:

I bet that canes the battery!

i've got a smaller one that i used to keep my dinner in on site in the summer.

had it plugged in from 8 til 1 everyday. battery never suffered. good little thing to have these.

[dytiscus]

i'm not touching this question with a barge pole