Homemade Prawn pellets

Well, based on the advice on this forum I've finally beaten my skunk! I limited out on prawns on Wednesday in an open area East of Sidney. I have discovered the Genesis Live feature on my Lowrance chart plotter and it is a game changer. I was able to develop a detailed map of an area and find a couple of ledges that didn't really show up on the charts. I think Garmin has a similar feature called quickdraw contours or something like that. Thanks for the advice!
 
After 3 successful tries I can say this works as good or better than the pellets:
4 cups seafood flavour cat food, about 5-6 herring in a blender with 1 cup water, a couple tablespoons of fish sauce, and a good squirt of herring oil. Let it sit overnight in the fridge. Add a little bit of finely chopped herring to the mix. Works great.
 
A-a-Ron said:
After 3 successful tries I can say this works as good or better than the pellets:
4 cups seafood flavour cat food, about 5-6 herring in a blender with 1 cup water, a couple tablespoons of fish sauce, and a good squirt of herring oil. Let it sit overnight in the fridge. Add a little bit of finely chopped herring to the mix. Works great.
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Still way more work than necessary. KISS
 
kaelc said:
What are you doing these days?

Making the above in the kitchen would ensure I continue to get a good sleep, alone for the foreseeable future!
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I use cut up herring mixed with pellets. During the herring sale I cut the crappiest ones into 4 or 5 chunks and mix that with pellets then vac pac into portions big enough to 3/4 fill my 4 bait jars. I'll throw the used bait jars into a zip lock bag and leave it on the boat for 4-5 sets. So I really don't go through a lot of the stuff. If I remeber to do so, I'll sometimes squirt some oil into (or onto) the bait containers right before I drop them.
 
Clams are natural crab food. Crack their shells and stick em in a mesh bag alongside the chicken backs.
 
Regarding the home-made ground prawn bait... although it works for the prawns I also find it seems to attract more of the "little lobster thingy's" as well as those little 'euphasids'? and small crabs. I get less of those when I only use the pellets and cat food.
 
kaelc said:
Thanks guys. I used to use chicken backs but had stopped when I got kid broke. Might have to go back to them and figure out the clam angle!
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There's a Korean grocery store near Burrard Civic that sells bags of them for $2. It's super convenient
 
kaelc said:
Thanks guys. I used to use chicken backs but had stopped when I got kid broke. Might have to go back to them and figure out the clam angle!
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Real butchers produce lots of chicken carcasses, whether within a small grocery store or in a standalone storefront. They're usually happy to sell them cheap.
 
Can confirm the ground prawn heads work. Last go at prawns for 2025 today, so threw about everything in my "stink bucket" in the traps. Prawn heads were the new addition, mixed up with my usual pellets/Carlyle/prawn oil mix. Almost zero squat lobsters, which was a first for me. This was a totally new spot though. Unfortunately it's probably a little too high traffic to go back - a Seaspan barge almost dragged my traps!

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