Love th bait shop

[Wolfdog91 7,206]

One if my favorite things to do since I was a little kid was to go to the bait shop in town. Had to come into today because some crap happen d and my 100gal bait tank now has a ince if water in it so Ineed to get some water treatment and some extra odds and ends. Same folks been owning it since I could remember and man it's just something about buying stuff outta there instead of Walmart that just makes it so much better.

[hambone 950]

16 hours ago, Wolfdog91 said:

One if my favorite things to do since I was a little kid was to go to the bait shop in town. Had to come into today because some crap happen d and my 100gal bait tank now has a ince if water in it so Ineed to get some water treatment and some extra odds and ends. Same folks been owning it since I could remember and man it's just something about buying stuff outta there instead of Walmart that just makes it so much better.

We got something like that last pic. They are called pet shops 

[mackem 26,861]

21 minutes ago, W. Katchum said:

I’d love to spend a few hours looking about that shop an talking crap with owners

Been in a few, always find some bits'n'bobs that you wouldn't find in the UK, real mom'n'pop family businesses with interesting local knowledge owners. 

[mackem 26,861]

2 minutes ago, W. Katchum said:

What more could you ask for gonna order a couple of cast nets for me an kids to practice an play with, summat iv always fancied trying an now my lads have saw it in tele an asked if it really worked, so we gonna have a bash

CAST NETS they work VERY well

[Wolfdog91 7,206]

12 minutes ago, mackem said:

Been in a few, always find some bits'n'bobs that you wouldn't find in the UK, real mom'n'pop family businesses with interesting local knowledge owners. 

Mean like a bow fishing bundle ?

[mackem 26,861]

7 minutes ago, W. Katchum said:

It will pass a few hours of laughs with kids if nowt else mate an maybe even teach them summat

I first saw a cast-net used in Dal Lake years ago, a subsistence fisherman catching loads of small fish with a hand-made net, the first one I owned I got from the states, just checked the local cabela's have them in

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2 minutes ago, Wolfdog91 said:

Mean like a bow fishing bundle ?

Yes, just random shit like frog-gigs and muskrat traps, weird stuff that most of us find super interesting

[Wolfdog91 7,206]

Honestly feel like most UK guys would be horrified walking into a US bait shop I can hear it now" No boilles ? All these hooks have barbs ! What's with all these fish this I let shop ? LIVE BAIT ?!!! WHO IN THERE RIGHT MIND USES LIVE BAIT! what do you mean you don't sell bivies ? WHERE THE BLOODY F@#K ARE THE UNHOOKING MATS!" followed by incoherent rambling, a seizure and falling to the floor foaming at the mouth

 

[Wolfdog91 7,206]

8 minutes ago, mackem said:

I first saw a cast-net used in Dal Lake years ago, a subsistence fisherman catching loads of small fish with a hand-made net, the first one I owned I got from the states, just checked the local cabela's have them in

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Yes, just random shit like frog-gigs and muskrat traps, weird stuff that most of us find super interesting

Hay ! Frogs are delicious!

[Wolfdog91 7,206]

24 minutes ago, W. Katchum said:

What more could you ask for gonna order a couple of cast nets for me an kids to practice an play with, summat iv always fancied trying an now my lads have saw it in tele an asked if it really worked, so we gonna have a bash

You'll love cast netting! Especially once you learn how to do it one handed ! Even used to use mine to catch ducks and chickens when they got out

[mackem 26,861]

Just now, Wolfdog91 said:

Hay ! Frogs are delicious!

I used to get them from wanchai wet-market, eaten them in a few countries, there was even a fish and chip shop in Pennywell in North-East England sold them, nice to be honest, I ain't a food snob, I would eat a scabby horse. 

[jackthelad 1,894]

1 hour ago, W. Katchum said:

I’d love to spend a few hours looking about that shop an talking crap with owners

We where barred from every fishing shop in glasgow haha hardy bags Barbour jackets all the best rapalas them was the days ..... can u mind crockets the ironmongers got rattled wassny a shooter or fishing hook left in the place .... tweet tweet don 

[hambone 950]

3 hours ago, Wolfdog91 said:

Honestly feel like most UK guys would be horrified walking into a US bait shop I can hear it now" No boilles ? All these hooks have barbs ! What's with all these fish this I let shop ? LIVE BAIT ?!!! WHO IN THERE RIGHT MIND USES LIVE BAIT! what do you mean you don't sell bivies ? WHERE THE BLOODY F@#K ARE THE UNHOOKING MATS!" followed by incoherent rambling, a seizure and falling to the floor foaming at the mouth

 

Live baits are frowned upon for some species (maybe banned) but are used for others.   

[South hams hunter 8,924]

5 hours ago, Wolfdog91 said:

Honestly feel like most UK guys would be horrified walking into a US bait shop I can hear it now" No boilles ? All these hooks have barbs ! What's with all these fish this I let shop ? LIVE BAIT ?!!! WHO IN THERE RIGHT MIND USES LIVE BAIT! what do you mean you don't sell bivies ? WHERE THE BLOODY F@#K ARE THE UNHOOKING MATS!" followed by incoherent rambling, a seizure and falling to the floor foaming at the mouth

 

Not in sea angling, all the bait we use is proper bait ... live worms, crabs,prawns and frozen fish if we can't get live 

[fireman 10,932]

15 hours ago, W. Katchum said:

What more could you ask for gonna order a couple of cast nets for me an kids to practice an play with, summat iv always fancied trying an now my lads have saw it in tele an asked if it really worked, so we gonna have a bash

Get a 4 ft one to start off with,i have one and a brilliant thing it is to.Took me half hour to get the real suss of it and it's small enough to cast just about anywhere yet big enough to catch small fish for live baiting for Bass (sea bass),a old member on here " Richie" gave it me and he had a Brazilian wife who's family use them regular and if your reading this Richie from afar hope all is good in life mate?.. Recon with a bit of savy you'd catch a covey of partridges with one to as well as like wolfdog says ducks chickens etc, i have just remembered a fella who boat fishes local to where i boat fish and he uses a big net to collect makerel when they have been pushed to the surface by Bass etc..

[mackem 26,861]