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Frozen crab baits can give you a big edge during the late winter months when it will outfish worm baits, especially over rougher ground. Cod in particular respond well to it, and it also proves a consistent taker of coalfish, dogfish, flounders and bass. You don’t read about it in the magazines much, but try frozen peeler for summer and autumn ballan and cuckoo wrasse from the deep water rock marks as it often outfishes fresh.

Crab is so effective because of the amount of scent it gives off when cut. This is the key to getting more bites “use cut crab sections, not whole crabs”. For smaller fish like flounders, simply cut through the middle of the crab body, slide this over the hook and bind it on with a few wraps of elastic thread.

For bass and cod, then two crabs cut in half and all four segments then formed in to a fat sausage shape bound around the hook will create a bait big enough for the bass and cod to locate. A bigger bait can pick out specimen sized bass and double figure cod, but you then need to use a two hook pennel rig for better hooking ability.