Graeme Moon from Eastbourne had a great season on the smoothhounds last year. Of his 30 hounds from a local pier 25 fell to hardback crab fished on a version of the carp angler’s hair rig.
Big, ugly and more than a little alien looking, that’s Maia Squinado – the spider crab. Often a bottom dwelling scourge, spiders are a prickly frustration renowned for snipping through…
In the second part of his peeler crab dossier Steve Walker deals with peeling, freezing and presenting this favourite fish-food. Following on from the collection of the crabs, peelers that…
Peeler crabs can become an obsession among particularly match anglers who will spend an extraordinary amount of time collecting, storing, and preparing them for fishing use. For many other anglers…