How to catch/collect live prawns - My best bass bait 

glad to watch something good whilst the world is going mad nice and calming thanks mate

In Greece we used to do a tea towel tied over a bowel, and then cut a circle in the middle. Some olive oil dough was enough bait too!

Brilliant. Thanks again John. Lovin' the 'Blue Peter' trap. SO simple!!

I really liked the second one.. the bottle trap.. that was very easy and effective way to catch the prawns. Thanks my dear 👌👍👍👍💐

That's fantastic! I'm going to make one of them and try it out around the local rocks!!!! Would love to do a catch and cook with prawns!!!! Thanks for the upload. Very helpful!!

What a nice idea to cath a live bait prawn..I never think about that.. making a prawn trap with just a bottle..Thank you very much John..Soon I'll try it too

Recently found tour channel pretty much caught up in last two weeks haha .ohhhh my days your are the nuts 🥜.can u please please please bring out a book or something with all e things u says the different species of crab fish lobster sea weed.we need an idiots guide hahaha .amazing work .your changing the world with what you do .

Going to give this a go over the weekend Thanks John, will let you know what happens Tight lines and keep it lit.👍

Cheers John, I’ll show my nipper this one, he’s always making things to catch stuff off the piers in the summer 👍🏻

tyre works with holes drilled in it love your videos thank you

A simple economic solution the bottle is the one for me. Will be making 2/3 for my fishing trip and attach them to the groynes. Straight forward tip that even I can put together. Thank You.

Hi John. I find cable ties are good for feeding through the holes once lined up. Stiff and pull out easily. Great video! Very informative.

Great content as usual - watching this with sound off - it's a bloody crime what you -tube captions do to your words mate! You have taught me a great deal with these videos cheers.

What a great idea! I shall try this in the next few weeks! Loads of rock pools in my area!

Thank you for showing me how to make a fish trap 🐟🦞🦀🐠🦐🦑🐙🐡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Loving your videos. Great source of information, very clear and fantastic instructions. Just found your channel and can’t wait to try out some of the things you have demonstrated.

Goodly video, i always have a problem, they are a very good bait and they are very good eating, happy holidays all, tight lines sir

OH!, You just showed me how to make a fucking minnow trap!!. I used this since I was a kid. Why I not used this in the sea I’ve no idea lol, cheers mate! 👍

Excellent I've been told about those plastic bottle type pots I didn't know about fishing them in the side high up but it makes total sense 👍 gonna definitely try that 👍 😀

Good idea my dear friend 👌😘

very good video john

Totally cool mate,most bait shops here are still closed because of covid. I'm still on lockdown,although we are getting there :) So gonna trash that 2L cola bottle in my recycling bag tonight! Brill vid, Keep safe

Thank you John and as I have 3 of these type pots I will make the whole much smaller.

Thank you,very interesting 🍀😉👍

Thank you for this John, I am returning to fishing after a 7 year hiatus! Fishing in a different part of Ireland and I am looking for places to dig rag, lug and now hopefully get a few shrimp. Looking for advice on how best to hook shrimp/prawn when float fishing. Any help greatly appreciated...

Love your videos Great content mate

I've pulled them up in crab nets when getting some small crabs in norfolk

Wonderful video, Thank you for sharing...seems like it's always raining when you shoot your videos.

very nice, man.. solid work as always..

Top fella . I've seen the pop bottle funnal trap to catch wasps when we was camping I'll Defford give that a go and if the fish don't bite I'm a happy chappy with prawn 😂

Again cracking video gone try this on a scear near me

Great vid. You deserve a Blue Peter Badge and a bit of sticky back plastic [ you don't look old enough to remember that TV show ..lol ] Thks

Just discovered your workshop channel. Subbed. Spargos kitchen is a great addition to fishlocker. Thank him for me👍🥖🍛🧂🍅🍷

I live at the top of the tidal stretch of the Trent and I reckon that Bass rig would be killer for Barbel if our freshwater shrimps can be mounted on an 8. Whatever the case, I'm having that home made prawn trap, thanks again John.

Well done.

awesome!

I use two bottles,cut the bottom off one,and cut the top off the other.Push the top inside the other bottle.and remove the lid.Leave the other lid on and drill holes in it.That way you can pour the prawns/minnows out with out a struggle. I staple the top inside the other bottle.

Cheers John

Thanks for sharing this with us I will be trying it soon let you know if it work at Gray's in the River Thames 🖖💯💎🦈🎣😎

Hi John, just binge watching some of your previous video, love this simple but effective way of catching prawns. On you videos where you go collect from your live bait pots for crab and lobster, silly question and may sound a bit dumb, but can anyone go fishing in sea, or put their own pots in? or do you have to have a license to fish, there must be hundreds of live bait pots on sea bed. you are so honest when measuring the lobsters, some might go, it's near as damn it, but that is just not you. True honest fisherman that puts fish back and only take what is needed, not be greedy. 👍🙌🦀🦞🦐

Been messing about with this kind of thing for the past couple of years John, I have some footage that has never been used but I plan to do a few more of these sort of vids in the future.

What should be placed in the bottle to attrack the pawns in?

I used this on holiday when place where fishing was banned caught a small fish

And if you cut that blue ring around the neck of the bottle in half it won't get stuck around the neck of a fish , eel or my finger . Great stuff mate

Interesanti interesanti

Ha haa 🤣 that's the exact same one my brother gave me to use it did catch a crab but like you say you get what you pay for, I adjusted mine a bit and weighted it .

What size hooks do you use to attach the prawns

I have a round one and once I caught a conger eel and a lobster

I just put a mackerel head in a bucket and dangle it down the side of a pier/breakwater for half an hour, job done. No crabs either.

High John what time of year is best for trapping pls

Amazing, can you show us how to cook them? What did you use as bate?

love your videos man what do you use in the nets for catching the shrimps

thanks mate, can you catch the prawns during winter also

Love your videos, such good content. Always enjoyable and educational! Is there any way you could improve the audio? It is very quiet, so when the ads come on it nearly breaks my speakers! With most software, you can 'normalise' the audio in your editor, so that all the peaks are at 0dB...even add some compression to bring the lowest peaks up a bit too..

Why not use the plastic bottle necks, pierce holes around the edges where you’ve cut the bottle, I’ll use a hot screwdriver to pierce bottle to prevent cracking. Cut the plastic bottle necks so that the widest part of the funnel is the same as your collapsible pots. Then sew bottle funnels facing inward to the holes of the collapsible net pots. Harder then for prawns to get put. I use the heavy duty collapsible, and and had nice lobster as well. Some nice prawns there.

Hi John - great video as always - can you tell me if prawns are available all along the South Coast - I keep a fishing boat in a marina in Lymington and was thinking that might be a good place to set a home made trap ?

If you walk along a pontoon at night and shine a light into the water to illuminate the pontoon floats, you can see the prawns eyes reflecting the light.

Just watch this video its brill how do you put them on hook thanks

Brilliant idea can we put a piece of squid in instead of fish

i just realized you had a glance of leonardo dicaprio😆😆😆😆

Would your prawns need to be alive all the time or can u still use them if they die as bait for bass

Good effort but I find using a big fish net faster and easier. Drag it along the wall and guarantee to get hundreds within a few mins

Bought from China,,, there crap, hahaha class, great vidoe and advice

Are you there John? I'd like to go live tonight and make one of the shrimp pots I saw on your video. I'll credit it to you. I'd just like to know if you're ok with it. Would like to do the live at 7pm I tried to message via Instagram but it wouldn't go through.

Do you recon I could use them from the boat?

What’s the best time to catch them?

Just so I'm sure, are the live baits for boat, shore, or both? btw, love your vids, keep em up!

You use a fish to catch a prawn to catch a rass to catch a bass,does this ever end?

Hi, do I need a license for this?

Aren’t there bigger shrimp? Those would be good in something like pompano or snapper cooked in parchment paper or a creole shrimp remoulade salad

OR SOLDERING IRON

I couldnt feed these to the fish. Id have to eat them hahaha

Do you ever eat these prawns?

Great channel very educational.. But your sound quality is not very good.. Hard to hear or listen .Enjoy your programs though.

Im sure theres a missed joke opportunity here.

Im not sure, well i am but these arent prawns as i know them. Shrimps they are.

Prawns are more delicious than bass.

‘Just throw it in the bin’? Not a great attitude