Odyssey Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Have any of you got large chest freezers for your bait? If so, how much can you fit inside them? 🤔🤔🤔🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Only have one shelf of our second freezer for bait at present, but will be investing in a dedicated bait freezer in the next few months, so I'm interested to hear peoples responses to this thread too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 2 hours ago, Odyssey said: Have any of you got large chest freezers for your bait? If so, how much can you fit inside them? 🤔🤔🤔🤔 I’ve got a chest freezer, only single size ( washing machine size). I usually keep a few slabs of herring and 10kg  of squid just in case but stocks are low at the moment due to the fish market being limited service Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 I was hoping to get 150-200kg of mackerel in a large one but not sure I’m being overly optimistic.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 13 minutes ago, Odyssey said: I was hoping to get 150-200kg of mackerel in a large one but not sure I’m being overly optimistic.... Are you taking the Romanian national fluff chucking team out for the day? Geoff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 19 minutes ago, JonC said: Are you taking the Romanian national fluff chucking team out for the day? Nope I want to stock up for chum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 5 minutes ago, Odyssey said: Nope I want to stock up for chum Whats that for then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 57 minutes ago, JonC said: Whats that for then? FFS... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 5 minutes ago, Andy135 said: FFS... He’s a proper arse Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Saintly Fish said: He’s a proper arse Just miserable coz his rugby team are crap 🤣 Andy135 and jonnyswamp 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuda4 Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 I have a chest freezer in my garage which was stocked up with approx 12 x 5lb boxes of squid,10,boxes of mini squid,packs of herring,mackerel and bluey's 10 of each, I also purchase wire baskets to sit on the top which have had frozen lug, sandeels and crabs there was also plenty of room left for freezer blocks for the cool box on the boat. Hope this gives you a rough idea. Steve Saintly Fish 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 Sounds good!  I’ve seen a 450l version cheap locally and they’ll deliver too so if I can exchange contracts on old and new houses this week I’ll get it on order.  Plan to get 150-200kg of mackerel/sardines or see if Ammo will give a good price on 20 blocks of chum. Rest is room ready for pollack and cod fillets that Emma will catch for me 🙂 I just get to helm and unhook if we go reefing.... beats me on reefing and winter cod fishing 😬😬😬😬😬 Geoff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 So contract sent off today.... hopefully I’ll be a new home owner on 12th March.  Freezer identified, bait source identified for a bargain price! Just got to wait now...... 😬😬😬😬  Geoff and ever optimistic 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Good luck, I hope the move goes smoothly for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 (edited) On 2/27/2021 at 7:41 PM, Odyssey said: I was hoping to get 150-200kg of mackerel in a large one but not sure I’m being overly optimistic....  200kg ............ roughly 400lb .... which equates to around 600 Mackerel ........... About 5 hours fishing for us ............ 😛 Edited March 2, 2021 by GPSguru Geoff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Our freezers are for putting goat, deer or ice, very little space needed for bait. A beach session like the other night consists of taking two baits to catch bigger fresh bait, so two mackerel will result in an endless supply of tailor or salmon as bait. Same for out in the boat, a bait jig will soon have the live bait tank teaming with fresh live bait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzook12 Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 4 hours ago, JDP said: Our freezers are for putting goat, deer or ice, very little space needed for bait. A beach session like the other night consists of taking two baits to catch bigger fresh bait, so two mackerel will result in an endless supply of tailor or salmon as bait. Same for out in the boat, a bait jig will soon have the live bait tank teaming with fresh live bait. Sometimes Jon, I think you just like to show off!!! 🤣 Catching fish from the shore! Whatever next?? 🤣 JDP and ever optimistic 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted March 2, 2021 Author Share Posted March 2, 2021 10 hours ago, GPSguru said:  200kg ............ roughly 400lb .... which equates to around 600 Mackerel ........... About 5 hours fishing for us ............ 😛 Yep I know 😞 But if you buddy up with friendly charter skipper you can get 200kg of mackerel frames (heads and guts) for £0.50 per kg it’s cheaper than fuel and the months spent trying to find them! 😬😬😬😬😬 Hopefulky enough fish to make 400kg of chum which is about 30 trips so maybe a season.... I can keep adding to it with left over bait etc 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Odyssey said: Yep I know 😞 But if you buddy up with friendly charter skipper you can get 200kg of mackerel frames (heads and guts) for £0.50 per kg it’s cheaper than fuel and the months spent trying to find them! 😬😬😬😬😬 Hopefulky enough fish to make 400kg of chum which is about 30 trips so maybe a season.... I can keep adding to it with left over bait etc 🙂 We tend to start off the same chum from the stored Mack in the freezer (about 30 - 50), and then we generally catch enough mack when drifting to keep us going all day.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted March 2, 2021 Author Share Posted March 2, 2021 41 minutes ago, GPSguru said: We tend to start off the same chum from the stored Mack in the freezer (about 30 - 50), and then we generally catch enough mack when drifting to keep us going all day.  Catch as you drift..... I wish! I had 4 on the boat last year. One in summer and 3 in December! Dicky 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 6 hours ago, Odyssey said: Catch as you drift..... I wish! I had 4 on the boat last year. One in summer and 3 in December!  What do the Sharks feed on in the deeps if there are not many Mack ? .......... I would guess probably Whiting, because they like deep water during the summer and Autumn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted March 2, 2021 Author Share Posted March 2, 2021 21 minutes ago, GPSguru said:  What do the Sharks feed on in the deeps if there are not many Mack ? .......... I would guess probably Whiting, because they like deep water during the summer and Autumn Whiting, squid, joeys and sardines. They are there but not in shoals and with 300ft of water to cover it’s hard to find them 😬 GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DINOBOY Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) I have a 6’ chest freezer for bait, I got it for shark chum storage using 10L plastic paint tubs. 20 of these about half fills it. A bit worried this  year as I missed out on as much free winter  herring as I wanted from the ring betters in our harbour ‘gotta be there to get it and I wasn’t’ 😞😞. Looks like I’m gonna have some very early mornings this summer to stockpile some mackerel.  Edited March 10, 2021 by DINOBOY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 I’m hoping to get a bulk discount with a charter skipper mate. Hopefully get a decent cost reduction, fill freezer then defrost and bake chum sometime soon 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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