Beating the crays

There are crays in all the lakes on the complex but they only seem to be an issue on Fox lake. Last year (2010) I found what I believe to be a great weapon for getting around them. I’m not a fan of meshing or armouring baits and I found that whilst some boilies will get slaughtered by the crays, they do not like Liver baits. I mentioned this to a few of my pals and they found the same thing. Crays do not seem to like Liver, or at any rate something in the liver baits that Jon Finch makes for Bankside. As a result the hook bait of choice for me on Fox lake will always be the Bankside D-Liver dumbbell wafters tipped with one of Avid Sight Stops. They are a brilliant bait that the fish love but the crays seem to leave alone. In fact I’ve had them nick my hair stop but leave the bait in place before now. If you are fishing Fox I can recommend taking a pot or two of these beauties over.
Rob Hughes