Best bait for dungies?

What's up NCKA? I'm just curious... what's your favorite bait for dungies? I've had good luck using chicken or turkey (necks, backs, and other cheap cuts). Also had good luck with rockfish carcasses, but I don't have any of those around right now.

Thoughts?

I like mackerel. Salmon heads work really well also. 

Nice. I'll see if Tokyo Fish Market has some salmon heads. Illegal to use those after this weekend I'm guessing?

I use chicken backs, cut mackerel, anchovies or sardines, squid and canned cat food (ocean white fish) primarily. If I have them ab guts, fish skeletons and heads, table scraps, any thing that has been in the freezer for more than 12 months. After Thanksgiving, I boil the carcass for stock and use the bones for bait.

i used a mix of sardines and squid last weekend and limited on 5 pulls. I also had some stripers in there. I don't think that really attracted them. But once in the trap they were munching on it. The dines were nothing but bones! I like stuff that is "oily" I was going to squirt some old 1/4 full bottles of pro cure in there but I left them at home.

For what we do on the yaks I think hanging bait is the best. I've had the most success using the carcasses of fish that I caught. Rockfish frames are my go to but salmon and tuna work awesome as well.

I think it's important to have something they can munch on when they get in the cage. The sound of the feeding crabs will draw in more crabs and hopefully plug your pot.


-Eliot

For our HeroesOnTheWater crabbing events we use shad and salmon carcasses. But we use CrabHawks.

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that things a monster!! nice!

Damn!!! That's a beast!!! I'll let you guys know how I do out at Muir tomorrow.