sea cockroachs

[fish_outta_water]

hi all
noticed a strange thing the other day , dunno if you fellas get sea cockroachs in aus (like a giant woodlouse, lives in sand and rocky areas)
some a$$ wipe had left beer bottles all over my local fishing spot some off which were laid against the rocks and full of sea cockroaches , literally to the top !
wondered if its a know method of catching em ?
dont like the idea of leaving beer bottles around but thats a lot of bait ! plastic roach pubs it is then
tightlines

[vanurose]

What are you talking about?
Are you sure you did'nt imagine what you just wrote after drinking all that ale that was in those bottles you supposedly found full of cockroaches?
Is this an April Fools Day joke? No. It's September

[fish_outta_water]

am serious mate honest ,
dunno if you get searoaches in oz have used em as bait in the caribean and there real good , worth learning techniques to catch hence my interest
cheers and tightlines

[Dirtysanchez]

Wow, were there any mushrooms growing near by too ?

Sorry, only kidding

I don't think we have anything like that over here.. where are you ?

[onerabbit]

Pity,

we have lots of the other sort of cockroaches.

Muzz

[fish_outta_water]

lol
live in u.k , but have seen these critters in trinidad and tobago as well , really good bait for floating around rocks , shoerline , snapper love em .
bit gutted you guys dont get em thought id found a good bait technique for when i get to aus
cheers guys
will probobly be sticking to the pippie shuffle
tighthlines

[Gorilla_in_Manila]

Guess you are talking about these things:
http://www.dbc.uci.edu/~pjbryant/bio...a%20Slater.htm

Haven't noticed them. Seems they would be fairly easy to collect.

Reckon you'd be better with rock crabs. Need to make yourself a little (couple of feet long) spear or hook out of fencing wire to get them out of the nooks around the rocks though.

Cheers
Jeff