Guys I need some help with this,,it cant be that difficult but for a idiot like my self,,well enough said. I have been fishing with eggs and sand shrimp for the last few years for winter brats and nates. But I saw a guy on the river some time back that was using prawns. Now I am wondering if I could get say 3/4lb and peel and cut them into quarter sized pieces and sprinkle some strawberry JELLO on them to get a pink color...would that work?
Also, how would I rig it on the hook.
any suggestions or tips are greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

I've had good luck with tiger prawns. I split the tails and soak them in red food coloring for a few hours. you can trim them up fairly thin so they dont have much more drag than eggs. more than once I've caught two fish with the same bait. I dont think they work as well as sand shrimp, but they last way longer.

Wish:

RT has posted some info on this in the past and even some coloring/brining recipes that I have used and worked very well with Springers on the Columbia. If I remeber right the brine was pro-cure coloring, distilled water, and various scents. I remember a diagram that also shows a double-hook rig for a prawn that RT put out. I think I saw all this info on the Oregon board.

I hooked a steelie on a prawn tail last week just using a single hook. Just put the hook in the prawn as if it were a sandshrimp tail, then insert a (flat) toothpick inside the center of the tail from top to bottom. The toothpick keeps the prawn tail from curling. Slide on a corky and your in business.

Hope this helps.

BD

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Hi This is a bead bodied Tiger Prawn lure you might want to try. Body :p earl beads,shank soft stainless ,hackle grizzley,feelers squirrel and crystal flash,eyes black beads on 30lb mono.

Coot, that is one excellent looking shrimp imitation. I will be making some of those up for sure.

I've used raw prawns for a number of years, they hold-up very well on their own, but I like to cut the peeled tails into small 1/4 inch bits which I then tie up in red mesh netting. This makes a small dime sized little ball that I thread onto my leader usually above a smaller corky (I thread it on with a carpet needle) The shrimp-ball and corky with a little yarn in the hook's egg loop, has put a lot of fish on the bank for me.

There was a thread on here a few days ago, about the use of two corkies being better than one, but this set-up works even better than that.
I carry them in old plastic 35mm film containers, sometimes I add extra shrimp oil and the tight snap on lids keep everything neat.

You can also put any you don't use right in the freezer when you get home and they'll keep for several trips, just DON"T forget to take them out of your vest and put'em in the freezer at the end of the day, talk about STINK! after 3 or 4 day's you'll wonder what the hell died! if your married you'll really loose some points with the wife!