Cart and Wings

A few years ago a secret escape from the Yorkshire cod fishing fraternity, a secret that still isn't widely known. The words cart and crab wings broke the surface but don't be too surprised if you still don't know what they are. In a nutshell crab wings are the sack like structures found in female edible crabs and cart is the loose contents of these sacks plus the eggs, also known as coral, which is frozen in to blocks. The wings and cart can be used on their own or in conjunction with other baits to create a cocktail. The idea of cart is that it's partly liquid and lays down a massive crabby scent trail, as such its best baited up still frozen.
The cart comes in blocks and needs to be cut in to sections and wrapped to allow the scent to leak out in a controlled manner, cling film is widely accepted as the best choice of material.
It would be fair to say that these 2 baits have revolutionised cod fishing in these parts but at £20.00 a kilo it does come at a price. I managed to get 35 to 40 decent sized baits to be fished as a cocktail with wings, worm, squid or mussel.