Over the years we have seen a lot of changes in the sea angling world. It seems nearly everything has been modernised: rods, reels, leads, rigs and entire arsenals of new equipment developed over the years and which now populate our tackle boxes; not to mention boats and the equipment that we find on them! Where one person may think we are going completely mad, the other eagerly makes use of these ingenious developments.
Remarkably, one of the most important aspects, the bait we use, has not really developed for the simple reason that it is either not possible, extremely difficult or simply too expensive.
Attempts have certainly been made. Think of our always “fresh” and very agile king rags from France and even Korea: A nice attempt, but not really successful. The only thing that has worked out well is breeding of the common red rags. There is a lot of fishing done with these, but in addition
