Ours are Bigger than Yours...

Hey Dave, Good questions. We find mussels at any dock inside the Dana marina. I used big ones for bait and small ones for intermittent chumming. Mussels are hard to put on any hook, but bigger trebles seem to help. Through trail-and-error, I've found that if I crack open the mussel on the jointed end, tear off half of the mussel shell without tearing the mussel into pieces, the whole mussel stays on the hook better. I use the torn away mussel shell to scoop out the whole mussel, then place the big wod on the hook. This seems to work best. But be prepared to get frustrated. And, go through alot of mussels.

Plus, cracking open a mussel with a tool on
your kayak not only stinks up the kakak,
but drenches you as well.

By the way, as tempted as I am to slirp down
raw mussels, I don't think it's advisable.

Yani. Getting poisoned, one slirp at a time.