mikench
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I tend to use red and white maggots if I use them at all! Are pinkies preferred by certain species over normal maggots and when would you use bronze?
Chris, I reckon maggots burrowing into the substrate is an old wives tale bud. Manys the time i've dropped some into the margins and they never bury themselves. I'm not sure it's possible for them to do so even if they wanted to because they're quite bouyant and if they press onto the substrat they push themselvel up in the water....i've checked em out in a tank also .
I wouldn't dispute it. However, the buggers will crawl away from the baited area given time. I've had them crawl up and out of fifteen feet of water on the syndicate. I doubt that would happen with squats.
15 foot of water!.....you must have dropped them in the edge when feedimg, or someone had been there before you. They can't crawl anywhere in water, they just suffocate and stretch out fair quick really.....unless you'd been feeding them some crushed iotopes or summot lol..
I think you might be surprised. They definitely last a lot longer under water without suffocating than I ever expected. The pit is, in places, rather deep, quite close to the bank. I've seen my own maggots crawl out on quite a few occasions. I've even seen slugs do the same. Naturally, it helps that there aren't that many fish to mop them up, something that won't be the case on many waters.
I reckon you've got some kind'a super strain maggots there Chris!
Graham, I once had some bronze maggots mixed into my usual ones and the poisonous dye made my hands yellow , my stradic real was perminently stained along with my corks. I wasn't best pleased and let the shop know next time I called in. Only reason the shop assistant didn't get a slap was because I knew him.
It would have been Chrisodene Ian, it was blamed for causing the death of an angler that died from bladder cancer but I don't think any link was ever proved, I think it was banned for colouring maggots after that though.
It would have been Chrisodene Ian, it was blamed for causing the death of an angler that died from bladder cancer but I don't think any link was ever proved, I think it was banned for colouring maggots after that though.
More to do with the size of hook and bait presentation. I used to use them when I wanted a really small bait on a tiny hook mostly in winter or on canals or when scratching for bites.
Short memory Mike?
Oh dear! Guilty as charged! I blame ageing! If I can forget Tackle, bait and what I went upstairs for I'm sure to be capable of forgetting about posting previously about maggots! Thanks for the reminder Peter! The info received in replies is however just as helpful as first time round to me and maybe to others!