| #21  09-28-2010, 05:00 PM | |||
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| Re: Maggots Breeding your own Gozzers ====================== The equipment you will need is as follows; Pigs heart or Sheeps heart 1 large bucket 1 small bucket Newspaper Large cloth (to fit over the large bucket) Bran Soft brown sugar Riddle Take the heart and cut it quite deeply several times, from the top to the bottom. Now remove any congealed blood from the centre of the heart. With this done you should now place the heart into the small bucket and take it outside, preferably the bottom of the garden. Now you should leave it there for somewhere in the region of half a day to one whole day. When you go back you should notice lots of little white specs, these are the eggs. Now you should gently wrap the heart in some old newspaper and place it back into the small bucket. This in tern should be placed in the larger bucket and the cloth fastened around the top. (The second, larger bucket, is used to insulate the eggs from extreme temperatures of cold at night and heat during the day). This should now be taken to a shady part of your garden and left for a couple of days. If all goes well when you return to inspect your eggs you should notice lots of small maggots. This is the time that they start to feed so you should place the heart, with the newspaper still on into one of your buckets that you have placed some bran and some soft brown sugar in, you can add a little cream off the top of a pint of milk to the heart later if you wish. Now replace the cloth and leave them in the cool for about five days. When you return you should notice that the maggots have grown big and juicy, if they haven't then it's probably due to it being a little cold for them so more time will be needed for them to mature. When they are fully mature you will notice that they have stopped feeding, so you should now seperate them from all the mess and place them into a clean container with fresh bran and sugar inside. You should keep them quite cool from now on. The bran and sugar will toughen up their skins a little so that they won't explode when you try and use them as a hookbait. They should now be left for about 24 hours in a cool spot. Now It's time to riddle the maggots, this will seperate all of the bran and sugar from the grubs, their skin will be slightly tougher but they will be full of lovely sweet juice. They can now be placed into a bait container, with a lid that has holes in, now even more bran should be used to top up the container. This lot of bran helps absorb any moisture thus preventing the maggots from sweating. Now place the container in a fridge and keep it there until you intend on using them. All of the effort is well worth while because you end up with a superior bait compared to any purchased one. It's a bit like comparing a free range chicken to a battery hen, they are both poultry but one tastes so much better than the other.     |
| #23 09-28-2010, 06:42 PM | |||
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| Re: Maggots From people i speak to not many anglers even know what they are. I made a batch at the begging of the summer and they are worth the effort in my opinion anyway! |
| #24 09-28-2010, 06:51 PM | |||
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| Re: Maggots Quote:
certainly are worth the effort mate , the best there are . i think you have to be over a certain age to know what they are |
| #25 12-24-2011, 03:52 AM | |||
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| Re: Maggots I use maggots for trout all the time. i put 5 on a size 6 bait holder hook and catch all kinds of trout and the maggots sometimes stay on for several catches. Maggots I have herd that they can be in a sealed conainer and will not die like wax worms do! i even caught a 15 inch walleye on maggots and plenty of crappies! i have seen people catch trout with a marshmellow and one maggot. |
| #26 12-24-2011, 10:27 AM | ||||
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| Re: Maggots I keep some of my maggots in a bait box when fishing with feeder (easy to fill the feeder this way) but can't beat a good old fashioned Maggot bag round ya' neck for float fishing easy to re-bait the hook (filling the catty from bait box if required but loose feed from the BAG if not throwing far. I've sometimes accidentalll kicked the bait box over, losing a lot of em', but still have a BACK UP with the Maggot bag. __________________ Fishing - the best fun you can have with your clothes on. |
| #27 12-29-2011, 05:41 PM | ||||
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| Re: Maggots I agree though I tend to use a bait apron. Diawa do them. I love to use mine when I am mobile a roach fishing on the River stour. Put an hour or so bait in there and keep the rest in your bait box. that way if you do knock them or trip up you don't loose all your bait. Also fantastic if you need to wade out but the ground is too hard for a bait wait (though you could use a platform). I always think that setting up too many bait boxes makes you instantly immobile. When I stop on the river I only get out what I immediately want, the rest stays in the bag. __________________ Just remember, not all the heroes died. www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
| #28 12-29-2011, 07:18 PM | ||||
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| Re: Maggots Can ya' still get Maggot bags ? Don't need any just now though - i have 2 or 3 which i just use for maggots, + I keep my reels in some i've kept clean. Would imagine a bait apron gets a bit Whiffy & will need washing after each session ?? (each one to their own) i wash mine after 3 or 4 sessions. Are the aprons made of maggot bag fabric but with a belt ?? The downside i can see IMHO is that when sat down the maggots can crawl out of the top. With a maggot bag, it just swings between yer' legs - ooh er' Mr's. __________________ Fishing - the best fun you can have with your clothes on. |
