The Traditional Fisherman's Forum

Just visited my local tackle shop to check they never had something I didn't already own and saw they have put up the price of Maggots to £3.40 a pint!

Still cheaper than ale....

Breed your own. Leave a few pieces of offal outside in an open bait box on a sunny day and you'll have fine gozzers in a few days. Put them in a riddle over a bait box with sawdust in it and they'll drop through. It'll smell a bit though so having a garden or outhouse helps. I think one of those Ivan Marks pieces in the AT deals with this. Can't remember how you get pinkies, squats etc.

I guess my sixpence won't go very far then!

I suppose you could try those rubber ones!! Lucky Luca told me in his groundbait he includes boiled long grained rice as it looks like maggots!!

Years ago I bought a rubber worm but came in for so much ridicule I threw it away. Now thinking of trying to find another for use on Rivers - I have seen some with integral hooks but the one I had in the 1960s was just an ordinary looking British lob worm which you stuck your hook in.

PershoreHarrier wrote:I suppose you could try those rubber ones!!.

Can you buy them by the pint?

Look up 'sour bran specials' for maggot breeding!

£2.80 at my tackle shop a pint

Paul D wrote:

PershoreHarrier wrote:I suppose you could try those rubber ones!!.

Can you buy them by the pint?

The good news, although they might be expensive, is they last for ages and don't ever become casters.

I must have a word again with Bumble about artificial baits as I believe he has had some success in that regard.

Match Aerial wrote:£2.80 at my tackle shop a pint

Wow,how lucky are you,I had to pay £3.40 the other day as well,i asked for a little bit of maize because they were going to be in the car for a couple of hours,he said there was already some in there,i knew that but how much would another pinch cost,they stunk when I got home,the only reason I used that shop was because we were shopping up that way,Customer relations=nil.