The price of Maggots
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Re: The price of Maggots
Don't often buy maggots really...so would have no idea if I was being ripped off and also I'll buy other bits and bobs so wouldn't even know how much they cost..... bought half a pint the other day for the crucian day with wagtail Mal et al...no idea how much they were but I spent 20 quid altogether
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Re: The price of Maggots
Same for me, I bet I only purchased two lots of maggots last season and that would have been half a pint at a time.Loop Erimder wrote:Don't often buy maggots really...so would have no idea if I was being ripped off
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Re: The price of Maggots
£2.50 a pint up here in the frozen North, it does have some advantages
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I love our local tackle shop. It's still the sort of place where the local lads go in with a pocket full of change and ask how many maggots they can get-they never come out empty handed. Guess it's an investment for the future.Paul D wrote:The place I'm forced to use is also geared towards our friends the match men as well as the bivvy boys. I guess he realises he's the only tackle shop for miles so can charge what he likes.Hovis wrote:£2 up er in the grim north. From a shop supplying match man supplies. Guess it's their bread and butter trade.
We have a pretty active match scene up this way and they support this particular shop. Why? It's cheap, well run, friendly and supplies great bait at a very good price. I certainly go out of my way to buy my bait from there. Guess you reap what you sow.
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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Re: The price of Maggots
I do like to use maggot from time to time - mainly because a) Trotting is really good fun and maggots almost guarantee a bite and b) I find comfort in proving to myself that there are at least some silverfish that haven't yet been decimated by cormorants, crayfish, mink, otters et al.
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What is the name of that shop,they deserve a mention,not like the one I mentioned in a earlier post.Hovis wrote:I love our local tackle shop. It's still the sort of place where the local lads go in with a pocket full of change and ask how many maggots they can get-they never come out empty handed. Guess it's an investment for the future.Paul D wrote:The place I'm forced to use is also geared towards our friends the match men as well as the bivvy boys. I guess he realises he's the only tackle shop for miles so can charge what he likes.Hovis wrote:£2 up er in the grim north. From a shop supplying match man supplies. Guess it's their bread and butter trade.
We have a pretty active match scene up this way and they support this particular shop. Why? It's cheap, well run, friendly and supplies great bait at a very good price. I certainly go out of my way to buy my bait from there. Guess you reap what you sow.
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Re: The price of Maggots
They certainly did sell maggots at £1/pint in some of teh shops in Hull but I don't know if they still do which is why I didn't mention it earlier.Match Aerial wrote:If I remember correctly I think it was Hull Angling Centre
Maggots are such a great bait because you can keep a constant stream of bait going into the swim. On rivers it's the nearest you can get to imitating a hatch.
One interesting observation is that casters, at least when used on a river, generally produce a bigger stamp of fish. I have my theory why this happens. I wonder if anyone else has a theory?
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I've worked in Nottingham a while back and I used to go into a shop called Matchmen Supplies which was a very good shop. The shop had a match team and I used to watch them practicing around Trent Bridge.
I fished the Trent near the bridge a few times and managed to catch a tench which could be seen bubbling in the edge near where the little dyke runs in a bit further downstream from the cricket ground.
I fished the Trent near the bridge a few times and managed to catch a tench which could be seen bubbling in the edge near where the little dyke runs in a bit further downstream from the cricket ground.
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Re: The price of Maggots
The places is called angling supplies. Affectionately know as Greg'sTizer wrote:What is the name of that shop,they deserve a mention,not like the one I mentioned in a earlier post.Hovis wrote:I love our local tackle shop. It's still the sort of place where the local lads go in with a pocket full of change and ask how many maggots they can get-they never come out empty handed. Guess it's an investment for the future.Paul D wrote:The place I'm forced to use is also geared towards our friends the match men as well as the bivvy boys. I guess he realises he's the only tackle shop for miles so can charge what he likes.Hovis wrote:£2 up er in the grim north. From a shop supplying match man supplies. Guess it's their bread and butter trade.
We have a pretty active match scene up this way and they support this particular shop. Why? It's cheap, well run, friendly and supplies great bait at a very good price. I certainly go out of my way to buy my bait from there. Guess you reap what you sow.
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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