The price of Maggots
The price of Maggots
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!
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Re: The price of Maggots
Still cheaper than ale....
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Re: The price of Maggots
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.
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Re: The price of Maggots
I guess my sixpence won't go very far then!
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Re: The price of Maggots
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.
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.
Re: The price of Maggots
Can you buy them by the pint?PershoreHarrier wrote:I suppose you could try those rubber ones!!.
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Re: The price of Maggots
Look up 'sour bran specials' for maggot breeding!
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Re: The price of Maggots
£2.80 at my tackle shop a pint
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Re: The price of Maggots
The good news, although they might be expensive, is they last for ages and don't ever become casters.Paul D wrote:Can you buy them by the pint?PershoreHarrier wrote:I suppose you could try those rubber ones!!.
I must have a word again with Bumble about artificial baits as I believe he has had some success in that regard.
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Re: The price of Maggots
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.Match Aerial wrote:£2.80 at my tackle shop a pint