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  1. ouchthathurt

    Maggots

    I've used maggots quite a bit last winter and had a cracking few sessions on them. I found that it was best to split them into smaller quantities as a lot of maggots all wriggling together creates warmth that caused sweating. Keeping those that were not for immediate use in airtight bags with the air squeezed out put them into suspended animation and keeping them in a cool bag allowed them to be stored for a week session quite comfortably. When exposed to air, they soon woke up again. To be honest, I always had better success using a small pva bag of maggots and a magaligner rig rather than spombing the granny out of it. Most pva bags will take several handfuls of maggots easily which when placed on known feeding areas, produced bites far more regularly than a huge carpet of germs. Usually, for a 2night session 2-3pints were ample. I had carp to 37lb+ on pva bagged maggots and a magaligner/medusa rig arrangement.
    2 points
  2. Hooklink materials, a massive choice which catch many anglers. I have a few hooklink materials from mono, the same as my reel line and Amnesia, coated and plain braids. I try to keep my rigs simple. More anglers are caught up in rig fashion than fish. My usual starting point is 'old school'; a standard hook either knotless knotted or tied on, with a proper hair made from dental floss or hooklink braid. A line aligned hook, with shrink or silicon tube. I can use this for bottom baits or snowmen baits, or even pop-ups. Does it catch? Yes!
    2 points
  3. yonny

    Maggots

    Oscsha is right. Unless you keep them cold they will sweat. Sweating, within reason, doesn't bother me that much. Imo the carp are attracted by the excretions/ammonia given off by the wrigglers. When I use maggots I'll use quite a lot - at least a gallon a night. I'll happily buy 2 gallons at a time and by the second night they're clearly sweating their nuts off but still all alive. I'll never buy more than 2 gallons in one hit as by the third night you can see they're starting to turn/die.
    2 points
  4. Confidence, something I have struggled with the probably the past couple of seasons, then last night... I know my rigs work, i've been using the same rigs for over 10 years, with snowman or bottom baits, even double bottom baits. Simple, line aligned, coated braid hooklinks with a proper length hair. My bait, whatever I use, I know it will work, be it boilie over particle or boilies alone. I have probably gone through more chicken corn and hemp this year than for a few years, because I think I can put it in more easily. Boilies, I rarely choose a pup. I tend to know a good bait, although there have been exceptions. The thing I was losing confidence in was my location, hard to pinpoint carp on 350+ acres, and I wasn't walking enough. Saying that, it could take the carp a couple of days to move onto bait. Setting up on them was not always an option. If carp were around, I should catch them. I think my biggest fault this year was baiting up every day rather than letting the fish settle onto it after day ones bait. Blanking can do your head in. That to me is the biggest loser of confidence, even if it is not your fault. I try to analyse what I did wrong to put it right, and as with everyone probably go round in circles. Go back to basics, and what you know works, catch again.
    2 points
  5. oscsha

    Maggots

    There's only one way and that is to keep them cold , decent cool box with lots of ice packs .
    2 points
  6. people will be swimming out to retrieve downed drones in the middle of the lakes because of their value which has huge H&S implications flying them around too low and crashing them being an idiot with it to annoy others drone wars in the sky between anglers using them to fish out of you swim and unsafe areas as people do with bait boats privacy issues noise its illegal to do without the proper permissions (leaseholders dont cut it I dont think, has to be the landowner) looks like there is a few reasons..
    2 points
  7. muftyboy

    Maggots

    Evening you lot. Just a question for you experienced maggot users. If you are doing a long session , say 3-4 days and you have a couple of gallon of maggots with you what's the best way to make sure they stay in top condition?. Even over night my maggots always go all sweaty. Cheers.
    1 point
  8. oscsha

    Maggots

    They'll die if frozen ! You need a fridge not a freezer .
    1 point
  9. framey

    Maggots

    And probably smell the same as well lol cold and clean is the way I store them take the air out and you can get a good month out of them I use a vacuum pack machine to suck the air out
    1 point
  10. oscsha

    Maggots

    Its only 8 pints , good night down the pub LOL
    1 point
  11. emmcee

    Maggots

    Exactly, no different to a bucket of hemp. A lot of individual food items but can be polished off in minutes by a group of hungry carp.
    1 point
  12. yonny

    Maggots

    It's a lot of food items for sure but in terms of weight is next to nowt. A small group of big carp will hoover that up in no time.
    1 point
  13. emmcee

    Maggots

    A gallon of maggots is nothing really. Add into the equation perch, roach, tench and bream and it soon goes. Some will be scoffed on the drop by silvers etc. And I dread to think how fast a 20,30 or 40lb carp can demolish a gallon of maggots. In reality a 10kg bag of boilie laid out on the floor isn't a lot of bait, especially if you have half a dozen 20's or bigger munching.
    1 point
  14. emmcee

    Maggots

    Exactly how I've used them in the past, normally a gallon straight in and then top up as and when. And spot on, when the fishing is tough it's one of the best methods there is.
    1 point
  15. yonny

    Maggots

    Doesn't work mate, they just go all pasty. I've done it with GLM powders, liver powders etc. It's the heat that makes them sweat. Only cooling will prevent it. I'll generally give the spot one big hit for the night ahead (at least a gallon plus whatever else I'm using with them) but that's because the lower stock waters I fish do not tend to respond well to the constant disturbance of the little/often approach. When the fishing is tough there is no better method imo. I've had sessions where I've been forced to top up in the night such is their effectiveness. When they're bang on it you can get through gallons and gallons.
    1 point
  16. oscsha

    Maggots

    When you buy them they should come with a mix of maize flour and saw dust over them , the basemix may just clump together once wet from the sweat produced.Once they start to sweat its a thankless task trying to stop it unless you can cool them down , spliting them into smaller containers and placing the conatiners in bowls of water can help , a metal container works best which is why the old timers preferred the old metal bait tins. You could take some plain crumb ground bait so that if they do turn you can crush some of the casters and add them to the groundbait maybe along with some crushed hemp , this will fizz with some casters floating up to different degrees . (worked for the great Ivan Marks !)
    1 point
  17. commonly

    Maggots

    If you put them in an airtight bag they go into a sleep type state, take as much air out as poss, then just tip out what you want for the day in your Maggi box, they come around in a few minutes. keep the bag sealed. Not sure how long you can keep them like that, but I think they'll be good for about a week.
    1 point
  18. yonny

    Thought of the Day pt.2

    It's because some fisheries cater for real anglers😉
    1 point
  19. commonly

    Thought of the Day pt.2

    Get on that Highy. I've wanted to get one, great way to find the fish on a big water, then using a hook or claw type thing drop the rig!! Excellent use of technology, some may say cheating, but it's an advancement of the Bait boats. I've noticed a few fisheries have banned them already, can't say as I can see why?
    1 point
  20. ...

    Thought of the Day pt.2

    Didn't last long...doesn't want it now...says hard to fly.
    1 point
  21. ouchthathurt

    Canal Carping

    My next river target!
    1 point
  22. pablo7uk

    Critique my rig...

    Very tidy rig wallet, mine is much dirtier haha! Finished the day with a 2nd fish on the combi 360 rig with a pineapple pop up. Safe to say that one worked really well. Had nothing all day on pepperami on a full braid hooklink
    1 point
  23. I'll give you another reason for not using spod mixes and multiple ingredients you get covered in spod juice and it gets in your hair all over your clothes, spod rod and everywhere else in your swim, I smell fantastic now though like a walking bait shop 😁
    1 point
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