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My wife was headed do to one of my favorite places to shop.. Smith & Edwards..[laugh] I asked her if she would pick me up some waxies.. She said " I am NOT picking you up any maggots. They are disgusting" !!![mad] Well with a LOT of pleading she finally said yes..[angelic] But she picked up meal worms instead.. [crazy]I have always used waxies.. Other than the size is there any big different in the two ?
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[cool]It all depends on where you are fishing. (IMO) There have been days where I have not had a hit on waxies, while I slammed them on mealies, and vise versa.
Where are you fishing??
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I usually get both I usually rig a drop shot with either 2 jigs or a rastso or a finkee and hook on 1 waxy and 1 meal. Lets me know what the fish are biting.
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I am heading to either east canyon or rock port this week end.. The bows are what I'm after at east canyon.... But Will fish the perch if it slows down at rock port..
I heard the they have pay tubes at rock port.. How much for the day..
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Its probly just personal prefrence but i only buy meal worms and never have had a problem but now i mostly just use minnows
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I never leave home without both of them, and several other baits. It has been my experience that as a general rule larger fish will usually prefer the meal worms, but this is definitley not always the case.
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I don't know Rockport well at all, but I usually follow my own little rule:
If I am using an ice fly, then I tip with wax worm. If I am using a jig, then I use a meal worm (among other things). [cool]
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I always go with the waxies. Mealworms are harder in texture and sometimes less appealing especially for small fish like perch. Spikes (maggots) supposedly have tough skin so they stay on the hook better. But I don't really care to touch maggots, lol.
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Wax worms are just bee maggots.
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I was at Rockport today(slow). The fee to park on the west side is $3. There are pay tubes by the restrooms. I don't know if you have to pay if you park at a pullout with no restroom.
Mealworms for me. I just don't like wax worms.
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I like to use a combo. I put the milly on frist than pull the head off the waxie to make it really tantalizing and smear with smelly jelly its all ways worked for me.
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Lardy, lardy! I thought for sure TubeDude would chime in before now! Anyway, here goes -
Wax worms - galleria mellonella are larvae stage of the wax moth or bee moth. They are very destructive pests of honeycombs and are white
Meal worms - tenebrio molitor larvae stage of the darkling beetle and are brownish copper colored.
To agree with Flycasting, I use wax worms with smaller ice flies and meal worms with larger baits sometimes. Like Kent says, I bring a bunch of baits and give them all a shot. I also change the container from the crappy little snap on lidded ones with sawdust in them to a more substantial container, often specimen collection jars I get at work (empty specimen collection jars [shocked].)
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A few years ago I accidentally left a container of wax worms in my ice fishing bucket for the summer... [pirate]
To my suprise, the end result were abunch of flies that looked like common house flies... not bees. They weren't spikes either. [crazy]
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Oh, it's not that I don't think you are right. I had thought for sure there would be bee's in there too, but I was suprised. I wonder if they sell different kinds of wax worms???
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