maggots

[aquaman]

anybody here know were to get any especially those neat colored ones
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[hustler898]

Forgot to log in again! [blush]
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[aquaman]

yeah just don't think i want to go that route
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[BearLakeMack]

[url "http://www.vadosbait.com/bait.html"]http://www.vadosbait.com/bait.html[/url]
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[aquaman]

thanks BLM very interesting site just what i was looking for while we are on the subjest of maggot anyboby here ever try them for ice fishing have any luck ?
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[HFT]

I have had them in the store before they are a pain to take care of. they move too fast . they do stay on the hook real well. guys say they work well.
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[wetwaders]

They work really good for perch. At pineview I have tipped my ice jig with them. My cousin ordered a bunch of them last year and he just kept them in the fridge in a bag and they lasted a long time.
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[fishnate]

Maggots are pretty much all I use for ice fishing. Waxies don't stay on the hook as well and I usually find either waxies or maggots out catching meal worms for panfish. I haven't made any comparisons for trout. I've caught bluegill, perch, crappie, trout, kokanee, whitefish, cisco, and LM bass to 4 lbs through the ice on maggots. No other bait has yet convinced me to change. One other thing is that you usually get 80 maggots compared to 25 waxies for the same price.
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[TubeDude]

[cool]Maggots have been used for centuries in Europe. They buy them by the pound, from growers who keep a constant supply feeding on rotting meat. In Britain, there is a lot of "match fishing", with long rods, light line and small hooks. The most often used chum and bait are maggots.

In the U.S., we are squeamish and hate the sound of maggot. That's why those who sell them call them Eurolarvae. Quite a few transplanted Europeans have come over here and demonstrated how effective their match fishing techniques are on our fishies. In many demonstrations, they have shown that almost all species of our American fish find maggots to be quite desirable...in open water as well as under the ice. Perch and panfish like bluegill find them especially appealing. But, even the snobbish trouts suck them in. Heck, they don't look much different than an unshucked caddis fly larva.

As a lot of folks have read or heard, you can now buy maggots in designer colors. Kinda like wiggling power bait. The colors attract the fish and the natural insect larva flavor seals the deal. A lot of anglers in our country have discovered that these nasty critters make good bait, and more and more Americans are raising and coloring their own maggots.

Strangely, I first tried maggots in Northern California. I had some left after an ice fishing trip to a small lake near Donner Pass one winter. The trout loved them. I brought them back to Sacramento and used them to tip hot pink flies in the American River. One morning I used up the rest of my plain vanilla maggots and caught over ten steelhead and several jack salmon...while most of the other guys in the same stretch of river did much worse.

Since then I have used them on bait bugs to finesse some very large bluegills and redear sunfish. During the winter, the crappies go for smaller offerings too, and tipping a microjig with a maggot sounds the dinnerbell.

There are some new strains of really big maggots available. But, a single small wiggly one, on an ice fly, is all you need for most ice fishing. After that, you have to conduct your own side by side evaluation as to whether you think they are any better than waxworms, mealworms, crawlers or whatever

Here's a link to an interesting site that not only touches on maggots, but has some good Q & A on other ice fishing topics.

[url "http://iceteam.com/askpowersticks.htm"]http://iceteam.com/askpowersticks.htm[/url]
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[aquaman]

so fishnate where do you get yours some place local or do you send out for them ? the site BLM posted sells them by the 1000 don't know what i would do with that many anybody want to go halvies ? thanks for the info everyone
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[tubeN2]

Hey aquaman, check out [url "http://www.rainbowmealworms.com"]www.rainbowmealworms.com[/url] they have them there also and in smaller quantities. Super good prices too. They have maggots, mealies, waxies, crawlers, roaches and more.
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[aquaman]

thank you
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[tubeN2]

No problem buddy. Just trying to help.[cool]
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[fishnate]

Several places here in Cache Valley sell them. I guess that doesn't help you out in Salt Lake much though. They come in 80 count and they survive for quite awhile in the fridge but I suspect they would live even longer if you had a place to put them at just over 40 deg. or in deeper sawdust so they are better insulated.
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[aquaman]

thanks for the info nate
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