Go West Young Maggot

[MoCarp]

Raising Your own Maggots for Bait,

Great for Trout

Begin with just a few supplies. You will need:

1. Bait container: 1 large plastic container with a lid.
2. Uncooked, Canteloupe to bait the flies. or fish heads..you can add food color to the bait to make colored larva
3. Holding container for mature maggots: 1 small plastic container with a lid.
4. Corn meal for the holding container.

Using canteloupe, put a few slivers into the bait container

Put the container in a warm spot outside. Leave it out for a day or 2. Female flies will land on the food and lay their eggs. Cover the container and bring it in at night. Cats, dogs and racoons may thieve your smelly bait if you don't.

On day 3 put your covered bait container in a safe, shady spot outside where animals can't bother it. Wait and watch for the maggots to hatch.

When the maggots have hatched you can let them feed for a couple of days or you can put them into the small holding container with a few teaspoons of corn meal. Refrigerating the maggots will keep them in a temporary state of stupor until you're ready to use them. 

To feed fly pupa, put the maggots in the small container with corn meal once they have stopped feeding. Do not refrigerate. Put the container in dark place. The maggots will burrow in the cornmeal and become pupa in a few days. Refrigerate after they have reached the pupa stage. If the pupa are not refrigerated, they will hatch into flies.

To farm a revolving supply of maggots:

As the maggots hatch, remove them to the holding container. Add canteloupe to the bait container as needed and start from the beginning again.

Be aware that maggots are excellent climbers. Do not leave the bait or holding containers uncovered. The maggots will escape or get eaten by predators.

If you've never handled maggots before, now is as good a time to start as any.

Good luck!

[MoCarp]

hooking them them

[MoCarp]

chumming them, is easier with the right tools, raising your own makes it affordable

 

also a self-defence option! a fist full of juicy 'gots right in the pie hole will make even the most  belligerent person back off! 

 

[MoCarp]

even have plastic options too

[MoCarp]

you can use other things with the clips red worms..corn, but chumming with maggots won't be harmfull

[MoCarp]

did i tell you it works on picky fish?

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

Very educational post.  Thank you, (although I am eating lunch).  Where might one find thise hooks/clips? 

[MoCarp]

27 minutes ago, Daryk Campbell Sr said:

Very educational post.  Thank you, (although I am eating lunch).  Where might one find thise hooks/clips? 

Big Carp Tackle is where I got mine,... they import Carp "kit" as the Brits call it from the UK,.... they are out of Oklahoma....prob others online..... just be carful where they ship from or it will spend 6 months in customs...something about the word "clip" and its made of metal can set off metal detectors..... makes customs twitchy...

 

I ordered some beta lights once from a supplier in England (used for carp fishing bite indication at night see pic)

I did this pre-9-11...I can't imagine who would be knocking on your door when you set off the radiological detectors when they landed in the USA today, prob get a night in the pokey and cavity searched....come to think of it kinda creepy to think how the term "pokey" came about for jail anyways

 

 

"Beta Lights" "Tritium emits electrons through beta decay, and, when they interact with a phosphor material, fluorescent light is created, a process called radio luminescence."

 

[MoCarp]

if you chum about a 1/2 golf ball worth of 'gots up current and let them drift down the trout will go nuts, ...using the clip and "hair rigging" will keep from gut hooking fish...a plastic "maggot" rigged on a jig work as well, just put them in the live ones overnight.

the "ball of maggots" in real or plastic form will temp even the most discriminating monster trout....