Since when did the red maggot become the number one choice?. It used to be, back in the good old days of course, that Bronze maggot ruled the roost. As a switch up, yellow maggot was also effective. One would shun the cheap-skate white maggot, available at "lower end" tackle shops.
Red maggots were OK for Perch, but that was about it and since they rarely exceed 3oz back in the day there was little point.
Even after the bronze dye Chrysodine-R was found to be carcinogenic and got banned i remeber bronze were still very popular. I always used to get 2-3pts of bronze with a few yellows mixed in.
Does it matter? Whats the best colour to use? Anyone tried blue or green maggots?
Last edited by chub_on_the_block; 22-02-2012 at 16:26.
I think you answered your own question, the rise in popularity of the red maggot was certainly in part down to the scare surrounding chrysodine dyes but they also seem to have been talked up more in the papers etc especially as a bream bait with worm or corn combination.
Personally I still prefer bronze on the river but seldom use them on still waters preferring white or red. My only complaint about today's bronze maggots is that they don't seem to retain the colour as well if mixed with other colours.
don,t dismiss the humble white maggot, iv,e been trotting for roach with mixed colours and most of the bigger fish have come to the white maggot. Another favourite of mine is the disco orange colour,its worth trying different colours instead of sticking to just one.
don,t dismiss the humble white maggot, iv,e been trotting for roach with mixed colours and most of the bigger fish have come to the white maggot. Another favourite of mine is the disco orange colour,its worth trying different colours instead of sticking to just one.
White maggots are certainly my least favourite colour, I tend not to buy them unless I have no choice. Strange thing confidence
I take into account size and juicyness, in maggots as much as most things, but i dont see the almost fluorescent orange bronze maggots so much these days, nor yellows come to think of it. That Chrysodine was amazing stuff in its day - orange hands, cork rod handle, groundbait bowl..etc.
Now ive been wondering about this, i always buy mixed maggots,but always put a red one on hook ,for the life of me i do not know why i dont just buy red maggots, but i do find find red ones out score the white ones ,
next time i really will only buy some red ones.
Back in the 90's I used to import maggot every two weeks during the season into Norway. Having close links with breeders we tried most of the available colours, blue, green, yellow and purple and the fluoro colours too.
Most of the results (usually there were 5 of us using the 'special' colours) were that ordinary bronze or red maggot would out-fish other colours, even white. We would use them in practice club matches to see if there was an 'edge' but honestly we couldn't prove one.
I tend to use Red maggot for almost everything these days except when Bream fishing or somtimes when the target are Tench then I revert back to Bronze which I used to use for everything.
I am a great believer in flavouring maggot too, and again this was after extensive 'trials' with the team in Norway, typically we used spicy flavours in the colder months and sweet ones in the warmer months - usually flavoured maggot would out-fish natural ones.
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Its red maggot for me ,have tried whites and even tried blue ones once .The red seems to give me more bites .
Doesn't red turn black under water and in low light conditions .Could this mean fish are less spooked going over a darker bait on a dark bottom.(Most of my fishing is on silt and mud )
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