Maggots n flavours!

[Deanos]

Carp lads,

If you were using only maggots as hook bait and feed (in a stick etc).

Would you add a flavour, or keep em natural.

If flavours, would pinapple be a decent bet if no one else were using it?

big thanks, Deanos.

 

[Jeff Woodhouse]

Has anyone been chucking old pineapples into your lake for the carp to know the difference?

Seriously, last time I used maggots I flavoured them with some pineapple stuff (PVA friendly). NOT A BITE! NOWT, ZILCH, B****R ALL!

But you try.

 

[preston96]

Carp lads,

If you were using only maggots as hook bait and feed (in a stick etc).

Would you add a flavour, or keep em natural.

If flavours, would pinapple be a decent bet if no one else were using it?

big thanks, Deanos.

After many many years of trying i still cant answer that one truthfully..........but pineapple is one of my fav flavours, but i would advise using it very very frugally..........my other fav is tumeric,

 

[Frothey]

why mess with them, carp cant resist them anyway.

can't think of anything worse, ruining a perfectly good bait with a load of chemicals - if you really felt the need, then use a spice like Paul says.

 

[slime monster]

I could not agree more Frothy.

 

[strut5a]

tumeric in the winter, maize meal and brown sugar in the summer,

 

[Deanos]

Frothy, you may well be surprised that as the FM joker, I do actually listen to advice, big thanks.

I have got myself a whole new bunch of waters to fish this year, dead excited.

One last question Mr Frothy.
Every year, more n more baits, mountains of boilies.
Trigga always worked well for me, caught plenty of carp, chub n barbel on it, is still as good (or better) than anything out there, or does it come down to confidence and personnel preferences?

Regards and thanks to all, Deanos.

 

[Frothey]

Stick with Trigga - every "which boilie" question will have a thousand different answers, the real answer being that they all work if you stick it in the right place. Trigga's one of the better one's out there.

A mix of shelf life and freezer is better than just freezer baits if you listen to Ken Townley and Bill Cottam - and they should know!

 

[Lord Paul of Sheffield]

Deanos

There is a "liquid maggot" flavour - I've got some at home and can't remember the correct name - will look it out and post the name on here - I've used it and it did seem to attract bites more than maggots on their own.

cost £5 a bottle so if you try it and it doesn't work for you you've not lost much