peter crabtree
AKA Simon, 1953 - 2022 (RIP)
....gozzers and sour brans?
Does anybody bother with all that nowadays ?
I don't for sure, but I always get the blame whenever there are bluebottles in the houseDoes anybody bother with all that nowadays ?
Does anybody bother with all that nowadays ?
I've heard wobbled gozzers are catching those Z's down Dorking way ...
I don't for sure, but I always get the blame whenever there are bluebottles in the house
Gozzers are bred on meat eg pigeon or chicken. Sour brans are bred on a mixture of bran soaked in milk that's gone sour. Different flies and different maggots though both ideally soft.
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Does anybody bother with all that nowadays ?
Now that most of us have sheds or garages, it could be a good time to return to preparing our own bait. Gozzers on the hook rule OK.
I'm harbouring deep thoughts about giving it a go....
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In my young days Mark, gozzers could only be called gozzers if they had been fed on pigeons.
Ray Webb used to reckon that gozzers were one of the best tench baits.
Don't know where you got that myth from
Don't know where you got that myth from, Ron. Benny Ashurst used pigs' hearts, Ivan used chicken pieces. Colin Graham in the Kevin Ashurst book World Class Matchfishing says that there was a myth that the gozzer fly would only breed on pigeon but it was the meat being in the dark that mattered, and said that pigs' hearts, chicken or fish all worked. I suspect availability came into it and if you could get dead pigeons from a pigeon breeder then that was cheaper than buying hearts or chicken pieces from a butcher. I used an old disused coal bunker to get them to lay eggs when I bred gozzers back in the 70s. Best description of gozzers and sour bran specials is in the Benny Ashurst book.
As FL says no smell if you match the no of blows to the amount of meat.