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Whatever happened to those big juicy maggots you used to get in the tackle shops; the ones with the 3/16 inch food spot or sometimes two food spots, double yolkers we used to call them. The ones which used to push your fingers apart if you held them in a closed fist.
The ones we get today are what we used to call feed maggots, old stock or fish fed maggots.
IMO the quality started to drop off with the BSE epidemic which made it difficult for the breeders to get the offal and farm casualties they had traditionally used in the breeding houses and the start of the poultry and fish fed poor examples we have today.
I'm thinking of breeding a few gozzers just to remind myself what a proper maggot looks like.
The ones we get today are what we used to call feed maggots, old stock or fish fed maggots.
IMO the quality started to drop off with the BSE epidemic which made it difficult for the breeders to get the offal and farm casualties they had traditionally used in the breeding houses and the start of the poultry and fish fed poor examples we have today.
I'm thinking of breeding a few gozzers just to remind myself what a proper maggot looks like.