It's a rare thing for me to use them. If I'm using maggots, I'm usually fishing for anything with fins, and often on a river. I prefer live maggots for that. I'm also loathe to deliberately kill live maggots that I've paid good money for. I rarely end up with loads of unused, waste or past their best maggots that I'm happy to shot in the freezer or pour hot water over. I'm also not keen on paying for the large quantities that people seem to be using when employing such feeding methods.
If you want a change of bait for the hook from live to dead maggot just roll one firmly on your foreleg or on the palm of your hand with your forefinger..
Saves killing a load of bait unnecessarily..
I had the idea of throwing out a tethered feed bag of groundbait and crushed particles in the margins of a large lake this summer... granted it wasn't frozen, but even without any flow it still attracted hundreds of crazy fish into the swim - boy did I bag-up that day!Hmm,got me thinking,this. A load of mags in a block of ice which is somehow tethered in the head of the run you maybe trotting in, gradually melting and releasing a trickle of ground bait automatically. Might try this for grayling.
.... A load of mags in a block of ice which is somehow tethered in the head of the run you maybe trotting in, gradually melting and releasing a trickle of ground bait automatically. Might try this for grayling.