Not me though.
This was one of the main reasons I persisted with fake casters for barbel fishing. They resisted the crays and the smaller fish and the fact that, even if I say so myself, the set-up looked really good and very realistic.Many of my tench and a few of my barbel come out to fake maggots or casters each season, mainly on the leger and usually over a bed of dead flavoured maggots and hemp.
The plastic baits defeat crayfish and small perch but are less than effective for roach and chub.
I've had little interest in them either,but there is a fella who fished the lake I'm fishing and he uses rubber casters on a helicopter rigs with a feeder,catches a lot of tench,carp and odd BIG roach,I think maggot must work too,if your rig is right and correctly placed.
Many thanks for repairing my threads title whoever you were lol,it occurred after my auto correct tablet destroyed it.
Hi guys,just want to ask how people hair rig fake maggot/casters and why they think it works so well...
Back in my carp fishing days I had loads of success fishing the mag aligner over spodded dead maggot catching tench, bream and carp but never caught any silvers. I think fake maggots work because of the way these species feed on small baits, they not picking up individual food items but rather moving over the baited area and sucking multiple food items up at once and occasionally something sucks up the fake maggot. I honestly don't believe carp, tench and bream can single out the fake maggot in a heavily baited area presuming the bait is accurately cast
The only fake bait that I ever caught on is a plastic hemp seed under a stick float rig feeding boiled hemp. In fact, at times the fish were almost climbing up the rod on it.
When you get silver fish going on hemp their feeding turns into a frenzy. I well remember one session on the River Lea where all I needed to do was swing my arm as if I were feeding hemp to get the fish turning looking for it.
I only use fake hemp on the hook because it’s too fiddly putting the real seed on the hook. Maggots and worms rely on movement and odour and are easier to hook so I stick to the real thing for hookbait.