Tackle eating monsters

[Anthony78]

Hi Guy's,

I've had a spring clean in the garage today and to my horror I've found these little blighters eating their way through my bait bags and even my bivvy bag. Any ideas what they are?

I guess that they are some kind of moth as it looks like a chrysalis in the pic but I also found some maggot looking thing chewing it's way through my bag of tiger nuts.

 

Any ideas?

 

Cheers

 

Ant

 

Edited March 27, 2011 by Anthony78

[Steve Walker]

Clothes moth grubs. Will eat natural fibres, groundbait residues, dry hempseed, fly tying materials and tied flies, etc.

[Andy Macfarlane]

Moth balls and a few planks of cedar of Lebanon. That'll deter them.

[Tigger]

Some other moth deterrants are lavender and camphor.

[Steve Walker]

Good options for tackle - difficult to treat dry baits with anything that won't also deter or harm fish, though.

 

I had to laugh, I was reading one of the game fishing magazines, and there was an article suggesting that anglers should beware of scents transferred from their fingers to the fly while tying. My box of fly tying materials absolutely honks of mothballs, I doubt a wee trace of fragrance from the bathroom soap bar is going to stand out in the face of that!

[Anthony78]

Good options for tackle - difficult to treat dry baits with anything that won't also deter or harm fish, though.

 

I had to laugh, I was reading one of the game fishing magazines, and there was an article suggesting that anglers should beware of scents transferred from their fingers to the fly while tying. My box of fly tying materials absolutely honks of mothballs, I doubt a wee trace of fragrance from the bathroom soap bar is going to stand out in the face of that!

 

Always amazes me that WD40 can be used as an attractant for perch etc. It's a degreasing agent!!

 

Thanks for identifying the little blighters and how to get shot of them. Mothballs on the shopping list...check!!

 

 

Ant

[Elton]

I opened this thread, expecting to read about mice, but those things are just as much a PITA!

[Anthony78]

I opened this thread, expecting to read about mice, but those things are just as much a PITA!

 

I've been really lucky and only ever found one mouse (he say's while touching a piece of wood!) in the garage and managed to catch and release it down the canal. I wasn't expecting so find these bl**dy things eating their way through my bivvy though

 

Ant