cost of bait in your area

[Newt]

Consider yourselves lucky. I can't buy the things locally at any price. Options are to mail-order or grow my own. Or use meal worms or similar. Great bait item but substantially larger than maggots.

[Bruno Broughton]

Shropshire prices, Jan 2003:

 

bread: 15p/loaf (Safeway Super Savers)

wheat: £1.50/cwt

worms: free (but need pickaxe to collect 'em in this weather)

frozen prawns: £1.99/lb (supermarket offer)

fresh sea deadbaits: cheap (wait until 30 mins. before supermarket closes & scan reduced items corner - 6 whole sardines last week for 27p. Freeze at home).

 

 

Maggots? In short supply 'round here as the rural community still use 'em for cleaning wounds, in certain forms of witchcraft and for pub games Last barter price I heard of was a jar of damson jam for a brace of whites.

[Steve Burke]

In East Kent maggots vary between £1.50 to £2.20 pint, with £2 being typical.

[Scott]

In South Cumbria £2 a pint, casters no chance unless you order them over a week before.

If you pop into various shop's in the Lake District that might have a bit of tackle for sale in amongst the tourist type novelties you might find little carton's (like you get your mushy peas in at a chip shop) full of maggots for around £1.50 sat next to the Kendal mint cake.

 

Scott.