The colour of maggots ....

[GlennB]

Is it really possible that maggots of one colour might blank while maggots of a different colour might score well ?

Edited March 10, 2006 by GlennB

[Brian Carragher]

Absolutly, not just the different colours that fish on a certain day show a preference for but also for different flavours on the same day.

[chesters1]

anyone knows red ones attract small perch i suspect they actually rush from ponds miles away to eat mine.

yes they seem to but it changes one day the roach may prefer bronze ones the next white.

i experimented with colouring my own as a youth (chrysodine !!!!!!) and managed to produce green ones and even black ones (food dye in the meat) but none were a "killer" bait that caught all the time, fish just went off them and started on another colour

so plenty of colours will catch fish but different ones turn fish on at different times

[Bob Bradford]

Match fishing on the Tidal river Yare fishing the swimfeeder requires several different coloured Maggots and a change of colour would result in more bites, but one colour maggot was head and shoulders above the rest ...Home bred Gozzers dyed Fluorescent Pink! all the top boys made the considerable effort of breeding their own and then dying them, it took the best part of a week from the correct blows to riddling them off on the Saturday morning before going to the match, it is a science believe me, if you got the wrong flys to blow on your sheep's heart you were wasting your time! how to get the correct type of fly? ..location! placing the sheep's heart in the correct environment is essential, so too the timing of applying the dye, get that wrong and the maggots would die,leave it too late and they do not take the dye properly..so to sum up ..yes! the colour of a maggot can be critical .

[Norfolkdan]

I think colour can be a very important factor when fishing. When trotting on the River Dove last October the only maggot colour I was catching on was yellow (not bronze). Yellow and red worked quite well too, but reds on their own didn't get a bite.

[MESMORISE]

there used to be a maggot farm where i used to live, they even did blue strange i thought

[Dick Dastardly]

Yes I think it does to.My allround favourite has to be red allthough for chub and Barbel I prefer bronze.

 

Some days just changing the colour of the one on the hook can make such a difference.

 

Another favourite of mine is that when fishing for roach in coloured water Ive found two fluro orange pinkies on a size 22 deadly!

 

Ive seen blue and green ones to but never caught on one!

[gozzer]

Match fishing on the Tidal river Yare fishing the swimfeeder requires several different coloured Maggots and a change of colour would result in more bites, but one colour maggot was head and shoulders above the rest ...Home bred Gozzers dyed Fluorescent Pink! all the top boys made the considerable effort of breeding their own and then dying them, it took the best part of a week from the correct blows to riddling them off on the Saturday morning before going to the match, it is a science believe me, if you got the wrong flys to blow on your sheep's heart you were wasting your time! how to get the correct type of fly? ..location! placing the sheep's heart in the correct environment is essential, so too the timing of applying the dye, get that wrong and the maggots would die,leave it too late and they do not take the dye properly..so to sum up ..yes! the colour of a maggot can be critical .

 

That's right Bob, how do think I got the name? We used to use pigeons to breed gozzers on, it was always a bit hit and miss with us. We only used to use anatto as dye, putting a paste on the feed, got a deep yellow colour that was brilliant on the right day. As for normal maggots, I use mainly bronze and reds. I think the colour often depends on colour of water and what sort of bottom the swim has, in that some colours of bait are more visible in certain conditions.

[GlennB]

OK thanks

Never again will I ask for "a pint of bronze maggots". Will go for multicoloured and ring the changes.

[RUDD]

Is it really possible that maggots of one colour might blank while maggots of a different colour might score well ?

 

Yes

 

even stranger is that you can feed one colour and not get a bite, put a different colour on the hook and away you go!!!!!!!!!!

Saw the club sec fishing his caster line on tuesday and he could not get a bite on caster, he put on a red maggot over the caster and had several quality roach - could be that his caster on the hook was not presented correctly but the maggot on its own (as none were feed on that line) looked fine.

 

My favorite colour is red as I have found most fish in a stillwater prefer red, especially near the bottom.

 

For up in the water fishing I prefer mixed colours as I belive if the fish feeding in the upper water are only taking say the whites and bronze, the reds will reach the bottom which could lead to bonus fish such as tench or bream and I have even found while catching rudd and small roach in the uppers I have connected with shouls of bigger roach on reds underneath in the mid to lower layers.