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Were Maggots Bigger in the Old Days??


Martin56

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I'm talking the early 70's compared with today!! (when my Angling career started)

One gets all sorts of Maggot sizes in a Pint of Maggots these days.

OK so squats are the House Fly Maggots?? Pinkies are the Greenbottle?? & Gozzers being the Bluebottle??

Seems the Maggot Farms are not as particular these days.

A Pint of Maggots in the 70's were ALL Gozzers unless otherwise requested!!

You could ALWAYS Bury a size 16 in a Gozzer Caster in those days - Not so often now!!

Maybe more about turnover & money these days??

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Everything was bigger back then FNAR, not noticed i rarely use them but they seem more palid today ,i prefer them dipped in cancerous chemicals than todays more natural dyes

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I think even nowadays the same species of maggots vary in size.  Maybe it depends on the farm where they are raised or temperatures etc.

I do think maggots were always bigger and fatter when I was a kid.

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Mine were bigger as I bred my own from scraps of good meat from my friendly butcher and my mum was ok with the smell

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As has been said, everything was bigger in the good old days !

My good old days were in the 1940s - Britain at war and the countryside almost unchanged since mediaeval times.

I invented/discovered fishing for myself - as far as my family went I was First Angler

Homemade rod, reel, and real linen thread line, all tackle home-made (read "Angling Vagabond" for details) Two things I knew nothing about were split shot and maggots.

The absence of split shot was weird - if your float cocked - you had a bite ! Bait was worm or flour paste.

It was not until my aunt married an angling farmer that I learnt of these innovations -  my floats cocked and became more manageable and maggots were THE bait. These maggots were "farmers' maggots", bred from deceased hens, turkeys, lambs, pigeons, rats, - you name it...   Big maggots, but not fat - " lean, mean and far from clean" best describes them.

Ah - the good old days - almost the last thing the late Roger Standen  (I recommend his book "Always Fishing")  said to me was "Dave, I reckon we've had the best of it".

 

 

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