How to grow your own maggots... a dynamite bait!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- howtofish.com.au I've been asked a number of times how to grow maggots without fuss or mess. The way I show you here is very simple and has very little smell. Just use a bucket, wood shavings, a fish body and you'll have bait for your next fishing trip. Maggots are a fantastic bait and work on so many species of fish so this method is well worth trying.
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Love your helpful videos. Can I suggest an improvement on the maggot breeder idea that I use is to have two buckets about the same size, one you drill holes in the bottom big enough for maggots to escape through. Place your dry material in both buckets (I like using Bran, which you can get bulk from a Stock food supplier), place the bucket with holes and fish scrapes inside the other one use some sort of spacer so there is a few inches gap between the two buckets. Now when the maggots breed they will escape through the bucket holes dropping down into the clean material of the second bucket (by their nature the maggots work downwards after eating looking for some dirt to pupate). The result is your maggots should collect in the clean bucket ready for harvest.
Covered every question I had all in 1 short video. Thank you thank you my friend and keep up the good work
Great video Wayne.
I was just thinking about this a week or so ago.
Will have to give it a go.
Mate if I could give you 10 thumbs up I would. I have always bought my maggots but didn't know how easy it was to grow them. Yes they are a brilliant bait. I use them for Tommies, Salmon, Bream and a few other salt water species. As a young fella I used to tie road kill above a creek in a tree branch and let the maggots (gents) drop into the water below. After a week or so I would move the road kill away and use some of the gents on a hook. surprising how quickly you will hook up Trout doing that.
Great video Wayne. I will be following your method to see how it goes. I will leave a comment in the future to let you know.
Oh and I hate buying bait.
Thank you for your brilliant idea! I am an aquarist and I used to spend a lot of money for my fish food so now onwards I am your follower. Thanks once again🙏
Hi, Glad I could help!
Honestly, I enjoy everything about Fish. it's a very enlightening information about producing maggots for fish bait.
Thanks for very much for this video, I really enjoy watching it in full, you
have an excellent channel. Best regards
/Ned 🎅🤝🤶
Really great video
Great idea. I use a sheeps heart hand it in a tree for a couple of hours, the flys find it pretty quick, once the heart has been blown wrap it in a few sheets of newspaper, leave it there for 6-7 days by then they will have eaten all the heart, then shake them into a small bucket of bran or oats. They will work their way through and toughen up in the process. You are right they will catch almost any fish although I haven't had much luck with them at Eucumbene.
Amazing ideas and descriptions!
Glad you got some benefit from it.
Best maggot vid I’ve seen, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is fantastic! Im going to clone your idea for my tropical fish, theyre gonna love it
Glad it helps. I feed them to my goldfish...and they love them.
Best maggot vid I've seen. Well done vid 🇦🇺🍷🍺
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video many thanks
Best Reg
thanks, glad you enjoyed it
GREAT VIDEO!!!! Actually not waiting to raise bait, was looking for a way to raise maggots and flies for my lizards ❤❤❤
I hope this helps.
Good video thanks very much
Thanks very much
You are welcome
A great presentation, total information necessary to achieve a useable of bait.
thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
can you make 2 new vids please 1 how to put maggots on hook without squishing them or killing them and other videos of how you got you wife to agree lol
Thks for sharing!
I wonder if that bait works for red fin in winter ?,I catch them on lures in the summer but lures don't seem to work in winter.
Nice vid, don't forget you can dye their food source for coloured maggots
Hi, that's a great idea. I've never coloured the food. I'll give it a try.
Fantastic, would be great for my garfish
Yes, they are a fantastic garfish bait.
Thanks for the informative video. Just wondering have you caught Luderick on maggots?
David, Newcastle NSW
Hi. Some years ago I fished Brighton Breakwater and bagged about five fish in a 2 hour session using maggots. At the time I thought they were Luderick but on reflection I think they might have been zebrafish....so I can't say for sure.
Brilliant.. thank you
Glad you liked it!
Great video will definitely give this a try. how to do we color them and use them dead instead of alive?
to kill them, place them in the freezer. To colour them, use food dye in bread crumbs. You want the crumbs to be almost dry out first before placing the maggots in otherwise, once wet, maggots can climb up the walls of a container.
@@howtofish5051 thank you
How are you today I went to Barwon river like to know your secret on what you use with your chicken The spice use today me and my partner put curry powder all over the chicken and it worked a big time and lots of lots of Burleigh I know to Burleigh works because one of the fish we caught it was full of the Burleigh if it wasn’t for your videos and tips not got as many fish as I did today one of my best days down there so I was hoping if you had A video on your secret recipe for chicken thanks Craig
I had to do my laundry when I was 14 and I had all this socks soaked in water for about 2 week or more which I
totally forgot about and later on when I smell something bad coming out of the laundry room I saw all these maggot
all over the bucket Loll..
all the step you done perfect but i will give u better idea .
breed fly in big box in your garage small light in the box and sugar and water . and put few pices of fish for few 12 hour and remove the fish in the container.
also when u have the naggot it better to keep them in flour to clean them self for few hours they
will be so white abd clean
cheers
Corn flour is good. The maggots get dry and clean and can't escape from container.
Nice.. How about bran or pollard for a medium? Thats how they come when u buy them in tackle shops in Adelaide
Yes, I have used bran in the past. What I have found to work best lately is a slightly moist medium so I use coconut coir that is damp, not wet. This keeps the maggots white, lively and they seem to last longer.
Cat litter would be a good medium, It's cheap absorbent & the granules keep separated. Can be used over & over!!
Thanks for the tip
My wife knows about it made me laugh so hard
Hi, my wife understands the need to keep maggots in the fridge. She's not happy about it.... but she understands!
I like making the maggots but I couldn’t even get a bite on them in the fresh water river here , as for making the maggots I put a bit of ol plain flour in the bottom , the wet maggots get coated with the flour and can’t climb anything , I also store mine in the fridge but yet to catch a fish on them , ? What sort of fish are you catching on them ? I ended up giving mine to the chickens lol.
My experience has been that maggots are one of the best baits for small to medium fish. I've caught trout, redfin, Golden Perch, Silver Perch, roach and carp on them in fresh water and garfish, mullet, bream, whiting, trevally and pinkies on them in salt water.
You want to present them as a live bait so you just put the hook lightly through the skin. This also means you need a small hook. I use size 14 up to size 10 hooks and catch some reasonable size fish...even with these small hooks
Better bait if you feed em and let em grow bigger ,
Yes, the bigger maggots are good
Easy fish bait.
why do your maggots look grey and not a bright white? i use bran instead of wood shavings and the come out bright white
These are fresh maggots that have not absorbed what they have eaten. In a few days they turn bright white.
How to make them \differtent
colors
You could add food colour.
Would shredded paper work?
Hi, shredded paper would work but they might get stuck in it and make them harder to sieve out.
@@howtofish5051 ok thanks. I can use shredded paper because I deliver newspapers and I can use the spares for that!
Nice one Wayne grew maggots myself a few times by mistake haahaa!! Great video! Have a new video myself hope you can check it out! I’ve subbed :)
Could u use meat
yes you can
Wayne o'keeffe keen to give it a try