maggot (5)

Jackson

<P>maggot 5</P>
<P>Check for blows by lifting up the edge of
the croust which forms. These eggs are
tiny at first you might think you're looking at a smear of whitish dust,but you'll soon get the knack of distinguishing them. All you need do now is wait for them to grow. When they are fully grown, just scoop out some bran with them still in it , transfer it to a bait box and rush off to the canal. Brilliant boss baits are sour-bran specials.
That's the way I breed them. To make sure I have them for the early ays of the season I lay out two bowls of bran during the first week of June. I've known anglers who have complained that they just can't get the blows but , after talking to them, learnt that they've been trying to get them on a blob of sour bran offered in a small bait box. this was the trouble. Omce they offered two or three dry pounds soaked in water and milk, the right flies came along and procreated. So if ever you seem to be waitng too long for a hatch of eggs, try offering more sour bran. A bait box full isn't enough, appararently.
Other anglers I know have bred excellent sour-brans off a wild mix of rotting vegetable matter, they  add cabbage leaves, potato
peelings, sll sorts. One guy even trained his cat to pee on the bran. Ah, the lengths to which some people go to win matches.
However you procure yours, believe meyou have the boss canal bait- for coloured,summer canals at least, whose bream and roach predominate. You usually fish them over a patch of feeders in ground bait, so they must look like a fat version of the feeders that bream can soon become preoccupied with.  Whatever the reason , they work, and if all your canal fishing has so far been confined to using commercial maggots, you will be gratefully surprised at the difference this boss bait will make to your catches.
The only problem with soar brans is that they turn more quickly than other maggots into chrysalides. So even in a fridge , you  can't keep them much longer than four days.
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