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And heres the sinkers https://youtu.be/JT8jgYIrfGE

I can only imagine the heart break of the time invested - the stench endured - only to turn them into icypoles no fish wants to eat But if I take a second to think about it - are frozen maggots an option as a bait I know I wouldn't piss on a frozen mullet - if a live one was on offer I wouldnt piss on a freshly caught and filleted mullet, if a live one was on offer coz I tentatively believe Mullet are a shit dead bait and the only thing they have going for them is their ability to wriggle for hours on a live bait hook. (but thats based on insufficient science, contradict

Haha - Yeah I didnt throw anything but lures for 10 straight years - but a switch has flicked and now I'm stuck obsessing over baits, Imagine giving the same level of thought, you have poured into lures, into your bait presentations - then going back and thinking about all the times you could have cleaned up, if you had known what you were doing as a baito. I cringe at some of the opportunities I pissed away as a Young fella - alot of them dont even exist to a lure fisherman anymore But a crafty lad with a punnet full of maggots - he might be able to rewind the clock 30 years -

Yeah I sometimes question my sanity, with the lengths I will go to to work something trivial out - especially when its already been worked out before - by 100's of other people - and its not even that important in the first place But I'd be lying if I said I had not lost sleep wondering how to breed maggots better under the parameters I have set

Yeah I've bought maggots before but now I've started on this journey - I'm going to see it through till I perfect the art. I caught my first decent bream on maggots in a spot where they were supposed to be hard to catch. I had tried with other baits and they were very hard to catch - but once the maggots got involved, they turned me into a bream catching machine - this started and evolution in my fishing which led to spending millions on lures and catching bugger all compared to my early catches on maggots. So my obsession with these creepy units runs deeper than I am proba

Here's the last footage I got before harvest - at this stage there might have been a slight chance to separate them from the paper - but by the next day - it had turned to sludge

Thanks for the tip Lofty - I like the way you think I think I'll move away from anything a maggot can grip onto for my next batch - that means skinned carp fillet. What I noticed with using a can of cat food was - separating the maggots was a piece of piss - as you start adding heads and frames - it gives the maggots something to hang onto - this means you will be tempted to shake them out and splatter your legs with some of the foulest smelling bits known to man. It also adds time to the part of the process you definitely dont want to add time to Theres alot to be said for th

Yeah before the sorting process I was congratulating my self on how well prepared I was I had my rubber gloves on - I'd already dug a 2ft pit for the scraps - I had the hose ready to rinse the maggots in a sieve - I had the bran all ready in there storage container My plans of a smooth operation flew out the window when the stench set it - from then on it was a mixture of panic and rash decisions Trying to pry open the head, to get all the maggots out, unleashed a smell worse than Satan's bung hole and thats when I started to panic - after that I was cutting my losses and tryin

Yeah I got a bit frustrated towards the end of the sorting process and was just chucking out as much maggots as mushy paper. I recon without the paper it would have been a much easier task I found the paper really handy when I used cat food - its was so simple to sort those ones - but the carp and newspaper was a different kettle of fish

Well that was a freaken night mare Here's some stuff I learnt about using carp for maggots There is a heap of moisture in a carp as it breaks down - so you would either need a bucket with a drain to let it out - or about 10 times the newspaper I used If you dont use enough newspaper it will break down and turn into a sludge - a maggot infused sludge that is very difficult to pick maggots out of. Also dont use the head - they just burrow in and hang on when you are trying to shake them out End result was a hell of alot of mucking around and I lost 2/3rds of the maggots

Yeah I recently re-read this thread and all the advice you gave was spot on - I've put Newspaper under and on top since that photo was taken. The flies were straight onto the fish just like you said they would be - no more canned cat food for my maggots

Just when you thought it was all over - It begins again - this time with fish. Dont worry I'll spare you nearly all the details - but it will be interesting to see how many maggots come off one carp carcass And the fillets will go towards feeding the local snapper population

Here's what was going wrong first time round

First time round - everything was frozen and not enough stuff in the bucket. Everything was just getting flung around like a tornado - This time I thawed everything first and added more ingredients

Yeah I've never lost that much money in a session but I used to have a 3 ecogear a session limit - after that, I'd finish it out with soft plastics.

I used to fish everyday after work and throw hard body lures for bream on shallow rock banks. At the time I was using ecogear sx40's and if you lost 3 of those in a session - it would start to add up - and if you were doing it five days a week and twice on the weekend - it really added up. So it was losing ecogears that made me search out cheaper alternatives. When strikepro came out with an almost identical copy for half the price - I switched to those and didnt noticed a drop in catch rates. Thats started my search for even cheaper lures. By the end of my serious "breaming on

As its bucketing down in Melbourne - I figured I do a walk through of my "Tackle Tip"

Yeah that last one is a bit suss but would also be pretty handy in some situations

Yeah some of the big hook manufacturers encourage you to use a hook only once - my 10c jobs can last 3 sessions being mauled by pinkies and still be needle sharp with no rust

With rods and reels I tend to stick with Daiwa Shimano Pfluegars and Abu. I used to spend more but these days I dont like spending over $125 on either a rod or reel - but I will stretch that for some of my light lure set ups. (no more than $200) My braid and fluoro is Kast King - Super cheap and has passed all my strength and in the field tests. I can top shot my reels with 100m of braid for about $4 with a limp braid, that out performs braids 20 times the price I use alot of plastic lures these days and most of them are just cheapies off ali express or ebay - I did go through a

Yeah the only attention I pay to moons is how they effect the timing of the tides I'll fish any night as long as the tides are right