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Red maggots produce lovely, dark casters but are usually smaller than white maggot casters as the dyeing process reduces the size. They don't like the taste of the dye on their food and leave it earlier. Bronze maggot produces terrible casters in my experience as the dye burns them and they really shrivel up.
To make a pint of casters you will need just over a pint of maggots – to take into account those that will die. The best maggots to use to create casters are white maggots. Coloured maggots just do not make good casters, probably due to the fact that they contain impurities, in the form of dies, that don’t help the fly’s metamorphosis. Boasting a massive selection of Fishing Gear and Angling Equipment at fantastic prices, we have everything for the beginner and advanced angler. We supply fly, sea and coarse fishing rods from all the top brands, including: Hardy, Greys, Loop, Sage, Abu Garcia, Chub, Daiwa, Shakespeare and many more. Single or double maggot or casters are superb waggler baits because they fall slowly and enticingly through the water, aided only by two No8 dropper shot. And trust me, your wife will thank me for this tip as it prevents escapees, which means no bluebottles at a later date swarming into the house and causing unnecessary earache!
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The blank also provides plenty of power with minimal input, which makes pulling off longer casts feel effortless, rather than being a struggle. Tiny things, but anything which makes you feel happier and more confident to sit behind rods for days on end is always worthwhile.” The longer you can sit on your hands before catching that first fish, the more confident they will have grown and potentially the more you will catch. Think of this style of fishing as feeding a line, but not fishing it until later in the day. The longer the fish have to settle on that line, the more readily they will bite. The maggot forms a hard, brown outer shell before eventually metamorphosing into a fly. This is the same process by which a caterpillar forms a chrysalis before emerging as a butterfly.
Caster fishing. Is there a more exciting or more rewarding style of fishing when the fish are having the shell? Personally speaking, I don’t think so. A healthy bend in the rod shows this isn’t a roach and a couple of minutes later a 3lb mirror carp comes to the net. This is a rod that comes in test curves of 3 and 3.25 lbs; as I anticipated, the 3.25lb offering did bring more to the table in terms of power and casting performance over longer distances.Kev Hewitt Features 22-11-2014 00:00:00 Casters in action! Kev Hewitt constantly attains unbelievable results of big fish on short overnighters and he finally reveals how. His secret: caster bags! Hooklength material is a personal choice and while I use some line that you cannot buy any more – the modern-day choices for me would include Drennan Supplex, Preston Precision Power and Colmic Stream. They are all accurate, diameter-wise, and all are strong, durable and reliable. Old line, new line: Alan’s favourites for caster fishing. Elastication
The Stealth Graphene is another excellent choice for carpers looking for the best distance casting rod they can get their hands on. It’s available in lengths of 12 and 13 feet and a wide range of test curves. You will also need a supply of fresh, quality sawdust, not too fine as dust stops maggots breathing properly, which makes them sweat and sweaty maggots are only fit for the bin.Steve uses Drennan Double Strength hooklengths. The diameters he uses for particular sizes/species of fish are listed below. High-end competition continental style rods, like the Tronix Pro Competition, offer long casting distance with a light and thin blank. Lower-priced options, such as the Shakespeare Salt XT Long Surf, are still upper-middle end compared to other beach casting rods and provide the distance needed for fishing in large estuaries and shallow beach marks at a lower cost. When fishing weedy waters, I pay a lot of attention to detail when finding the right spot to fish a bag of casters. Careful plumbing with braid to find the clear spots is what I am looking for. I am not a massive fan of fishing PVA bags in weed and will always opt for the clearest, hardest spots I can find, which I see as dinner plates on which the carp like to come and feed. On the busier waters it is often the case that the clear spots are only clear because they are fed on regularly, so a PVA bag of casters on a dinner plate is a recipe for success. Casters are a great bait in the winter months on natural venues like rivers and canals. However casters really come into their own in the spring and summer months, where they are a fantastic bait for Carp and Chub on commercial fisheries.
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