Fresh Fishing Bait Casters In Air Tight 1 Pint Sealed Bag - Lavender Tackle -

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That memorable day with Benny was spent on the Bridgewater Canal at Plank Lane, Leigh, near to his bait farm. Rinsing: Thoroughly rinse the remaining casters in clean water to remove any impurities that could affect their quality during freezing. Keep a few No8 shot with the main bulk so you have the option to push shot down the line to alter hookbait’s the rate of fall. Float tip colours

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. 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. By following these steps, anglers can efficiently freeze casters, maintaining their quality and ensuring a successful bait for future fishing trips. What is Better? Fresh or Frozen Casters Texture and Quality

Maggots can be used straight on the hook or again mixed into spod mixes and used in feeders and bombs. Some anglers will use a technique called ‘double maggot’ where 2 or maggots will be put on the hook at the same time. This tends to attract large carp. Maggots can also be hair rigged with a bait band. Rods branded as ‘bass rods’‘flatfish rods’ or ‘estuary rods’ are all the same – they’re about 11ft and cast up to 4oz. These rods provide more enjoyment when targeting species like bass and fatties which don’t grow that big, and also allow you to present fish with more subtly presented baits. These are not to be confused with bass rods used for lure fishing which are completely different again. The only two limitations of these rods is when you need to hold a lead in a current and when you need to pull through snags or pull a conger out of a hole. Otherwise, they are perfect for all UK shore fishing with baits.

Correct feeding is a major part of successful waggler fishing. Little and often is the general rule for smaller fish with half a dozen maggots or casters catapulted in every cast.

Casters are the next stage in the life cycle of a maggot. They are the chrysalis of a maggot – a shell-like pupae that contains the soon-to-emerge fly. I think it would be foolish to blindly think you will only catch fish on the caster tight across to features such as overhanging bushes, boats and man-made features such as bridge parapets, etc.

Also known as the Canadian Night Crawlers, are another great live bait for fishing. These are more favoured on natural fishing venues and are great for attracting large Perch, Chub, Bream, Eels, Tench, Pike and even Catfish! However they are most popular for fishing Sea Trout and Salmon. Dendrobaenas are used in both natural and commercial venues, to attract Tench, Chub, perch Roach and Carp. Most anglers will hook dendrobaenas straight on the hook. A good hook to use is the PR412 from Preston. Some will chop them up and mix them into groundbaits to create a choppie mix. This will then either be balled in or used in method feeders. Willy Worms supply many method feeders, from top brands such as Preston, Guru, Korum and Sensas. Casters vary in colour depending on how old they are but the mixture of shades of a caster, particularly the lighter ones stand out a mile off and this makes them very visual, so they are an easy target for carp to detect. You must, however, remember that though they don’t actually move, they are a living organism and they are not dead. Casters are simply part of the life cycle in between a maggot turning into a fly. The problem being that a caster is a chrysalis that wants to turn to a fly and all we can do is slow that process down to ensure the casters stay fresh. This means they require a little attention when keeping them. If you expose them to too much air they will go dark and float but if you give them no air at all they will die. You have to remember they are a living life form and need to breathe. If they get too warm it speeds up the process so you need to keep them cool and in airtight bags but they must be taken out of the bags and re-bagged every couple of days so they can breathe. By about day five, if the maggots we fresh you should start getting a 'show' of casters. They should be clean, because the regular riddling will have removed all the dead skins. The first off are the best and I used to out mine in damp kitchen paper, inside a plastic bag in the fridge, and keep them for hookbait. For distance casting, as you’d expect, the 13-foot version of the TX7 performs especially well. I was particularly impressed with the rod’s blank, too. With its core of high-pressure carbon fibre, it’s able to offer a tremendous amount of power while remaining remarkably lightweight, which is no mean feat.

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Casters work all year round but they are really at their potent best in autumn and winter. On many venues carp seem to switch off from boilies and pellets completely during this period but that doesn’t mean they’re not feeding. Experience has taught me that a blank is often not down to incorrect location but offering a food source that a fish is unwilling to eat at that stage of the year.” 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. Always politely ask for the freshest bait in the shop. You want fresh, soft, big maggots, the bigger, the better. Don’t buy old bait if you can help it because old maggots tend to shrink and become tougher skinned. The best thing to do with casters that have been frozen is to add them to ground bait. It will help bulk it up and the fish will still happily eat them. This will work well in the margins or adding them in a pole pot with the ground bait holding the caster shells together. Can you put additives in with the frozen casters?