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Fishing
Baits
The Maggot
care of your maggot
fishing with maggots
The Pinkie
care of your pinkies
fishing with Pinkies
The Squat
care of your squats
fishing with squats
The Gozzer Maggot
fishing the gozzer
The Caster
care of your caster
fishing with casters
hooking casters
Worms Lobworm
Dendrobaena Worm Redworm
Brandling
Bloodworm and Joker
Bread Baits
Paste
Flake
Crust
Punch
Liquidised
Mashed
Paste Baits
making paste baits
using paste baits
Luncheon Meat
fishing with luncheon meat
Cheese
fishing with cheese
Particle Baits
preparation
fishing with particles
Sweetcorn
feeding sweetcorn
colouring and
flavouring
imitation sweetcorn
Hemp
preparation
fishing with hemp
Tares
preparation
fishing with tares
Maple Peas
preparation
fishing with maple peas
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Fishing
with Pinkies
The Pinkie
The Pinkie is the pupae of the small green bottle (Lucilia sericata)
also a species of blow-fly, it is produced in the same way as other
maggots. Up to 20 eggs are laid in wounds or cuts on decaying meat,
fish, poultry or other animal or bird. Pale yellow or greyish-white
larvae hatch in between a few hours to three days, and begin feeding
on the decomposing animal matter they were hatched in, turning a
pinkish colour as they feed. They are fully grown in two to ten days,
when they will seek soil in which they will burrow to pupate. The
adults then emerge to mate, thus beginning the cycle again.
The maggots of the green bottle fly are known to consume dead tissue
while leaving live tissue intact, and so have been sold for use in
maggot therapy. Nothing to do with fishing but just thought I'd
mention it.
Care of your Pinkie
The cleaning and keeping of Pinkies is similar as for maggots.
When you buy your pinkies from a fishing tackle shop they may already
be cleaned and will usually be sold in sawdust, maize flour or other
such medium. If they have not been cleaned do this yourself by first
riddling them to get rid of any skins and dead pinkies. Then put them
in a container and add some clean dry bran (bran is best but you can
use maize flour, this keeps them softer than sawdust. Now put a lid on
the container and put them into a fridge at low temperature until you
are ready to use them. Pinkies can be kept for weeks and they stay
active longer than maggots. On the day of your fishing trip just check
to see if they need another riddle.
WARNING.
Pinkies are even better escapees than Maggots so do not let them get
wet.. Pinkies are notorious for escaping when they get damp or wet and
they can and will climb vertically up the sides of containers or bait
boxes.
As with maggots, you can flavour pinkies to give them an added fish
attractant but with pinkies use a powder. The powdered
flavouring can be added to the bran before you put the pinkies in the
fridge or added on the bankside at the time of fishing but add the
flavouring about 20 minutes before use to allow the pinkies body time
to absorb the flavouring. If you have a large amount of pinkies split
them up into smaller containers because as they crawl over each other
they can get hot and sweat and you may find if there is even the
slightest gap in the container you have pinkies all over the place. A
large amount of pinkies in one tub could generate so much heat that
they will die.
Pinkie tends to keep for longer.
Fishing with Pinkies
The Pinkie is mainly used for smaller fish due to its size. When
fishing Pinkie use singularly or double on a fine wired hook size of
20 - 24. The Pinkie is an ideal bait when bites are hard to come by
especially in the cold days in winter. When float fishing with Pinkie
on the hook feed Squats in a fine sloppy groundbait. Pinkies can also be used
as loose feed.
To buy
pinkies in your area check out
Local Fishing Tackle and Bait Shops
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