Quote Originally Posted by deathb4disco View Post
I've been chumming with maggots for about 15 years and have never had this happen.

Remind me again how you got them. Did you buy them or grow your own? If you grew them, what kind of flies are they? Bluebottles (the kind I use), greenbottles and house flies all sink. If you grew them yourself, maybe you have something else. Can you post a pic of some of them?

Here's something else to consider: what bedding are you storing them in? I use yellow corn meal. Among other things, the corn meal helps to "degrease" the maggots. Anything that small with grease on it will tend to float.

P.S. I saw your post on "Maggotdrowning". groundhog gives some advice similar to mine.
Yep, I keep them in cornmeal. I think I know what I have been doing wrong. First of all, I've mostly been growing them in fish (ground up bluegill). Then I think I have been keeping them too moist. I didn't want them to dry out so I started keeping a little flat piece of sponge in the container with them. So I took some out and let them dry in the sun. Didn't seem to hurt them. I made three pva bags with maggots, cornmeal (I figured it would smell like maggots), and a little rock. Maybe it worked or maybe I would have caught them anyway. They didn't float to the surface, and the water was only about three feet in one spot, and five feet in another.