Quote Originally Posted by doctorxring View Post
I've fished for sunfish all my life (50+ years). Artificial and various live baits. But being a Texan I had never tried maggots. After reading deathb4disco's affirmations
about this bait I ordered a few thousand to give them a good try over a few week period. My fishing buddy and I decided to be discrete about (maggots)
to any of the locals because it was exactly as deathb4disco said. Sorry, but nuclear weapons for bluegill can only take so much proliferation.

Read my lips. MAGGOTS ARE DEADLY ON SUNFISH. We are on our second year of using them and it's nothing but good. A clean, easy to use bait of high effectiveness
year around. Bluegill, redbreast, and cracker. #6 Owner Mosquito hook on a drop shot bottom rig or quill slip float rig. You want a needle sharp hook because the maggots are surprisingly
tough skinned and a not so sharp hook will tear them rather than pierce them. The stay on the hook well often getting multiple fish before re-baiting with the usual
3 or 4 maggot load.

Glad they've worked out well for you!

As I've said before, one of the great mysteries of my fishing life is why I can't walk into a bait shop and buy maggots. It's the #1 live bait all over Europe. You can walk into any English tackle shop and walk out with a gallon of maggots. (And I don't mean a gallon of sawdust with a couple hundred maggots mixed in. I mean a gallon of maggots.)

Incidentally, the first time I ever heard of maggots as bait was about twenty years ago in the old "Southern Outdoors" magazine. This guy was using them for trout, and was just slayin' 'em.