wax or meal worms which are better

Wow, maggots are cheap. How do they store (keep). Cold stated above, but for how long? I fish twice a week in the Spring/summer, can keep crickets easily.


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Originally Posted by StantheMan2567

Wow, maggots are cheap. How do they store (keep). Cold stated above, but for how long?[/url]

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4-6 weeks is prime time, but they will keep longer with proper care. See here for more:

https://www.crappie.com/crappie/panf...aggot-fishing/

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Originally Posted by matt1991

for Bluegill id think the wax would be more juicy softer and slide onto a hook better but they are about half the size or so it seems meal worms seem to be bigger but a bit harder and maybe not as juicy idk though


which do you have more success with?

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Going fishing in the morning, just pulled about 50 of these mealworm pupa out of my colony. I fish side by side with my girlfriend, and the pupa always out produces the mealworm. And I have fished with someone using live crickets and it was neck and neck.

Leave some cut open tomatoes outside. You will have maggots.

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Originally Posted by silverside

Leave some cut open tomatoes outside. You will have maggots.

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That's fruit fly larvae, they are too small to fish with.

Hang a sun seasoned road kill carcass from a tree limb over your favorite fishing hole.Grab your gear and cast in amongst the falling maggots,you don’t have to handle the maggots trying to bait the hook,but you will need suffer arm fatigue.:fish

Past early spring, about the only worms I use are nightcrawlers. But early spring I like both maggots (spikes) and waxworms.

Mealworms for me, but, sometimes wax worms have to do. I msly use small jigs with crappie nibbles, they work great, also.