Thread: maggots

Yep... why buy them if all you gotta do is put a fish carcass out for a day or two? I never used them before, but come summer time, when the garbage gets full of them, I'm gonna start collecting them for bait. As always, lots of good info on CDC!

John writes ya ya --different types of worms such as meal, wax, mousies
what are the "mousies" I always thought they were like a meal worm but people tell me know?

mousies are like maggots but have a tail on em

In short, Mousies ain’t mice and they ain’t cute. They are the aquatic larvae of a relatively nice looking fly called the Drone fly A fly larvae, as you may or may not know, is generally called a maggot. It so happens that the maggot of this particular fly is commonly called the Rat-tailed Maggot. Now there’s a name to inspire all kinds of nice thoughts. The necessity of calling them Mousies should become immediately obvious in polite society. For instance, my wife will allow me to put a container of Mousies in the refrigerator next to the salad dressing, but would have forbidden a container of Rat-tailed Maggots. Pre-schoolers love looking at Mousies but their parents will forbid them to look at Rat-tailed Maggots. Of course, I should mention that ice fisherfolk also call them Mousies because they do resemble a mouse in a somewhat horribly skewed way

heres a pic

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8739502...36798/sizes/o/

Thanks for all the replies everyone, some good info here. I will have to dig out my unused lindy small hook disgorger:p. I will start saving some fish and scraps for maggots also, good idea. I have used small 8-10-12-16 jigs over the years and smaller jigs and hooks have proven them selves many times to me I only go up to size 10 when i run out of 12s. I do enjoy catching small fish also though and they have come in handy as bait more than once.

Thanks to all & john h for all the good info on maggots, you guys sure make this a great site for all.