Boilieboy

Do you think that different spieces of fish like different coloured maggots/bait?

(sry, im kinda new to fishing.)

waveneyone

Yes, different species like different coloured maggots. For roach, eels and chub, you can't beat bronze imo but for carp and bream, red seem best.

Wasn't it Dave Thomas that died of cancer. His wife blamed the fact that he used too many bronze maggots and when he went to pee put the dye onto him and that caused the cancer. That is why chrysodine is theoretically banned from use these days. However, nothing else touches it for dying maggots and if your hands go orange, then you can be sure chrysodine is the culprit.

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Brian G

It was Clive Smith of the old Cofton Hackett team, Clive was also a tackle dealer so he would have been handling bronze maggots all the time.

waveneyone

You are absolutely right Brian, Clive Smith it was, Cofton Hackett and the Shakespeare Superteam. Saw his name in the AT this morning in the artcle about Ken Giles and realised I had made a boo boo, although there was no mention of Chrysodine. At the time, I believe the AT was a forerunner in getting chrysodine banned.

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waveneyone

It was his mum who blamed the chrysodine initially I believe. Mind you with my memory, it could have been his grandfather's aunty ;-)

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