OK, what kind? Tinned, frozen, fresh, on the cob, off the cob? How many bits to use?
Is it just fished under a float?
Out of a tin, usually one bit sometimes two, fish under a float (trotting just like maggot or worm). That's how I do it anyway, seem to work.
I agree. One piece (from a tin) trotted. Go for the cheap stuff as the knobs are usually smaller and feed the fish less. Avoid Green Giant as the reverse is true.
You can use the frozen stuff, but its a lot softer.
As Fergie says, you can use a bigger hook.
Off the thread here, but I did well over the last 2 seasons using chenille egg patterns off the fly rod. You could trot these too. I fished these with a heavyish dropper to take the egg down and the lightly weighted egg on the point.
Indicator was either a Fish Pimp or a poly yarn shuttlecock.
Heresear,
What colour of egg pattern do you use, I've tried "eggs" a few times but with limited success. You could probably trot them under a float I'd think.
Norm
Norm,
Fluoro orange on about a 14. they worked on stretches with salmon and also on stretches without salmon.
Some places have banned it I believe, but others still allow it.
I had a productive day on Loch Rutton for roach a few years ago. I was feeding corn and some of the roach were shitting it out when I was unhooking them, but the corn had been digested in part at least. It was just the husks that were coming out. But then, roach are cyprinids with pharangeal teeth to grind up what they swallow. Grayling dont have these as far as I know, so maybe the corn doesn't get digested.
In most situations I prefer to fish maggots anyway as they won't fill the fish up so easily.
Quotetrout love it but cant digest it
Isn't that the way it is. We all love the things that are bad for us. Looks like fish are no different.
A ghillie on the Earn told me he had found dead salmon parr stuffed with sweetcorn which had, presumably, blocked the fish's gut.
Looks like sweetcorn is off the menu then.
Is the gillie making this assumption about the deadly effect of sweetcorn on salmon based on a scientific sample of one or are they dying in shoals? :?
I've had sea trout on corn too Fergie. Also on bread, roach livebait about 4oz, and a 7" Rapala . I also know of them caught on a half herring. :(
Oh ,and sometimes they will take a fly! :lol:
Nice one Ardbeg. Corn is back on the menu :)
Sweet corn is apparently indigestable for humans,but I've never heard of problems with fish,it is used extensively for coarse fish south of the border and has been so for many years.I personally wouldn't use it for Grayling purely as I've found worms and maggots to much more sucessful.Sweetcorn is heavy bait that was always legered when fishing for chub or barbel,I caught both of these from waters that contained grayling,I never caught a grayling with corn,but when trotting with live baits caught both .
Hi Burnie,
I find the corn is my most successful bait for grayling. I don't bother feeding it, just pop a kernel on the hook and off I go. Fish the worm a lot as well but no with as much sucsess. Never use maggots as I can't get hold of them near me.
I suspect that sweetcorn is going to be banned all over the place for Grayling as supposedly salmon parr have been killed due to stuffing themselves with corn that has been loose fed. Old wives tale if you ask me but Salmon is king (or so it seems)!
Norm
Hi Norm
I could go into details of how to breed your own maggots but I fear,1 ,I'm on the wrong kind of web site ,2 ,your wife may well be after me to give me a good kicking.Seems women don't take kindly to maggots,especially in the house fridge(at least mind objected).