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maggots needed

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Topic: maggots needed
Posted By: zimbo
Subject: maggots needed
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2006 at 4:33pm

hi gents do you know of any body that sells maggots? i want to use them for coarse fishing i can not breed them my self as i stay in a block of flats and the people that i stay with will complain about the smell. so any help will greatly be appreciated.

 

   thanks

   zimbo

  tight lines every one


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Posted By: Finatic
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2006 at 4:43pm
Try a pet shop Zimbo. Most of them stock flies and crickets for the reptiles. So where there's flies, there's bound to be maggots.

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What's the cheapest type of meat? Dear balls. They're under a buck.

Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2006 at 4:46pm
you could also ask PD Squid to empty out his Y-fronts!!

Posted By: Peter da Squid
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2006 at 4:48pm
hey, your pig skinned g-string aint too healthy either!

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Good for Nuthin

Posted By: Bender
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2006 at 5:10pm

Predictable!

The westie boys trying to outgross each other.



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Nobody has ever come up with a great idea after a second bottle of water.

Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2006 at 5:14pm
you will agree thou Bender that there is one clear winner on the day and by a good LENGTH at that!...

In all seriousness Zimbo...

HollyWood Fish Farm in Mt Roskill always used to have an assortment of maggots / mealworms etc destined as live food....they should be able to help.

Posted By: Bender
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2006 at 5:24pm
No you mention it I've seen them at Jantzens in Mt Eden Rd too.

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Nobody has ever come up with a great idea after a second bottle of water.

Posted By: zimbo
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2006 at 5:27pm

thanks gents will try the pet shops,if nothing then will get in touch with hollwood fishing farm.

pd spuid how about thoes maggots!

Posted By: Krill
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2006 at 5:34pm

Good one fellas.

Zimbo I dont think anyone is growing them here. I may be wrong. Now there's a good business for you. They are actually very easy to grow from all accounts. They have really bad connotations for most of us in NZ because most of us have seen them on dead animals and rotten and putrefying food or flesh. It dosnt necessarily have to be so. Its not the maggots that are so disgusting as the putrifying flesh etc. Believe overseas they grow them on a liquid diet of meat juices and other stuff and they only take 3 or 4 days to grow to the proper size in the right conditions. They are then washed and put into containers, sometimes dyed, the facilities are cleaned, and the cycle starts over again.

Crickets are good fish bait too. Likewise Huhu bugs but you cant use them on trout they are illegal I believe

Posted By: Krill
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2006 at 5:37pm
Zimbo, Didnt think of that Yeah Hollywood Fish Farm and Jantzens may be able to help.

Posted By: Finatic
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2006 at 5:39pm
Put your smelly old fish scraps in the bin and a couple of days later the bottom of the bin will be crawling with the little blighters.

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What's the cheapest type of meat? Dear balls. They're under a buck.

Posted By: Krill
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2006 at 5:40pm
BA , Your not getting "the hive" and the  rubbish bin mixed up are you? 

Posted By: Rupecop
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2006 at 7:18pm
Think I went to a shop in milford that sold them. Ring first though.


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