Thread: Shrimp rated number one bait in university study

It's a great bait for lots of stuff, as long as you either cure it with salt or keep it on ice...if you wouldn't eat it, don't fish with it.

I don't doubt shrimp is a good bait, but I'd put live maggots up against it any day of the week.

I was waiting for you to respond. My best friend here is a world champion match fisherman. He is well known in the EU for his fishing skills and 99% of the bait used is maggots. He is banned here from all trout fishing tournaments here. When they first started only 1 or 2 people would catch their limit in a day. He had his limit in 5 minutes, yep, maggots. He was winning all of them and the committee got fed up.

Originally Posted by jigtosser

I was waiting for you to respond. My best friend here is a world champion match fisherman. He is well known in the EU for his fishing skills and 99% of the bait used is maggots. He is banned here from all trout fishing tournaments here. When they first started only 1 or 2 people would catch their limit in a day. He had his limit in 5 minutes, yep, maggots. He was winning all of them and the committee got fed up.

Is your friend Randall Akin? :D

I knew it, I knew it. You do know who he is. We have been good friends for 40 years.

RA was the first guy I heard of who was using maggots and the English/European floats. He had several nice write-ups in the old Southern Outdoors mag back in the early to mid-1990's. I read those articles and never looked back -- been slaying gills with maggots ever since. I have not used them as much for trout, but they worked great when I did.

They must be talking about grass shrimp. When I lived in Louisiana I would catch grass shrimp easily using a long handle fine mesh net and scooping up under grass along a shore line. Where I fish most of the time now there is no grass along the shore, but now that you have mentioned it I will be a little observant for such.

I read about shrimp being the best bait many, many years ago in an old Outdoor Life magazine.