Thread: QUICK GUIDE TO RAISE MAGGOTS FOR BLUEGILL FISHING

I do keep a small light on over my worm beds to keep them from crawling out. I will use shredded newspaper mixed with peat moss and miracle grow as their bedding. Once a week I feed mine yellow corn meal or bananas. Keep the bedding moist but not wet. They are always ready to go fishing when I am.

I've been raising red wiggles for over 2 years but the stupid things aren't big enough to fish with

Originally Posted by no luck

I've been raising red wiggles for over 2 years but the stupid things aren't big enough to fish with

Start feeding them yellow corn meal and shredded newspaper weekly. Once a month they get some banana slices and lettuce for desert. Keep the bedding damp but not wet. I keep a small 5 watt light on over them at all times so they do not try to escape and they can read the newspaper in bed. They reproduce rapidly. Mine reaches about three inches in about a month. I have had a steady supply through natural reproduction now well on 14 years and counting.

I feed them cornmeal and vegetable scrapes I have bunches of worms they just so small it's hard to put on a hook

Originally Posted by no luck

I feed them cornmeal and vegetable scrapes I have bunches of worms they just so small it's hard to put on a hook

Use a smaller hook. I never use red wigglers, precisely because they are too big. Any grub bait is far better than worms, IMO.

Originally Posted by no luck

I feed them cornmeal and vegetable scrapes I have bunches of worms they just so small it's hard to put on a hook

As Larry Dahlberg said, a bluegill has a mouth the size of a Cheerio.

Smaller baits work better.

you should look into ice fishing jigs. they dont -have- to be used through the ice, but they are tailor-made for those spikes, maggots, mousies, chena bait, all that jazz. but in my personal experience, having seen several gills in my life over 12 inch, the truly huge ones have teeth and they prefer to eat minnows.