There is no need to explain why fishermen paint bait for fishing. The conversation will focus on how to paint a maggot. It should be immediately noted that modern food chemistry allows you to paint in absolutely any color, but... Here and now more archaic methods of painting maggots, without the use of food chemistry, will be described. Considering the simple fact that almost absolutely all colors are found in food, and the very thin walls of the body of this “worm” are absolutely not a problem to paint in any color. The only difficulty may be the cost of such an operation.
For example, if you wish, you can paint it black, but it is extremely expensive. You need to take black caviar, crush it, plant maggots there, and after at least 4 hours the desired color will be obtained. But such a color will be unreasonably expensive! Although the topic of painting time was raised.
Time to paint maggots
- Minimum time 4 hours
- Recommended time 6 hours
- Desirable time from 8 hours and above
It is necessary to make an explanation on the last point. The fact is that by using food as a dye, the fisherman achieves two effects at once! The first is directly obtaining the desired color.
The second is not so obvious, but also far from superfluous: when the maggot feeds, it grows and, therefore, increases in size. Moreover, if it is specially fed, it can produce quite large “silver carp”. Therefore, the longer the bait sits in a jar with products for coloring, the larger it becomes. So we smoothly approached the topic of coloring itself.
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How to paint a maggot red and other colors
You can buy red maggots, but you can also paint the ones you’ve already bought yourself. This maggot is no different from the usual one - it is simply painted.
- The first way is to feed the maggot with colored food. Maggot loves cottage cheese, both fresh and slightly expired. Color the cottage cheese with food coloring, which can be purchased at any grocery store. The maggot will eat this food and turn a red-pinkish color.
- The second way is to color the maggot directly with food coloring.
- The third way is to give the maggot a bloodworm. He will definitely eat it and turn bright red.
Paint the maggot white
- To paint a similar color, you can use cottage cheese; if you have missing cottage cheese at home, then use it.
- Flour is also suitable for painting white.
- You can also use sour cream.
One of the most popular natural dyes is egg white. To do this, you need to boil the egg, separate the yolk from the white, grind the white, let it cool (the goal is not to cook the bait, but to fatten it and paint it) and place it in the resulting maggot pulp. You can grind in different ways, but for the really lazy ones, using a blender is suitable. The question arises: where does the yolk go, it’s a pity to throw it away...
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Painting red
Take regular beets, boil them, cool them, grate them or, if desired, grind them in a blender. The question arises, why is everything so simple? Maggot is an extremely primitive organism; it eats and becomes colored, moreover, it acquires the same taste. There is no need to believe in stories that fishermen eat this disgusting thing, which is where the taste is known simply and simply. There is a special cheese in Italy that attracts the “cheese fly.” She lays maggot larvae, and they eat the cheese. It is clear that over many centuries the fly has become a little special and the larvae are different. It’s clear that Europeans are strange guys in their cuisine. They then eat this cheese with maggot, which gives a very distinct cheese taste, and is itself meaty and “rich.” By the way, this cheese is quite expensive. Hence, fishermen know that whatever the maggot eats, it becomes that color and is imbued with the taste of the product it devours.
Coloring maggots red
Unsuccessful attempts to color the maggot red using external dyes are not the best solution, because the skin of the larva is almost impossible to dye. In addition, this ineffective method can lead to the death of the bait. A more reliable and effective way is to add a special dye to the substrate with maggots. It should be noted that colored maggots are no different from their uncolored counterparts in terms of physiological or taste properties. To color maggots red, you can use several methods: 1. Add well-chopped mashed beets to the maggots in a container.
2. Thoroughly grind the food bloodworm, knead the resulting mass and add it to the container with the maggots.
3. Give the maggots worms, which should first be finely chopped. 4.
Add a piece of red brick, crushed to a powder, to the maggot feed. 5. Add squeezed carrot pulp to the maggots.
It is important to avoid over-hydration here. You can expect the effect of dyes after just a few hours of such a “diet”. After 5-6 hours, the maggots will acquire the required shade.
However, after the larva stops feeding, the shade will gradually begin to disappear as the dye begins to naturally leave the insect's body. In some cases, the maggot may only be partially colored, because the dye will be concentrated only in the stomach and insides of the larva.
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How to get red maggots
Attempts to color the maggot using external coloring methods were unsuccessful. The fact is that the outer shell of this larva is practically impossible to paint. As a rule, this led to the death of the bait. A more effective method is to add dye to the larval food. Moreover, after such feeding, the larvae are no different from ordinary ones, not colored in all respects.
To make the maggot turn red, do the following:
- Add grated beets to the food.
- Grind the feed bloodworm and add it to the main food.
- Finely chop the worms and add them to the container with the maggots.
- Grind up a piece of red brick and add it to the feed.
- Chop the carrots and feed the maggot.
After a few hours of such feeding, the white maggot will change its color to red or orange. At the same time, you need to know that if you stop feeding it further, it will again become colorless, since all the colored food will be digested and leave the larva naturally. The maggot has a certain period when it stops feeding and you also need to know about this. You need to be prepared for it to color, but not completely, although this may satisfy many anglers.
How to color a maggot red.
Coloring maggots in different colors
Calliphora larvae, also called maggots, are dyed their desired colors by adding various fat-soluble food colors to their daily food. This is important because water-soluble dyes are unable to be retained properly in the insect's fat body, leading to a significant reduction in dyeing efficiency. Since the skin of maggots is quite thin, and the food eaten remains in the digestive system of the larva for a long time, after a certain period of feeding the maggots with food colored in the desired shade, it will be possible to obtain insects of the required color.
The colored food mass will shine through the skin of the maggot, giving it its own shade. In order to color the larva yellow, you need to use egg yolk. This ingredient is added to the maggot diet until a lasting effect is obtained.
You can also use various dyes. An excellent base for all dyes is fresh cottage cheese. It can be used without dyes, due to which the body of the larva acquires a milky white hue.
If you add dye to the cottage cheese, you can get the desired shade of the larva based on white. You can also successfully do without synthetic dyes by using fruit and vegetable juices. For example, it could be beet or cherry juice.
Another sure way to get dazzling white maggots is to add flour, ground together with pieces of chalk, to the daily diet of the larvae. Another component that can work in a similar way is a classic white napkin, which should be slightly moistened with egg white.
To obtain a green tint, a mixture of carefully chopped parsley, dill and other herbs suitable for consumption is perfect. The main thing is that the end result is a puree similar to food for newborns. If desired, you can add a little lemon balm or mint to the mixture. The most optimal time for staining maggots is the day before fishing.
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Flavoring maggots
Maggots, red or white, have a naturally attractive animal bait scent. But often fishermen try to enhance the aromatic effect using various components:
- sawdust;
- "Corvalol";
- vanilla;
- hemp seeds;
- dill;
- various oils;
- garlic.
All ingredients give the larvae an attractive aroma, eliminating the use of artificial flavors. The basis of all natural aromatic additives is sawdust. Use a simple recipe for their preparation:
- fill the sawdust with water in a ratio of 1:2;
- add ingredients to achieve desired flavor;
Red or white maggots have a naturally attractive animal bait odor
- after boiling, the mixture is simmered over low heat for several minutes;
- the brew is strained;
- sawdust soaked in aromatic additives is squeezed out and dried.
After drying, the sawdust is used as bedding for the larvae. They will quickly become saturated with aroma. When biting is active, the use of artificial flavors is permissible. One of their advantages is the ability to process the larvae themselves. Having different flavors with you, you will choose the most attractive one at the pond. The main disadvantage is that artificial odors are applied immediately before planting. The option causes discomfort under certain fishing conditions.
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We paint the maggot. Color selection and painting methods
Let's talk about such a thing as painting bait in different colors. More precisely and specifically about maggots. If you use ordinary products, it can be painted in the following colors:
- red,
- white,
- yellow,
- green.
It should be noted that the chemical food industry has appeared; if the desire arises, maggots can be painted in almost any color.
Color red
To dye it red, you need to boil the beets. Of course, let it cool, otherwise the maggot will not be painted, but you will simply cook it. Then grate the beets and place the resulting pulp in a container where you place your bait overnight. During this time, the maggot will be saturated with the resulting gruel and will receive a radical red color!
Yellow color
In this case you will need an egg. You will need to boil it. Then separate the yellow from the white, crush the yolk and add maggots to the resulting mass. Then the story will repeat itself, as with the option where beets are used.
White color
There are several coloring methods here. If the fisherman has already boiled the egg, then you can use the white and paint part of the maggot white and part red. Of course, you will need to chop the protein. You can also use regular cottage cheese; the bait is placed in a container with cottage cheese overnight and turns white.
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Green color
The most original coloring for maggots, which is quite rare in water bodies. Interestingly, this may be due to the fact that in Soviet times “green peas” were a scarce product. After all, maggots can easily be painted black by putting them in a mixture with black caviar, but such fishing will be very expensive, it seems that there was a similar situation with peas. As you might have guessed from the above, you need canned green peas, then open the jar, grind the peas to a pulp and add bait there. Overnight the maggot will turn green.
All the colors of the rainbow
As mentioned at the beginning, you can paint it absolutely any color! Even in black, but without using black caviar. The food industry, or rather its chemical component, will help here. If you want to show originality and surprise your friend with some unusual color for your bait, then you can look at food coloring. Although most fishermen are quite satisfied with ordinary products without the use of food coloring.
The only thing that can be recommended is that when a fisherman paints maggots, it is best to add part of the bait to the bait after painting. The fish will come to the feeder and eat the bait, and at the same time take the bait of a color that is already familiar to it.
Coloring maggots yellow
Yellow. To do this you will need a boiled finely chopped egg yolk. The essence is the same - a ground yolk is placed in a container and maggot is added, which is kept there until the desired color is obtained.
The brighter the color of the yolk, the brighter the maggot will be, the paler the maggot, the lighter the shade the maggot will have, and a maggot that has eaten a digested egg with a very light yolk may receive not a yellow, but an incomprehensible grayish tint.
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