dye maggots

Phil L wrote:
Olle Lundin wrote:
:: Phil L wrote:
::: Olle Lundin wrote:
::::: what do you use when you dye maggots (red)?
:::
::: In Britain we buy them already coloured, most tackle shops have an
::: assortment of colours, red, yellow, orange, green, bronze
::: etc...it's just food colourings added to the rotten meat that
::: they are grown on and the maggots turn that colour - I suppose
::: you could colour them yourself in much the same way, just get
::: some food colourings (cake making shops have them and some
::: supermarkets) and add a few drops to some damp bread and put it
::: in the maggot box, another method is to use blackcurrant cordial.
::: For yellow maggots use ordinary tumeric which is used in making
::: curries, both these will also add a bit of flavour too.
:::
:: I can buy coloured maggots from the tackla shop too but it costs to
:: much. The methods you mention won't it just dye the maggots on the
:: outside?


Our maggots are about 3 Euros per half litre and this is in any colour, I've
never tried to colour them myself because they are so cheap, personally I
prefer natural (just plain white) maggots as this is a more natural bait, IE
something that wild fish would eat occasionally when carrion floats to the
surface and becomes home to millions of fly larvae.

As Derek said, you will have to get rotten meat and add food colouring to do
it properly, but the methods I mentioned would give you a tinge of colour.



thats pretty cheap, I pay almost 11 euros per half litre when I buy them
directly from the guy who breeds them, if I buy them from the tackle
shop I pay more....


/Olle