THE SIMPLE MAGGOT FEEDER

4 mins read

September 11, 2020

A simple maggot feeder rig has to be one of the most useful tools to have in your tackle box. The bait is relatively cheap and loved by anything with fins and you don’t need a lot of terminal tackle to do it! Follow this simple guide below and you wont be far away from bags of fish!

Start by threading on your chosen maggot feeder. Tie on a swivel that fits the feeder.

You can use what ever knot you are most comfortable with. This is a blood Knot.

Tighten the knot down with some saliva and trim the tag end. Pull the swivel inside the body of the feeder. This will create a ‘bolt’ rig or a fixed feeder rig.

Here are two more ways to rig the feeder –

The Elasticated X-safe insert is a great way to fish that helps eliminate hook pulls, and has great self hooking properties.

The Feeder Bead is really useful when fixed rigs are banned and you need to quickly change hook links over in match situations.

Next up is your hooklink, This is a size 14 wide gape hook to six inches of 6lb line.

Take a fake maggot and pierce it with your needle like so….. then thread it onto your hooklink.

Slide it all the way up and onto the shank of your hook.
The fake maggot is slightly buoyant, so if you fish it on its own it will float up! When you add the maggots to your hook they will weigh it back down but make the hook very light and react very quickly when a fish picks it up.

To attach your hooklink to the feeder you need to thread the loop through the eye of the swivel then pass the hook through the loop and pull it down tight.

Hook bait wise I would latch what you are putting in your feeder, in this case its big red maggots! I put 4 on this hook to balance out the fake maggot and create an appetizing mouthful!

Fill your feeder with maggots and you are all done!

On the lake bed the maggots will start to crawl out of the feeder and surround your hookbait. The fake maggot being a slightly brighter colour will act like a sight stop for the fish to home in on and the neutral buoyancy of the hook will make it fly up into the fishes mouth very quickly.

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