Neil Rogers
Active Member
But which colour do you find the best for the Barbel.
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But which colour do you find the best for the Barbel.
I always use whites with a handful of reds mixed in as a change bait.
In my match fishing days I used bronze with Reds but I got fed up with having bronze hands, I recently tried bronze again and ended up with bronze hands, only the newer dyes are a bit easier to wash off.
To be fair I find whites with a few reds works as well as anything.
Out of interest in Holland where I fish quite a lot, red maggots can be bought but are very illegal, it is the police that come along and check your gear and they get very upset if you are caught with reds.
Not sure what happens these days as I only tend to fish for Pike and Zander when I am there and a few whites gets me all the live bait (also very illegal in Holland) that i ever need, but last time I was captured with reds they let me off as I was English, I think the Dutch get a hefty fine if caught with them.
Red maggot dye is very poisonous and stays in the food chain, they eat a lot of Zander in Holland so that is why there is a ban.
It would not surprise me if red maggots were banned over here soon as the EU seem to make all our laws nowadays, it also worries me that we feed a poison to our fish which is another reason that I don’t use too many reds.
Tight lines.
I thought it was banned Keith....shows what I know
Cheers, Dave.