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What colour maggott?

usually ask for red, but that's my match fishing back ground.
Don't care really. Don't even matter whether they wriggle.
 
Red for perch and grayling, bronze for anything else. A river match angling Uncle told me that in about 1975 and I've never had a reason to doubt him.
 
Purple for me. Just cos i felt the need to be daft lol. On a serious note Red and white ;)
 
Gavin Hoe-Richardson said:
A fair few ladies in Liverpool too, though to be fair they're more orange than bronze!
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Talking of orange...what are the bronze maggots you get now like Gavin? I recall when the original bronze dye (chrisoidine) was banned because it was thought to be carcinogenic....although that was never proven to be a fact. The replacement die (Kent colour) we got at the time was a gawd awful orange colour, never got on with that.

Incidentally, Birminham match angler Clive Smith died of cancer at that time, and the bronze dye was universally blamed. The fact that he also smoked didn't seem to come into the equation....

Cheers, Dave.
 
The colour seems to vary depending on the tackle shop. The ones in York are on the bright side of bronze and it comes off on your fingers when wet, the ones I get from Chester are duller but it doesn't come off so much. Maybe I ought to ask what they use. The York ones are usually done to order while I wait though that could be a wheeze to get me to buy some of those nice-looking stick floats that are on the counter and have been 'reduced'!
 
David Gauntlett said:
Talking of orange...what are the bronze maggots you get now like Gavin? I recall when the original bronze dye (chrisoidine) was banned because it was thought to be carcinogenic....although that was never proven to be a fact. The replacement die (Kent colour) we got at the time was a gawd awful orange colour, never got on with that.

Incidentally, Birminham match angler Clive Smith died of cancer at that time, and the bronze dye was universally blamed. The fact that he also smoked didn't seem to come into the equation....

Cheers, Dave.
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Clive Smith died of bladder cancer which is not linked to smoking. As for chrysodine, I was told by a chemist many years ago its chemical structure is typical of many carcinogenic chemicals.
 
David Gribble said:
Clive Smith died of bladder cancer which is not linked to smoking. As for chrysodine, I was told by a chemist many years ago its chemical structure is typical of many carcinogenic chemicals.
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Hi David, according to information I have gathered over the years, smoking has so many ways of damaging the body that virtually ANY cancer can be linked to it...it is just a matter of degree. As for your chemist telling you that chrysoidine has a chemical structure typical of many carcinogenics, he is of course right. Similarly, he would be right if he told you that the same could be said about some of the chemicals produced by burning tobacco.

Cheers, Dave.
 
David Gauntlett said:
Hi David, according to information I have gathered over the years, smoking has so many ways of damaging the body that virtually ANY cancer can be linked to it...it is just a matter of degree. As for your chemist telling you that chrysoidine has a chemical structure typical of many carcinogenics, he is of course right. Similarly, he would be right if he told you that the same could be said about some of the chemicals produced by burning tobacco.

Cheers, Dave.
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Bladder cancer is pretty rare compared to other cancers and I seem to recall that when a couple of anglers succumbed and doctors found out they spent years with orange fingers the link was made. As with many links proving causation is extremely difficult. I know I would steer well clear of chrysodine.
 
Bronze,whites:)
 
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