Then place them in a clean bait box and add a good handful of fresh maze per pint of maggots. If you want to take things a little further you can add milk to the maze, just enough so that the maze is damp not wet. Wet maze will make your maggots float. This will soften your maggots. Many Bream anglers do this as Bream will often reject a tough maggot.
Maggots come in a lots of different colors.
White, Red and Bronze the most common used You can flavour your maggots, there are lots to choose from as a general guide stick to sweet flavours in summer and spice flavours in Winter. The Pinkie is the larvae of the greenbottle. They can be used as feed, due their weight they cant be thrown very far. A very good hook bait when bites are shy and hard to come by. Pinkies are a bait widely used by Bream fishermen.