pattern

[Piper]

Just woundering if anyone has a pattern that looks like a maggot,or millworm in Pa. alot of my friends us live maggots and millworms to fish for trout but I would rather use flies

[herefishy]

Wouldn't a big cream colored caddis larva work? Worms are worms, aren't they?

[Panman]

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/feat...es/part296.php

[kengore]

Nice pattern Panman, but I wonder if the recipe matches the picture.

I'm not seeing the grizzly hackle, yellow belly stripe, and white ox hair mentioned in the text...looks more like a yarn or dubbed body with a hackle collar made of wooven horse hair.

[Rick Z]

Look at the rat tail grub in "Ricks Favorite Panfish Flies" on this board.

Rick

[ducksterman]

This looks very maggoty to me....

http://globalflyfisher.com/patterns/...-caddis-larva/

[Normand]

wouldnt a few layers of cream colored yarn work? a maggot is not rocket science

[joe cool]

I could be wrong on this, but I think a big part of the reason that waxworms/maggots work well as bait is the scent that gets released when they get impaled on the hook.

I tested this idea on bluegill one day, if you tossed in a few waxworms unharmed they'd take a while to get eaten, but if you poked one with a hook and tossed it in it didn't take more than a few seconds.

While I'm 100% confident a maggot fly would catch fish, I think you might be better off imitating something naturally found in the streams since chances are your fly isn't going to be sitting in front of the fish for very long to give it time to decide to eat. Chances are if it does get eaten its more likely it was mistaken for a caddis larvae than a maggot so any cream colored caddis pattern should work just fine for what your looking for.

Not trying to deter you from making it work and finding a suitable patter, just thought it was something worth considering.

[white43]

I've used strips off a cream colored latex glove to make small maggot flies for ice fishing. a few wraps of weighted wire helps it sink faster. I've also used beadheads before palmering on the latex. JGW

[sandfly]

I use and sell the honey bug material (origanal) for maggots.