Casters

Advantages: Many species of freshwater fish can be caught using casters
Disadvantages: Keeping them in the fridge might upset your other half.

...carp. This is what makes casters one of the most popular baits available to any angler. Price and availability Casters can be purchased from any tackle shop, the cost varies from place to place, but as a general rule expect to pay in the region of £5 per pint. This is a fair price since it takes about five pints of maggots to make three pints of casters. Alternatively you can make your own. If you have read my other review on ...
...bucket below, leaving all the casters behind. Any dead maggots should be thrown away. This process should be repeated every eight hours, and the resulting casters must be placed in a container in the fridge. The colours of the casters will vary, however you can change their colour so that they all look similar quite simply. On the evening before you intend to go fishing you should wrap all your casters in a wet towel inside a bucket. The next morning ... Read review

Advantages: Catch you bigger fish
Disadvantages: Fragile and take a lot of looking after if you're going to store them correctly, keeping them fresh

...more technical stuff. Anyway, casters are the chrysalis stage that maggots go through before they reach the point where they turn in to those damn annoying flies. By fishing with these, you’ll actually be doing the world a favour. Casters are well known (by some) as a quality fish catching bait. By that I don’t necessarily mean BIG, but they just tend to be particularly liked by the larger individuals of certain species. I’m mainly ...
...totally crazy, and using the casters really seems to make little difference to the size of the fish I catch. During these months, the water is obviously a little cooler though, so the fish aren’t darting around all over the place, snapping up every free morsel they see. There are obviously many places where they will work, but the limited facilities I have (i.e. no canals or rivers containing fish) in Cornwall mean that I can really talk about ... Read review