Same skeleton as a cage feeder, different payload. A blockend with holes, capped, filled with maggots. Hooklength 30–60cm for most stillwaters, longer or stronger on a barbel crease.
Rig
Maggot feeder rig
A blockend on a link, a medium hooklength, maggots trickling around a maggot hookbait.
Components
20–40g blockend, clip or link, bead, swivel, 30–60cm hooklength, size 14–18, maggots.
How to tie it
As a running feeder. Fill, cap, cast to the clip. Tape holes if they empty too fast.
Common mistakes
Using a cage and wondering why the maggots dump in mid-air. Warm maggots. Tiny hooklength on a river barbel.
Techniques
Technique
Maggot feeder
A blockend feeder packed with maggots that trickle out on the bottom. Winter F1s, river roach, perch and barbel all understand it.
Technique
Barbel fishing
A crease, a bait on the gravel, and a fish that pulls harder than its size. Rivers after 16 June. A mat is part of the tackle, not an extra.
Technique
Pellet feeder
A blockend packed with pellet
Technique
River feeder
A cage or blockend holding bottom in flow, after 16 June. The honest way to fish a crease for barbel, chub, bream and roach when a stick float will not hold.
Technique
Canal feeder
A small cage or blockend on a canal, used sparingly for bream, tench and the odd carp. Not a 40g rocket into the far rushes.