Castors -
A Deadly Fishing Bait

Hard chrysalis of a maggot approx 5mm in size.
Ideal for: Roach, bream, chub and barbel.
Where from: Good fishing tackle shops.

Castors

The life cycle of the blue bottle fly starts from the egg which hatches into the maggot which then changes into the chrysalis before finally hatching as the fly. The caster is the chrysalis stage of this development and varies from a light, creamy colour initially to almost black just before it hatches.

As well as changing colour, crucially from a fishing point of view, its buoyancy also changes. As it gets darker it starts to float making it useless for bait so we have to intercept the development and chill the castor at the right stage before it starts to float. Although the process is a relatively straightforward one, it is a time consuming business involving riddling the turning maggots several times a day to catch the castors just when they turn and they are still at the sinking stage.
It is a job you can do for yourself, and many serious castor anglers swear by turning their own, all good tackle shops do the hard work for us and produce gallons of top quality castors every week which we can buy by the pint ready to use.

The use of castors as a deadly fishing bait started in the sixties when Lancashire legends like Benny and Kevin Ashurst took the Trent match fishing circuit apart with the crunchy shells. At the time nobody knew how they produced them in quantity and made them sink and it was even ridiculously suggested at the time that they put a micro shot in each one. Over the years the ‘secret’ came out and now the castors are seen as a readily available bait that is excellent for many species of fish but particularly for quality roach, bream, chub, barbel and tench...(cont'd...)

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