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Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on July 23, 2013 at 9:23pm

I dont know if we have them here, but I can sure put the peaches and bananas to the compost heap.

Comment by Leo Nguyen on July 23, 2013 at 9:15pm

Yep, a combination of over ripened banana, peach, mango, and papaya, and they'll seek the bin like tomahawk missiles if they're around. Their normal scent detection range between the months of April to September, as the weather warms up, allowing for multiple generations of larvae to adults (die within 14 days), before going to dormancy mode as larvae throughout cold seasons. My bin will be in the heat range of 76°F throughout winter, so, they will be fattening up for those picky eating fishes.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on July 23, 2013 at 9:01pm

SO, I should just load up my compost pile with banana, and sweet fruits?

Heck I can do that.

Comment by Leo Nguyen on July 23, 2013 at 8:28pm

Dick, if you can place your worm factory outside, add a lot of banana, sweet leftover fruits, and bury the materials under about 2 inches of damp shredded newspaper, close the lid at an angle, allow the black soldier flies to enter into the bin, imagine the opportunity you can provide to the fish of your pond. Each of these bugger house enough protein to out weigh 3 of the waxworms, and yet, they have the calcium content of the super mealworm. Yet, they are the least maintenance larvae to deal with. Just feed your worm, and add over ripened fruits to attract these beauties. I attached them onto the circle hook, with a bit of the pine resin. Underwater, they squirm as much as a maggot, of course, dead in 20 minutes. Fish with gobble them up before 5 minutes are up.

Comment by dick tabbert on July 23, 2013 at 8:19pm

Thanks Leo for the info.

Comment by Leo Nguyen on July 23, 2013 at 8:12pm

Products of compost bin: black soldier fly larvae. The summer's and fall's candies for the crackers, bass, carp, and trout in southern California's water. They are hard to attract, but once you attract them, they will make your compost pile/bin into a golden pile/bin. They mark your pile/bin, and will return every time they want to lay their eggs, even if they have to fly for days to get to it.

Comment by Jacob Hill on June 6, 2013 at 8:39pm

Yes leo that makes a lot of sense. It's nice to hear the scientific explanation for my unproven observation. Thanks!

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on June 6, 2013 at 5:40pm

Good commentary, Leo, as usual.
Particularly the party about abundance foraging and selectivity.
I tend to go smaller, slower and weightless as summer comes on.

Getting the bait down in a natural manner requires patience....

Comment by Leo Nguyen on June 6, 2013 at 1:51pm

Jacob, one of my fishing colleagues here, veteran in documentation and extremely skillful in worm ranching and using them for fishing, concurred with your deduction. He also noted that when you introduced a juicy morsel of a worm into a ravenous competitive group, lest it be BGs, greenies, rockies, kitties, etc., the offering will be met with violent interaction.

However, in an environment of abundance foraging, weightless, free floating, slow moving bodies (mimicking drowned victim floating in the wakes/currents) will be the preferred choice by the cautious older generations. The smaller ones will not care since they are in competition for every piece of food possible for growth.

In our waters, I notice that using jigs that are 1/32, 1/16, or even at 1/60, I tend to land smaller sizes (9.5" and less). However, switching down to 1/80, 1/100, and weightless, with a micro-sized splitshot roughly 12" above the hook with live worms and crickets, I land larger sized gills quite easily in deeper water. However, I have yet to try the Auto-jig from LedHed to confirm this statement, either having the 1/32oz jig by itself or with a small attractive offering to boost. We definitely will see.

Out family will be hitting the Salton Sea once again later this month, or next month, and I will use the jigs as a third hook to test out this theory as well, on both shy and voracious tilapia species. They are quite selective when it comes to proper offerings and presentation, which was observed over and over again.

Comment by Jacob Hill on June 5, 2013 at 10:35am

Fishing a jig and a worm will also catch a larger average size. Where a small fish may attack a light, benign looking, weightless worm, the jighead gives it a heft and life that small fish generally will shy away from.

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