Mate bought me a pint of maggots yesterday ....£4 a pint!!! WTF

What are others in the country paying now?

I know theres a cost but thats mental!!!

In reply to Post #1
My 1st thought was Willy Worms, but they're £3.20, it's cheaper in bulk. 4pints £10.99, but that is a big supplier & P+P on top.
Given WW price I suppose a tackle shops got to make a little more and for the convenience I find it hard to begrudge, though I did almost spit my tea out when I read your post...I'm so out of touch :-(

In reply to Post #1
Wow
I think the last time I bought them they were about 2.50 a pint

I think £3.50-£4 for a pint is standard now, energy prices likely have doubled in the last year so keeping them fresh costs extra.
Buying bulk is best as always for better pricing.

TBH always thought maggots good value, cheaper than a pint in the pub and last longer!

Really what's a pint of lager cost now ?

In reply to Post #1
£3.50 a pint at Suffolk Water Park when I bought a few pints a couple of weeks ago.

In reply to Post #7
£6 a pint is the norm around with me

Maggots are free in my area especially as the the poxy council ****wits can't be arsed to pick up the bins when they are supposed to in this hot spell

In reply to Post #1
I don't know how true it is but my local shop told me there is only two maggot farms left in the country now as a few closed recently and this is the reason for the prices and current shortages we seem to have in this area. No idea if that's true or just an excuse...

In reply to Post #8
Second this, at very best you ain't getting change from a tenner for 2 pints. Mental cause most of it is tax.

In reply to Post #10
There is one near me, can still go down if you can stomach it and get them to fill a little bucket for a tenner. Be about 8 pints at a guess.

In reply to Post #10
Can't be true buddy. I use 2 myself.

£3.50 a pint in the shop I use,will do deals on larger amounts

I think it's all down to stiff competition from the human food chain, you zwill eat ze bugz:P

In reply to Post #5
Agree with that, the only place near me a pint of maggots might the same as pint now is Wetherspoons. When I was growing up always remember beer and maggots being pretty much the same price. £5.50 for a Guinness is pretty common now, never had to pay that for maggots.

The last time I bought a pint of maggots they were bronze,probably the last time I bought a pint aswell

Al of July and August parkfield angling are doing them for £1.80 a pint

Used to be a few maggot vending machines around my way when I was a kid “bag it with maggot” came in a tin and they were terrible lol

In reply to Post #4
Yep, my local shop turned the fridges off all last winter and stopped selling maggots as the amount he sold that time of year wasn't worth running them.

In reply to Post #19
We used to get them in Northants. Little tins of sawdust with 15 maggots and a caster inside
Lifesaver on a Sunday morning when you had no bait!

Put some fishmeal pellets in a bucket, soak them into a mush and hang the bucket up at the end of the garden. The rest is automatic. The maggots will be of good size in a week.

In reply to Post #22
The thing is everyone is missing here is as well as the daft price is its too much for grass roots level and getting kids into the sport which is where we nearly all started.

In reply to Post #23
Bit dramatic. When I was a kid I'd only buy and use half a pint a day trip out, I'm pretty sure kids these days have a couple of quid for maggots.