
Three maggots on one Little Nipper Lyon thinks the maggots remind the steelies of shrimp they eat in Lake Michigan. But Jim Dexter, Lake Michigan Basin Coordinator for the Michigan DNR, says "No, I wouldn't go that route. Mysis (shrimp) are probably a small portion of their diet. It's probably more to do with their genetic wiring to eat bugs, and it would seem to me that a waxie looks like a nice big caddis larvae, or larvae of something!" Mark Tonello, a DNR Fisheries Biologist for central Lake Michigan, agrees. "Steelhead are just preprogrammed to eat bugs. Even out in Lake Michigan, at times insects comprise a large portion of their diet. And I would say that it is the waxworm they are keying in on much of the time. I have friends that fish waxworms on a bare hook and they catch fish that way as well.". Field & Stream Online Editors

Fishing With Maggots

Fishing With Maggots

Fishing With Maggots

Fishing With Maggots

Fishing With Maggots

Fishing With Maggots

Fishing With Maggots

Fishing With Maggots