Breeding Gozzers The soft and succulent, protean packed-pearly white, home-bred Gozzers are a superb summer bait for choosy, shy-biting Carp that often turn their noses up at even the freshest shop bought maggots. Your rod tip twitches and starts to pull round... then eases back, lifeless, just as you are about to lift. You wind in and examine the maggot rig on the hook. They look slightly chewed but are otherwise intact. As you forlornly re-bait, another fat lady rolls in your swim. If only you had bothered to breed some. Gozzers!! Fussy feeders occasionally, Big Carp will get their heads down and feed like pigs at the trough if you introduce Gozzers. Most of the time, Carp are cautious and fussy feeders, especially on hard fished waters where many of them have been caught before. Often, they reject ordinary shop bought maggots, because such maggots are never really fresh and consequently have quite tough skins. This is why it pays to take the best quality hookbait you can, and when it comes to maggots that usually means very soft, very fresh, protean packed almost translucent home bred white maggots called. Gozzers. Breeding Gozzers is really only possible in late summer and autumn which, of course, is when Big Carp are packing it on. The thought of the mess and smell involved puts many anglers off, but by following the correct procedure it's possible to reduce mess and smell to a minimum, if not avoid them altogether. It takes about eight days to breed gozzers, so if you are fishing on a Sunday, start the previous Saturday. 1. Don't try to play safe by starting any earlier, because the whole point is to have the freshest gozzers possible. 2. Start by putting two fresh pieces of chicken, lamb or pig heart, or any other fresh meat, in a clean bucket or similar container lined with newspaper. 3. Stand the bucket in a dark place such as a shed or garage and cover it but leave a small gap, and make sure there is a window open, so the smell of the meat can get out and the flies can get in. 4. By the end of the next day the meat should have been visited by gozzer flies close relatives of bluebottles, but unique in that they only lay their eggs on fresh meat and in the dark. 5. The Gozzer flies lay clusters of eggs on the meat, and you want about enough in total to cover an 1p piece.