When I was a kid we would sell worms and nightcrawlers for use in gardens and flower beds. They sell them online for this purpose now from worm farms. The golf course was a good place for nightcrawlers at night if you did not get caught.
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When I was a kid we would sell worms and nightcrawlers for use in gardens and flower beds. They sell them online for this purpose now from worm farms. The golf course was a good place for nightcrawlers at night if you did not get caught.
When we were growing up a friend would get a coffee can and catch it full of night crawlers. Most of the time he wasn’t even going fishing. He just loved catching night crawlers.
We have 3 large 4’ diameter compost bins cooking year round. Just topped off one of our Vego Garden raised beds today with a batch of compost that was teaming with earth worms. Okra seed getting planted tomorrow before the rains come in. Even when the piles are cooking in the 155-160 range there’s always plenty of worms and castings at the bottom.
Every time it rains I can pick up dozens of nightcrawlers here. Which here lately seems every other day it rains. I could had made use of them when I was a teenager.
Nightcrawlers was everyone first favorite lure.:wink:
Same here. When I was young the best place to get worms was next to the corn crib where the cows would try to get to the ears of corn through the slats. You could fill a can just turning over a few cow pies and those the biggest worms I've ever seen.Quote:
Originally Posted by rboren
Now days your lucky if you can find a kid to get off his phone or computer to leave the house to do all the above.
Pick crawlers after the first decent rain in the spring around here after that they’re gone until next spring,it was April 30 May 1 this year. We picked about 50 dozen, I keep them in my veggie fridge in the basement in coffee cans change the dirt every two weeks. We use them fishing all summer and winter ice fishing….live bait is expensive Crawlers are 5.00 bucks a dozen,Shinners are 8-10 dozen, suckers/creek chubs 6-8 crappie/fatheads 5-6 for a scoop…
We picked crawlers at night after a rain at the country church down the road. We could get buckets full.
I need to dig out my copy of this book! They are asking big bucks for this on E-Bay and other places. https://www.amazon.com/Lunkers-Love-.../dp/B000K28CLW
I had a worm box when I was kid. I would catch worms and crawlers and keep them in the box for when I needed them. I also had a shiner box I kept at the pond across the street. I kept it stocked with shiners.