Red wigglers

[james]

Anyone around here ever try these type of worms for ice fishing ?

I bought a couple thousand of these on line for a composting project last spring, and now they have made many thousands of little worms, and i am running out of room in my bins
so now i am thinking its gonna be a worm winter, if anyone else has had luck with these in the past.
Maybe chum with them ?

james

[thefinlessbrown2]

 nope cant say i have james although i've thrown the pink wiggler down a few holes in my day  sorry i couldn't resist lol

[lake snake]

nope cant say i have james although i've thrown the pink wiggler down a few holes in my day  sorry i couldn't resist lol

 
 This is a G rated site.

[wautuhguy]

My father in law raises them for his tropical fish (PRO breeder) and for composting.Me and the kids are never short on kibby bait.Cant imagine why they wouldn't work as chum or bait through the ice.

[james]

nope cant say i have james although i've thrown the pink wiggler down a few holes in my day  sorry i couldn't resist lol

LOL 

My father in law raises them for his tropical fish (PRO breeder) and for composting.Me and the kids are never short on kibby bait.Cant imagine why they wouldn't work as chum or bait through the ice.

Thanks Mike

They look like a rainbow might enjoy them.

[rockhound57]

they look about the right size for crappie, too

[james]

they look about the right size for crappie, too

Thanks for the tip rockhound,i may try that this weekend.

james

[1MOFISH]

Anyone around here ever try these type of worms for ice fishing ?

I bought a couple thousand of these on line for a composting project last spring, and now they have made many thousands of little worms, and i am running out of room in my bins
so now i am thinking its gonna be a worm winter, if anyone else has had luck with these in the past.
Maybe chum with them ?

james

you need to put them in your garden,i mean they are great perch bait they will help airate your soil i mean the gills love them, they will brood stock for the compost bins next year,i mean go head and use them next year is a long way away hot pile or cold   lol    mo

[james]

you need to put them in your garden,i mean they are great perch bait they will help airate your soil i mean the gills love them, they will brood stock for the compost bins next year,i mean go head and use them next year is a long way away hot pile or cold   lol    mo

They wont survive the winter up here in the ground. because they pretty much live on the surface.
according to the website that i bought them from, they can only take a couple of frosts before they croak.

right now i have them in rubbermaid containers inside.
but when the Mrs gets wind of this, they might end up in the garden after all lol.

james

[1MOFISH]

i started two bins this year and put a couple tons of compost and manure in a raised bed 10'X20' little worms when i started now thousands, your a lot farther north im still harvesting tomatoes peppers eggplants beans was close to 80 yesterday im torn betwwen fresh veggies and icefishin   oh well come on ice    lol   mo

[nhtroutfreak]

I have caught rainbows and brook trout on those little guys through the ice on days when they just wouldn't hit anything else.

[1MOFISH]

Got a picture of one of my compost piles.  Yard waste ($0), kitchen/food waste ($0), and a couple hundred dead minnows (priceless$).

P.S.  Used wood palletts to make bin ($0)


MO

[james]

Got a picture of one of my compost piles.  Yard waste ($0), kitchen/food waste ($0), and a couple hundred dead minnows (priceless$).

P.S.  Used wood palletts to make bin ($0)

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MO

Sweet setup you have there if that were mine i would have a giant pumpkin growing out of that bin thats why i started this project, i am hoping for a thousand pounder next year.

The castings the worms make are like gold in the garden.

james