Worms

[ianwuzhere]

Who else collect night crawler big fat dew worms this time of year and keeps them in a big bucket in the cold storage of the house?
Over  $5 a dozen in the stores, always nice to have a few dozen sittin at home waiting for the water to freeze..  Wont be long now   

[FG Steve]

Wow $5/doz!  Yikes!  South of the border in my neck of the woods we're <$2/doz.  I prefer the yard worms but I like to grab 'em at night and sometimes sleep wins out.

No bucket in the basement, but a bait fridge with a Frabill Habitat II in the garage.

Please pardon me butting in from across your southern border.

[Ise De By]

Ian, you gotta teach me how to do this

[chop1]

I don’t no about dew worms here , maybe frost worms ?

[ianwuzhere]

Catch a bunch of night crawlers, and put in ice cream pale in cool dark place full of dirt- and they will last months..

[dekatronic]

Never tried but now I will. I don’t really like having to pay for things that are free. Reminds me of the time when I was buying rocks for my aquarium and then it hit me that I can just find them literally anywhere.

[tigrr]

I have a meal worm farm going.  Which reminds me it is time to change the bedding.  All you add to it is potatoes and bran.  100's of worms.  I feed the dead beetles to the fish, not on a hook though.

[chop1]

I tried a wax worm farm last year with no luck ! How did you get started?

[captain54]

Mill worms are very easy to raise. Any large plastic tub with a lid,old aquarium,metal can 5 gallon size. I raised mine in a 55 gallon aquarium that leaked. Dump a 10 lb bag of wheat bran,lay a few layers of newspapers over the top,add a few mill worms and give them a piece of potatoes or carrot once in a why. They go through a cycle worms,pupa,and then a beetle. They multiple quickly, use can pick the size you want from tiny one to full size. The soft pupa make good Panfish bait the full size ones trout love. I don't really use mill worms anymore,I mostly fish plastic,and if I buy bait is 500 waxies for the year.

[SHaRPS]

Yep i have been picking my own night crawlers for over 25 years now. Spring and fall. When storing them, give them some used coffee grounds.

[tigrr]

I tried a wax worm farm last year with no luck ! How did you get started?

I bought 100 meal worms from a pet store and some bran from bulk foods.  Then once a week I add a sliced potato.  They live in a small clear tote.  They don't fly or crawl out of the plastic tote.

[Seamonkey84]

I use to raise meal worms for my pets, but fornicenfishingni rarely ever use them, just wax worms for jigs and lures, and night crawlers for set lines for trout.