On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:37:04 -0500, Richard Casady
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On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:32:32 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Apr 15, 11:45*pm, Tim wrote:
On Apr 15, 9:26*pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:





"Vic Smith" wrote in message

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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:42:59 -0700 (PDT), Tim
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On Apr 15, 8:17 am, "mmc" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message

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http://timesonline.typepad.com/envir...s-of-worm.html

Fascinating article on catching earthworms for fishing.

Make a sound like a mole, and the worms head for the surface....

never heard of it, but beats digging though.

If you attemp this, can you send me the video? :-)

LOL!

Eh, I'm not a fisherman, but if I was I think I'd do what Vic does and
wait till it rains then pick 'em up off the sidewalk or something liek
that.

I do recall they sold hold cranked generators to bring worms up.
Stick a couple rods in the ground and crank away.
And "worm farms" too. *The ads said you can make worm raising your
business. *It was fun reading about it but my ma said I couldn't raise
worms in the house.
It was much easier to pick up a couple cartons of worms at the bait
shop. *Had to go there to get minnows anyway.
Worms were cheap. *Anyway I preferred redworms over crawlers.
Never saw them anywhere but the baitshop, but I didn't do much dirt
digging either.
We caught grasshoppers for bait in Missouri.
Catfish cave tickling sounds like more fun than worm grunting.

--Vic

Had a neighbor 35 years ago who started a worm farm. *Lots of worms, no
profit, at least for him. *I could get enough worms for fishing from the
yard, but I just buy a container of red worms or crawlers, depending the
fishing and when done, pour the excess in the garden. *Every once in a while
I find a huge night crawler when digging.

Odd, from growing up in s. IL. in the country, I wouldn't know a night
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Tim, where I lived in western NY, in the summer, we'd go out in the
yard and they'd be up on top. Living next to a trout stream, I'd get
enough night crawlers to put in a bin and keep in the garage for the
whole trout season! They are huge, as long as ten inches.

When it rains, the worms have to come to the surface or drown. They
then wash into streams. The fish are accustomed to eating them, of
course they are good bait.

I used to say the of the ten rules for sucessful fishing, eight are
use a nightcrawler.

Casady

Oh, how positively droll!