Nightcrawler picking tip

[harvey lee]

I saw this in a Frabill e-mail as a good tip for picking up crawlers rather than using your fingers.

Hope this helps.

Press lightly on the center of the nightcrawler’s body with a plastic fork. The crawler will loosely wrap itself in the tines, saving you from futile attempts to peel its slippery body off a wet surface, and saving the crawler death by squishing.

[goblueM]

i assume this is off the pavement?

don't see how that would work if they were halfway in their hole in the ground

[harvey lee]

It did not say what area but I would assume it would also work on a wet lawn where they are just lying there.

For pavement where I pick up 90% of mine, its the cats meow.

[JimBuck]

Cool tip Harvey. Looking forward to those first few spring rains.

[riverrat56]

I use a dull pencil when picking them off pavement, slide underneath and pinch them on top and into the bucket. Works slick.

[Jim Uran]

I use a couple of my kids, I sit in the house and they go out and get them with a flashlight and their hands

[harvey lee]

I have also used the pencil method but the fork sounds much easier.

[Crusty old Swede]

My tool of choice for pavement is one of my wife's spatulas. Just remember to wash the spatula off when your done.

[harvey lee]

I use to use my wifes kitchen untensils for other outdoor jobs also. No more, she seems to not care for it.

[Hester]

I only find crawlers on the grass when its wet. When you guys say pavement, do you find them on blacktop or your driveway?

[harvey lee]

I find them in the grass, on the road "blacktop" and on my cement driveway.

[zepman]

I use a couple of my kids, I sit in the house and they go out and get them with a flashlight and their hands

[pikestabber]

My tool of choice for pavement is one of my wife's spatulas. Just remember to wash the spatula off when your done.

+1... This is the quickest method I know of. In the time it takes to fork or pencil it, I would think you could scoop five or more with a spatula...

[SkunkedAgain]

I send my wife out into the yard with a flashlight. She thinks it's great fun. Who am I to argue with the way things work?

[paul pachowicz]

I'll take a few minutes in the morning when I'm mowing greens to pick a few dozen of em out of the sand traps. That coating of sand on em really make it easy. I just carry a couple of styrafoam coffee cups with me. Every now and then I'll pick a few dozen and throw em in the irrigation pond and watch the bass gobble them up. A regular feedin frenzy!!!!! Opportunity of the occupation.