Meal Worm or Wax Worm??

[Eskimo]

Just thought I would ask what you guys prefer to use?? We usually don't have much of a choice here in Colorado, but I myself prefer a Wax worm. A lot of other guys swear by the Mealies... We used these ones up in Montana that they call mousies (had a little tail on the end...) Also up in Wisconsin/Minnesota they have multicolored ones called EuroLarvae or something like that... Tim

[GMCO]

I like the waxies. Seem to do better for me than the meal worms. Also like to use maggots for perch and crappie but they are expensive (if you can find them. Ordered a
thousand of them over the internet last year
and am going to do that again in about a week. Then will keep for 4-5 weeks if you keep the chilled to just a couple of degrees above freezing.

[John19]

I agree, for panfish it's hard to beat the waxies. However for Trout, the mealies are great, especially if you pinch or clip alittle off the bottom. That way, the guts hang out alittle, and there's alot more scent! Trout seem to love it!

[Hardwater Harry]

I like mealworms myself. The worms with the tail are a grubworm. I order all of my live bait for icefishing at wholesalebait.com
They are prompt and reasonably priced. I just got a thousand mealies from them and there wasn't one dead one in the whole lot.

[IceNutt]

It's a sorry deal sitting here reading these posts on a Friday night, second week of Dec instead of getting ready to icefish Sat. I've been complaining enough about these Xmas parties you'd think she would just "make" me go fishing. Does anybody share my pain?
Oh yea...meal worms or wax worms. Back in the olden days of panfishing wax worms always performed the best for me. I do remember mousies working well but seemed like I always exploded them trying to get them on the hook. As far as trout in the high country, I don't think anything works as well as a jig tipped with a small piece of crawler. I do have a buddy who swears by meal worms. My problem with those is that he keeps them thawed between his cheek and gum and often gets them mixed with his sunflower seeds. Yuck!

[lucky7]

Well, I Iike the whole worm debate but I have success with a chartruese jig foremost. Sometimes it is tipped with powerbait...sometimes worm or mealworm. The common ingredient has been a chartruese jig. This is for bows. For Pike or Lakers it appears something shiny or glowing tipped with sucker meat. That is my $.02 worth.

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lucky7

[Hardwater Harry]

I caught a sucker icefishing on Grand Mesa a coupla years ago on a night crawler. Musta been too close to the bottom. I let it lie in the snow for at least 2 hours (I was gonna cut it up for lakers for Blue Mesa) and when i got home to clean the other fish i caught, the thing was still wigglin. I took it out to the wife's small garden pond and placed ( actually just tossed ) it in. Old "Buttlips" is still with us. The grandkids love him and the old goldfish put up with him too

[Guest]

Cool story, I've also have had lake trout that I've caught and put on ice for a few hours and even after they have almost completely frozen nursed them back to life. Have you ever caught any big lakers out of Blue Mesa?

[Guest]

i always try to support our local bait shops around south denver as much as possible, however, they carry meal, wax, and "super worms" at petco just in case you cant make the tackle store before they close. personally, i have better results with waxworms on a teardrop jig (usually red) while my partner prefers mealys on a tube. this season im looking at ways to use shrimp of some kind, any suggestions?