Colored Wax Worms?

[Guest]

I get a magazine call Ohio Game and Fish. In the February adition it had an article in there about this Crappie fisherman that uses pink or yellow wax worms. Does anybody know where I could get my hands on some of these for my ice fishing adventures?

Thanks

[metrojoe]

I'd check with some of your local bait shops. I'm sure they could order them. Colored eurolarva are available just about everywhere in Minnesota.

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[Guest]

I have not seen colored waxies yet at any of the bait stores around here. The glows ones are colored though, but not too much.

[metrojoe]

Now that I think about it, I seem to recall seeing freeze dried colored waxies. I can't remember where I've seen them. I'll keep an eye out.

[Flipnripem]

They have them at cabelas in Owatonna. The only problem I could see with them is how they adheared the glow material to the grubs. If they stay lit for very long? Can you actually handle them without the glow coming off? Great concept and I hope it works out for the guy who figured that one out. Flip

[hawgTime]

I hadn't really thought about it before but it would be very easy to color your own waxies. Food color is "non-toxic" and stains very readily. You could dilute any color you want with a little water and either spray it on, or dip the waxies in the color. I think I might give it a try--even though natural waxies work fine and I think color doesn't matter--much anyway.

hawgTime

[smartguy]

I bought some of those freeze dried waxies at Wal-Mart (though I hate the store). I think they are only partially real - the majority of the worm is artificial (does that make sense?)
I bought the pink ones for Upper Red Lake. They weren't too productive, but come think of it, neither was anything else that day.

I'd just stick with the real waxies.

[Renneberg]

They get the glowing effect from the special food they give them. So what ever makes them glow is on the inside of the them.

They don't glow anything like the ones you see in the adds or for very long, so your just basiclly pay more for the wax worms with a little color.

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[Flipnripem]

I was told by the bait dealer the waxies were dipped in a GLOW solution of some type. Thats all the info he offered.

[Bobb-o]

couldnt they just put them in that Lindy stuff that makes worms green?

[Bobb-o]

I bought some of these glow waxies the other day, and i was not impressed with them at all. I personally could not notice a difference, except in the price $4.99 for 40. my question is i have one of those Lindy nitro kits. would this work for waxies? I tried it once on worms in the summer and was amazed at how many more fish i caught when they became finiky.