Nightcrawler Time.

[shirts]

A perfect day for free bait.Just keep them cool. Use worm bedding, put in fridge or cool basement and your set. Cats and carp are biting on the Miss. My kids love catching worms as much as the fish. Have a great day

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[Nick Kuhn]

I use them for fish food. You would think a 5 inch bass couldn't eat a whole night-crawler but it sure can (how remains a mystery). But the fish is happiest when it's so full it can barely swim.

[Chode2235]

I used then for fish food for a while too, but jeeze, do they make your tank dirty. Could be the fact that they are lined with dirt...

I love combing the yard with my flashlight picking up worms. I used to go down the the High school track and pick them up by the ice cream bucket as a kid. I would sell them for 75 cents a dozen. I couldn't keep enough of them around. Good money for a 10 yr old.

[DonBo]

 Originally Posted By: Chode2235

I would sell them for 75 cents a dozen. I couldn't keep enough of them around. Good money for a 10 yr old.

WOW! I only got a penny each when I was a kid. I must be a lot older than you.

[shizzy]

Am I the only one who can smell worms right after it rains?

[Vexipro]

i dont think we got enough rain in western mn to really get em out yet...

[Sandmannd]

 Originally Posted By: shizzy

Am I the only one who can smell worms right after it rains?

I smell them during and after rain. My favorite part of spring and summer is the smell of rain and that includes the wormies.

[hanso612]

When I was a kid, I used to pick crawlers and turn them in to the baitstore for two cents a piece. The owner would let me by lures at cost. All through jr. high my neighbor and I would pick between 4 and 5 hundred a night. I think our best night was 1200 after a three day rain. I remember them coming out of the crop fields on to the road some as big around as your thumb.

My mother refused to let us keep them in the fridge after some got loose and crawled into an open bag of shredded cheese. "the horror" she must have felt when she attempted to make a salad.

I lined worm beds in my basement with a material to keep them insulated and to keep them from squezzing out a seam in the bottom of a large bin, but unbeknownst to me, the material allowed the crawlers to climb the wall and squeze out under the lid. We had a hundred crawlers loose in my basement, which didn't make my mother very happy either.

[Tim Boomgarden]

I can't wait to get out tonight and fill the bucket with crawlers!!!

[DUCKJ]

What do you guy feed them to keep themalve? I got a half pf flat left over from Sturgeon fishing and was hoping to keep them alive till Walleye opener.

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[benbosh]

i just put them in shredded newspaper and they last forever.. i had about 4 or 5 left over in a cool whip container from last fall and they survived the winter on just the newspaper until a couple weeks ago when i had to throw them

[youngie22]

bucket filled, that didn't take long!!!

[TurnUpTheFishing]

just got a few dozen myself could have got many more...

pick up a few dozen crawlers and its like getting a gallon of gas.

[DeanoB]

earlier tonight in my side yard got a few dozen useing a green LED they didn't even move! just came in from the backyard, had the outside light on, and picked 3 doz within 15 feet of my back door, in about 10 minutes or so...they are all over in SE MN.

[Fisherman For a Lifetime]

Ya can smell 'em!!

[DonBo]

I have always heard you can feed them used coffee grounds. They also sell commercial feed at any big sporting goods store.

[Vexipro]

DANG! its blizzarding here! not very condusive to crawler hunting!

[fisherking01]

Tough picking here too!

[tanman]

that is terrible i would have moved by now

[travwinkleman]

picked up a couple dozen last night myself! cant wait to dunk em'

[fishguyd]

Anybody want to sell some?

[fishinJohn]

I went to work the other day and there were hundreds of huge fat ones in the parking lot. If my pole were in the truck I would have had to call in sick.