Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire When was the last time you fished with worms

3 weeks ago. 6 gills, 2 bluecat, one 6 lb yellow cat.

I can't remember the last time I didn't use worms.

damn it, stole my line!

dude, save some 'hoppers! they'll be awesome.

Month ago, took grand daughter fishing for pan fish. She caught many.

Bare line , hook , small worm, shoved lenght wise up entire hook and onto line an inch or 2.
" natural presentation "..
No leader, sinker , swivel.
Fugga,s wont even consider biting schitt with gear on it.

Drift down in currents into pools, holes, eddy,s behind rocks, undercut banks.
Basically the hydrography and geology of the stream or brook where fish hang out.
Dont skyline self on bank stay back from water edge 7 or 8 feet.
Walk slow .
Fish after heavy rain storms or during light rain.
And on overcast days

Brook trout 101 growing up in Maine.

Oh...
Head net, light gloves, duct tape up wrist and pants.
Smoking a doobie or ciggerette thru head net.

Bens 100% deeted the fugg up still.

Black flies, sqeeters, horse flies, deer flies, moose flies still swarming around ya making life a living hell after the 2nd week of may.

Down here in Tn fishing is easy.

Throw out something bloody and beat up.

You also never know what your gonna catch it seems.

Biggest what if river fishing in Maine was big azz snapping turtles or Alantic Eels.

Hate both of them bastards.

Got bit by a Eel in Pushaw Lake when I was 12.
Had ta go to EMMC and get 2 pints of blood and the big ole v chunk taken out of the pad of my foot was cauterized.
Cock sucka,s got some type of anti coagulant in their bite.

Every Eel river fishing I ever caught after that got the hachet treatment.
Bought one with a belt sheath to carry just for them slimey bow tie finned sunsabytches.....😡😡😡😇😇😇😄😄😄😄😄

We caught about twenty tripletail today (five keepers) and a dozen nice dolphin. That's a pretty good day for a flats boat.

Wife and I will use them when the local shops are all out of minnows.
Got to give them fish something to chew on.

30 years.

What do I win?

Used to buy these when I’d take my young nieces fishing for Bluegills at the Ranch. They didn’t want to use real worms. 😬

https://www.berkley-fishing.com/products/gulp-pinched-crawler-1253975?variant=34171106787467

Little native brookies in Georgia were so voracious you could catch them on any damn thing. #22 dry fly or 3” deep diving shad rap drug through 12’s of water. They would hit literally anything you threw at them.

Seeing a 9” brook trout attack a 3” plug was a hoot.

All the time.

When I go fishing, worms are my bait. Haven't used crickets since I was a kid.

I used one yesterday caught a rainbow with each half.

Dad was too cheap to buy us bait when we were kids.
We had to catch our own. Either used a minnow trap or had to catch grasshoppers. 🤠

I get my nightcrawlers at Walmart

Great pics!

Beach worms are great for whiting here, and good fun to catch too. As the weather warms up I'll be down to the beach nearby to get some, and some nippers (little crayfish, which live in the sandflats) and catch a feed of whiting.

I also use earthworms and red wrigglers for trout, though more often than not I use a fly.

Catching night crawlers on outer edge of flashlight beam as a kid and teenager.
Couldnt beam em directly or else they would bail back down their hole.
Water the fugg outta the lawn bout an hour before dark or if it rained during the day.

Snag one and basically have ta jerk it off . 😄😄😄😄😄
to get it to release it slimey sandpaper like tail and toss it into the coffee can.

Wonder how many snowflakes and Liberal Socialist Democrat sockpuppet on here know how to jerk off and catch nightcrawlers.

I bet most cant do what a 6 or 7 yr old kid knew about outdoor schit back then.

Most just sitting in mommy and daddies basement living their life vicariously on the internet.

Fugging losers.........

Crush up black walnut hulls in a 5 gal bucket, add about 20 walnuts and 2 gallons of water after you mushed it all up

Pour it out on the ground in a leafy, compacted damp ditch. The worms come hauling ass out, grab em up and toss em in a coffee can. Give a little water to swim around in for a couple mins to get that natural toxin off of em


Helps to have walnut trees

Sucks for you if you live in some place with just sand,dust and ball sweat like Sierra Vista.