Slumlord told me to start this thread..
He is busy squeezing the schitt outta a bunch of tomatoes and peeling skins off em right now...


Asked me I wanted to help.🤔🥴🥴🥴🥴😄😄😄😄

Nope....
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I aint been fishing in 8 or 9 years.

Treble hook.
Night crawler 3 prong impaled.
Couple medium tuffie minmows impaled and spazzing.
1 oz sinker
Out into the channel ledge drop offs..
Always worked for me for Blues....

They're a very common bait to use on a bottom bouncer rig for walleye. Used a couple dozen of 'em this year doing that.

Croakers tomorrow.

I haven't had worms since I started using Invermectin....😁

Are the trout onto croaker now?

Last time was this afternoon. Small jig, slip bobber, and piece of nightcrawler.

Have fished with worms since I was a kid.

We’d use them to catch perch for catfish bait for the trot line.

Few weeks ago fishin' gills.

yes

Did that yesterday, today, probably tomorrow, and likely on Monday as well. Thurs I grabbed another 1/2 flat of crawlers from the bait shop, hoping it gets me through mid-Sept when I'll store the boat and start hunting upland birds.

Week or two ago with ‘taga (catalpa) worms.

Had several crops this year. More worms than leaves.

Planted 38 trees some far this summer. Hopefully couple years I’ll have more worms than i know what to do with.

Fished with them today on Lake Meredith out of my float tube. Productive day too.

We drift them through a local lake for trout.

Just put a small split shot or two a couple feet above the hook. Just enough weight to keep a good angle on the line.

Gulp baits or worms. Catch crappie and trout.

Yep. Buddy and I have gone through over three flats so far this summer.

Recently in some lakes up in the mid north of Minnesota. From the dock (bluegill and perch) and from the boat jigging near bottom - some nice big walleye and a few bass. Spread some of that worm drawing goop on the watered lawn early evening and pickup up needed worms later.

There’s a tub of them in the fridge in the basement now. I’ll go use them soon as it quits raining every day.

About 3 years ago drift casting for trout on the Truckee.

Now rubber worms are another matter. Senko's are the go-to "bait" at the cabin lake. Use them all the time on wacky rig for bass.

I'll be using some Monday, trolling with flashers at Topaz Lake.

Bout 60 years!

I used to love to go fishing.

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.

Digging Bloodworms on low tide coastal flats for bait shops and fisherman is a big thing for some to make cash up in maine also.

I used to rake blueberries in august and in late nov thru mid december sell balsam fir boughs to the airport buyers.

Fir boughs were made into xmas reefs and decorations up and down the east coast cities.

Blueberries...
Well we know what they are used for.


Homie dont eat blueberry anything.....
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sweet

renegade05;
Good evening sir, I hope the day was a good one and you're all well.

Full disclosure here, I really didn't learn how to fish with worms until I took up ice fishing a couple years back.

While night crawlers are okay, I prefer meal worms as they'll stay on the little hooks a wee bit better and it's tougher for the yellow perch to steal them. We get them at a local pet food place as I guess some little lizards eat them? Not sure, but they're the cheapest and best quality meal worms near us.

I picked up a sleeve of 1/16oz jig heads and 1/8oz ones from the Ukraine where it seems ice fishing is a big deal.

If I'm fishing below about 20' I use the heavier ones and keep a second rod rigged up with the small jig heads for whenever a school pulls in just a couple feet below the hole.

Anyways, I guess it was March the last time I was out on the ice and was quite careful where I went then as the ice was pretty punky.

All the best.

Dwayne

Thanks Greg

I'd starve to death if I had to rely on a minnow trap for bait. My Grandmother made a butterfly net for my sister and I to catch grasshoppers. Little creek on their property was about 5' deep and you could catch fish on every cast. Roarin good times!

We ice fished with yellow perch chunks or medium shiners.

I didnt ice fish alot.
Most of my weekends during the winter I worked with my uncles logging pulp wood.
Went from bucker in the yard to cable skidder driver.
My 2 uncles didnt want me falling trees.
They preferred to do that themselves.
Gotta have butts out .
Bad feeled tree can fugg up production
They also wanted stumps slant cut right to prevent hangs with the skidder on bottom of a twitch getting hauled out.
Not good when that happens and a log goes verticle on ya.
BTDT once scared the schit outta me. ROPS cages work.....

Drive the skidder when my uncle Groff,s bum frenchman driver was too drunk to show up for work at times.
Most times the day after he got paid...

200 250 bucks for a weekend not bad for a HS kid in the late 70 s early 80,s.

Partaaaaaay money.
Buying gun money.
Spending money for the week.

Beat working fast food or a grocery store.
Plus I worked with my uncles Groff and Dana.
Built solid life long ties with the Morrison side of the family.
My Grandfather and my uncles made it perfectly clear to my bum dad.
The money I made was mine and he got plenty of free slave labor out of me to begin with...

I haven't fished at all for nearly two years,all our gear in in Ontario.

they're pretty much go-to in my little river. if you can keep it away from the mini smallmouth. they're pigs.

It's been an honest half century since I hooked a worm. I know they produce, guys even catch steelhead on them out here. I just like throwing spoons

but senkos are mo bettah

About a month ago. Caught 8 really nice trout in about an hour and a half. Kept a couple to eat and let the rest go.

When I was a kid we’d catch night crawlers in the spring, fixed up a box in the cellar to keep them, and hang a sign on the locust tree by the road: Worms 2 cents. Sell 25 or 50 a day for a while, we were in high cotton
That’s when I learned flashlights suck for picking worms. The light of a gas lantern wouldn’t spook the crawlers. Much better.

renegade50;
Thanks for the reply and info.

I get that life gets in the way of ice fishing, well any fishing for too many years.

Am I correct you're from just below Quebec in Maine? That'd have a longer winter than we have here, but likely about the same as we had in Saskatchewan when I was a kid.

I can't imagine what I'd have had to do to make $200-$250 USD in the late '70's or '80's either for that matter - all that to say I'd have been right there with you logging or making money for sure.

Mine seemed to go to cars, firearms, too much beer and then trucks - well then farming but I was supposedly on the straighter path by then.

Yes though as mentioned, family and life had kept me from doing much fishing at all since the mid '80's so two winters ago buddy convinced me to come out ice fishing with him and I fished worms for the first time in decades then.

Thanks for the reply and all the best.

Dwayne

Old Town and Milford area.
About 20 miles north of Bangor

Winter 3rd or 4th week of November thru early mid april.
Then 1.5 months of mud season /spring.

Logging was good money as long as production was going good.
Truck load of tree length pulp wood back bring 850 to 1150 a load at the mill.
8 9 10 loads a day between 3 trucks doing runs staggered.
Big money..

Got a state job after high school working state highway dept
Survey crew doing road crowns for various construction and paving companies thru out the state.
Pulling survey string and doing verticle markings on stakes.
Was a basic entry level job for road surveyors.
Was making a little under 8 bucks an hour summer 81 to fall 82.
Grew bored.
No work in winters due to frozen ground.

Joined the Army in early 83

A poorly crowned road with piss poor slope drainage during bad rain storms ticked me off to this day.
Poorly crowned roads with standing water kill people.
No excuse for it IMO.
3 to 4 ° center outwards slope is not hard to do.
Some road contractors blow schitt off.
Or improperly roll hot top from center out which squishes a crown flat to the edge.
Outside to center is the way a road should be rolled...


LOL!!!

#Dontmiss4to7ftofsnoweachyear.

😁😁😁😁

Couple of weeks ago.

renegade50;
Thanks again for the info sir.

No, I'm with you on the "don't miss the snow and cold"

Saskatchewan winters start any time after the middle of October, but usually don't stay until mid November. The last year we farmed, the worst snow storm of the winter was May 08th.

We didn't get piles of snow exactly, but the snow would drift and banks could be higher than one could see over out of the school bus windows most winters.

Yah, I don't miss that much at all either.

Dwayne

Walking to your vehicle and the snow is shoulder high along you walkway mid to late march.
Bout time for this to end.......

Then comes mud season...

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Winter disaster down here in Tn is a inch of snow.

Snowmeggeddon is 3 to 5 inches on the ground for a week


Whole state will shut down.
Literally.


We do get thunder snow down here once in a great while

Which is pretty cool when ya hear it and see the sky and snow get bright from lightning.

Have maybe experienced it 2 or 3 times since 1990 down here.

We do get some bad ice storms at times.

Hell of a way to make ends meet


Waiting in line at Academy, much better gig

I always have some around. Crawlers, dillies, not so much trout worms, then I get into the maggot or larvae type stuff, but prefer Meal Worms in that application. Indispensable in ice fishing for bruiser rainbow trout in what is commonly called a “surf n turf” presentation - natural salmon egg(s) on an 8 or 6 hook with a Dillie threaded up on the shank and over the eye first. The way I rig it, I call it the “cock and ballz”: it produces trophies.

But Mudsharks and salmon like smelt.

What is a "flat" of nightcrawlers?

Came in small tubs where I came from.

Haven't fished in over a year, no water this year, some of the local ponds/reservoirs are dry or nearly so.

I used a lot of combos when I used to fish planted trout. "Cocktails" we called them.

Pictures of your "trophies" you get through the ice?

The thing with warm-water species, trophic, everyone of them is gonna crush the worm. That’s why it’s so good for using with kids and keeping the action hit and attention level there. But, it’s hard to catch a high quality bass, smallmouth or large, when the bait is getting marauded by absolutely anything else in the vicinity as soon as it hits the water. That’s the issue with. Worms. So, buy many, buy largest, and cast them in precarious places where the highest possibility of a BIG predator will find them first. It can be done. Blows a kids mind when they finally catch a 2.5 lb bronze back instead of .75 lb perch or Bluegill.

Years ago, reading Outdoor Life and Sports Afield, those were recommended as THE go to bait for big 'gills and sunnies.

Is that what you're using them for Dave?

I’ll
Send you a nice one right now via phone email. I don’t know how to post here. Give up the dig’s. I’m for real. And My face will be in it. Then, you can post it here if you like. Let’s do it.

Oh hell yeah....

#homiedontmanuallabormuchanymore



Dude have you been on that new stretch of road by park before going over the bridge in a bad rain.

Fugging 2 inches of standing water for 100,s of yards across both lanes.
Fancy raised sidewalks encapsulating it all.
Fugging drains actually elevated above water level in places.

Ridiculous.........

0 crown...
Flat like mirror......

Engineers and state inspectors who submitted and signed off on that schit need a Johnny Knoxville.


Just like the I 40 bridge inspectors.
Pencil whipping schit.........

Never noticed all the bullschitt on that stretch of road till today in the rain storm.

the last time I fished with worms ?

Last summer, late July . Took a lady friend on a halibut charter with ten other people on the boat

3 were Democrats ....

...

#9mmbarteringfool

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0XVagwTp-TS0g3ptmTuCMG63A

Just kinda kidding you Harry.

As renegade says, Pics or it didn't happen, in a friendly way that is.

I don't give out my # often........................Kingston cured me of that!

A sucker you cut up for bait?

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0XVagwTp-TS0g3ptmTuCMG63A

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0YB6PlmQytA5ds3C-ftFvJcNg

You catch bigger bows than that in New England I’d
Like to see them. 4lb. We don’t have steelies here.

There's a keeper.

Nice job there !!!

And thanks, fish pics are always welcome around here.

Sorry bout the first pic, that’s for mudsharking. But we were talking about worms and shcitt. lol. Still like that one though. For those who say you can’t do precision work with a Buck 119. Well I guess they don’t know to sharpen a knife. Or do precision work. That’s my official first shared pic on this place. Not even sure how I pulled it off. I prefer to keep a lower profile anyway.

Maybe more in future. I like to shoot things as well.

And take dumps on the ice, and off of tree stands

Lolol

We have a new comedian!

There's a whole thread dedicated to "pics or it didn't happen"



It's EPIC.

Should you decide to join us there, I'm sure you'd be a good fit.


Pics of "dumps on the ice" not necessary.

A flat is an amount equal to approximately 500 nightcrawlers.

Flat is 500/40Dz, 1/2 flat is 250/20dz. It costs a little extra and his location is kind of a pain, but, we have a local bait/tackle shop that with a day or 2 advanced notice, will pack flats of crawlers into bedding rather than dirt which I much prefer. Bedding dries up and can be vacuumed or will fly out of the boat. Dirt turns to mud and must be hosed/scrubbed out of the boat.

When I buy from the guy in town, I get crawlers that are very large and plump. When I buy on/near any lake "crawlers" are typically more like small earthworms. Get into mid-late Aug and you can tell some bait vendors (usually the ones on/near lakes) are pulling crawlers in half to double inventory and make it to the end of season without re-ordering. Now, I typically will pull crawlers in half myself prior to impaling them, but, that's because I believe I get fewer "nibblers" and more "biters", and it eliminates the need for multiple-hook spinner rigs, which I hate.

yesterday morning - wife caught a small catfish using worms on a walmart zebco while I caught nothing on a lure and my expensive rig

Night crawlers are the best worms.

My grandson and I (well my grandson) caught 17 white perch off their dock yesterday on worms.

It occurs to me that when you ask about "fishing with worms" it might mean...

Fishing with worms as bait, or

Fishing with worms as angling buddies, or

Fishing while infested with worms.

And I sure hope you meant Option One.

Haven't put a worm on a hook since moving to Alaska 50 years ago.

June 30th of this year. Walleye fishing on Lake Erie.

Ron

You guys go through that many crawlers in a season? Or more?

Dang, is that from tossing back short fish, or do you keep 250 fish a year (figuring a 50% catch rate)

I used to get a tub of a dozen, catch a limit of fish, save the remaining half a tub for the next day. Never in my life considered buyin 500 crawlers at one time.

Ain't that the scheidts?

yea I just got it too, I was all proud, carbon fiber rod, 8 ball bearing reel

can't catch a cold with it

Wax worms a week ago for blue gills

This past May. Caught a pile of bream.