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[Damien]

Follow the robins, starlings and flickers.

[Noahs Arc]

This rain may be the ticket to picking up some nightcrawlers, although there might not have been enough...

Growing up in Ontario, I would get my fishing worms at night, at the local golf course, after a summer's rain (little bit of trivia, that course was Mike Weir's home course). The nightcrawlers would be thick on top of the short grass and it was easy pickin's. There never seemed to be many on my lawn at home,  but the golf course was the bomb. I even got so serious about it that I would strap 2 coffee tins to my legs and wear a head lamp so my hands were free and I could just walk and pick. The trifecta was to get a mating pair of worms in each hand at the same time and land all 4 of them.

So, it may be worth it to head out late tonight, well after dark, to some grassy areas with a flashlight and see what has popped up.

Probably helped that the grass was being irrigated daily aswell.

[KarateKick]

I wonder if coarse fish go for the gourmet stuff:
http://www.petsmart.ca/reptile/food/flukers-gourmet-style-mealworms-4589.html

[mesmer25]

I would guess they would eat it, fish eats bugs.
Last year i caught house flies and attached to a hook, i was definitely getting bites with the fly.

Regards
Anthony

[KarateKick]

I would guess they would eat it, fish eats bugs.
Last year i caught house flies and attached to a hook, i was definitely getting bites with the fly.

Regards
Anthony

Genuine fly fishing 

[mesmer25]

  never know what will work if you do not try

[KarateKick]

Does anyone here have a home worm farm?  If so, do you keep it indoors?

I've heard of one guy who grows all his own worms, but I don't have any more indoor space, and I suspect worms in a bucket outside won't survive either the summer heat or winter freeze.

[TNAngler]

Just a bucket wouldn't be protected enough.

When I was young we would go pick nightcrawlers from a couple different places for fishing the next day.  We would go probably once every week.  Any worms we didn't use we would dump out that evening on our lawn or in the garden.  The next year, we hunted on our lawn without any problem.  If we wanted worms, we would set the sprinkler out right about dusk and let it run for a while, maybe an hour and turn it off and go out hunting.  I remember grabbing some that I would see at the corner of the light and immediately dropping them because they were so big I thought it was a snake, not a worm.  We literally got some that compressed were thicker than my thumb and approaching a foot long.  Stretched they would be over two feet and when we put them on worm hooks for trout we would have to pinch off some of the bigger ones into 4 pieces to even get them all onto a hook.

[wildmanyeah]

Does anyone here have a home worm farm?  If so, do you keep it indoors?

I've heard of one guy who grows all his own worms, but I don't have any more indoor space, and I suspect worms in a bucket outside won't survive either the summer heat or winter freeze.

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My dad has one but they are to small of worms to use for fishing

[mesmer25]

Does anyone here have a home worm farm?  If so, do you keep it indoors?

I've heard of one guy who grows all his own worms, but I don't have any more indoor space, and I suspect worms in a bucket outside won't survive either the summer heat or winter freeze.

Here is some info for under the sink worm composting

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/composting/vermicomposting/vermiculture-under-sinks.htm

[mesmer25]

just an update, bought some freeze dried mealworms, for testing. will let you know if they work at all.

[KarateKick]

This summer we used a lot of nightcrawlers from Berrys. We were careful about keeping them cool so they wouldn't die and rot. However, the ones that we accidentally sun-dried or freeze-dried worked very well because they stayed on the hook better than the live ones. I wonder if I should try curing some.

[fishingwithjohn]

Let em ingest some food dye and they will turn colour