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1eyefishing
...just joking, seriously.
Yep, I see some leaf damage indicative of the Catawba worms.
Don't think it is used by much else, I'm not sure.
Don't think it is used by much else, I'm not sure.
Yes, no, no, yes.
Worms make great fish bait and can be frozen for later use.
Hillbilly stalker
Senior Member
Call them cigar trees too. They make a good shade tree but them big old leaves aren’t fun to fool with When they fall.
Not good for anything else but fish bait that I know of . And never tried to grow one from a seed
Save a pod from that tree after they dry. There will be enough "seed" to start you a small grove and they are easy to start.
Every old homestead in the lower South always had a couple of "catawber" trees, a fig tree, a Kieffer pear tree, couple of peach trees, and a muscadine vine. When I got my own place, I planted all the above on it.
Every old homestead in the lower South always had a couple of "catawber" trees, a fig tree, a Kieffer pear tree, couple of peach trees, and a muscadine vine. When I got my own place, I planted all the above on it.
BriarPatch99
Senior Member
They use a lot of the trees for fence post out west ....ever noticed a straight fence post in a western .... crooked but rot resistance...
Lilly001
Senior Member
I hear that the worms are great fish bait.
A Ga neighbor of mine has a half dozen trees in his yard just for the bait.
His wife says he pays more attention to those trees than her.
A Ga neighbor of mine has a half dozen trees in his yard just for the bait.
His wife says he pays more attention to those trees than her.
I believe that is Hedge and not Catawba.
BriarPatch99
Senior Member
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EAGLE EYE 444
King Casanova
I have known this type tree shown in your photo above as a "CATALPA TREE" ever since I was only 4-5 years old and I still have several on the property up in the country and they are identical to your above photo. In fact, I had my hands on one of them just this past Saturday afternoon.
As for me, I will continue to call them CATALPA TREES AND CATALPA WORMS AS SUCH.
By the way, Moby Dick just sent me an email and stated that those trees in Georgia were also named "CATALPA TREES" EVEN REALLY WAY BACK WHEN HE WAS A MINNOW TOO !!!!!
As for me, I will continue to call them CATALPA TREES AND CATALPA WORMS AS SUCH.
By the way, Moby Dick just sent me an email and stated that those trees in Georgia were also named "CATALPA TREES" EVEN REALLY WAY BACK WHEN HE WAS A MINNOW TOO !!!!!
Not saying it can’t or isn’t used and I have no experience with what they use in Oklahoma but the the vast majority of the ones you see in Missouri,Iowa,Nebraska, and Kansas are hedge.
I've split and tried them for posts and rails. They are ok, but sure aren't nearly as rot resistant as black locust or cedar.
lagrangedave
Gone But Not Forgotten
How’d that black locust split?
lagrangedave
Gone But Not Forgotten
I have about 100 trees 3’ tall started. That seed pod doesn’t look ours. Ours are flatter and wider.
Pretty good if it isn't a crooked, knotty piece. I've split literally thousands of locust stakes and rails over the years.
BriarPatch99
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We ....my Daughter and her family had been to a wilderness area South of Mustang, Ok ... It was there I saw my first catalpa tree higher than about 30' (I had several that tall until I cut them). These were tall trees between 80' & 100' tall .....I ask the ranger about them and he said they were catapla....they were growing on a small river that ran into the Canadian river.
We later stopped with a farmer about 5 miles away ...I always seek local folks when visiting an area .... I noticed that his fence post had the same bark as our local catapla trees ... he confirmed they were cut off his property near a branch .... Probably a 300 acres pasture fences with barb wire and catalpa post and they were crooked with maybe one out every 50 that were straight ...
Some those tall trees were 30" diameter . .... I am pretty sure they were not of the variety of catalpa as we have down here in S. GA.....
Oklahoma is pretty far West for a GA farm boy.....
We later stopped with a farmer about 5 miles away ...I always seek local folks when visiting an area .... I noticed that his fence post had the same bark as our local catapla trees ... he confirmed they were cut off his property near a branch .... Probably a 300 acres pasture fences with barb wire and catalpa post and they were crooked with maybe one out every 50 that were straight ...
Some those tall trees were 30" diameter . .... I am pretty sure they were not of the variety of catalpa as we have down here in S. GA.....
Oklahoma is pretty far West for a GA farm boy.....
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