bfriendly
Bigfoot friendly
Sitting in a Turkey blind this am I saw he biggest night crawler I’ve ever seen! I have some really good ones that I leave leaves for, but nothing like this dude.
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Found a big one! Night crawler?
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Be a good one next year. 
Why must we get small night crawlers.
Redbow
Senior Member
I would like to catch the Bream that could eat that thing.
Man, that would make a 3 wt flyrod beg for help.
fishfryer
frying fish driveler
Better get you a big rod and reel
Redbow
Senior Member
Ain't that the truth, hee hee.
we used to fiddle that size up down in lower alabama,called them swamp worms,baited many set hooks with them
Redbow
Senior Member
I bet the Catfish loved them big worms. Years ago we used to set lines and when tobacco season came in we would go out into the tobacco fields and get the horn worms for bait. Farmers loved us for doing that and the Catfish loved the horn worms. Of course everyone called them tobacco worms back in my growing up days on the farm.
ryork
Senior Member
Don't think I've seen one close to that size. My grandfather's prize catfish bait was "silk worms" he would gather shucking corn. He had a bunch of catalpa trees, but he thought the silk worms were better. He would put them in Prince Albert tobacco cans and freeze them.
GeorgiaBob
Senior Member
That would be one expensive worm! Think about it. Have to switch to 30lb test line. Then have to buy those high dollar stainless hooks. With that gear, you would have to dump the knockoff Chinese reel and buy a real one.
If I were to pick up that worm, it would lead to hundreds of dollars spent, no turkey today (not that I would have seen one anyway). With my luck, a turtle would chew that whole worm off the hook in the first 4 seconds it was in the water.
Nope! Just let it crawl away. Hey, maybe a turkey will come over to investigate!
If I were to pick up that worm, it would lead to hundreds of dollars spent, no turkey today (not that I would have seen one anyway). With my luck, a turtle would chew that whole worm off the hook in the first 4 seconds it was in the water.
Nope! Just let it crawl away. Hey, maybe a turkey will come over to investigate!
That is a grown one ! I’ve got to ask @bfriendly , were you in your blind at 4:19am ?
bfriendly
Bigfoot friendly
Nope, trying to be still from about 8 til 4 pm. I crashed when I got home, up and Adam at like 2am……my typical day
Randy52
Senior Member
I did this with my Dad when I was child. Most people don’t believe how this works and think I’m crazy when explaining it. Worked really well in the Marshall county area of Alabama. My family’s family has been gathering worms there for years.
bfriendly
Bigfoot friendly
I’ve seen it on tv and it amazes me, but I buy it no doubt! I tried once but it didn’t work. Didn’t get the vibes right, nor were the worms plentiful, but I had to try it after seeing it. It’s an art form no doubt! I thought it was funny when @sparky said he used to “fiddle” them, I knew what he meant!
BoosterC
Senior Member
Richard Gene fiddling for worms
georgiabound
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My late FIL used to fiddle 'em up like this all the time. He would fill a 5 gal. bucket half full in about 30 minutes. That last him about a month. He would cover them with a wet rag to keep. He also would have to unknot them on a regular basis. The first time I went with him to fiddle was absolutely amazing. I had never seen worms come up like that and they were bigger than any worms I had seen before.
