April showers bring
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Fatman
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Actually nice here today 62!!!!!!!! But tomorrow back to the 30's or less and snow!!! It just never ends.
papaperch
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Yep the nights were out here last night too. I prefer the younger nightcrawlers for actual fishing. I nicknamed them " baby nights ".
I prefer the ones about 3-1/2 to 4 inches long. Seems like I get more hook sets with the smaller worms. The bigger ones do get hit but most times what I get back is 1/2 worm.
Oldtimer on Mosquito lake here in Ohio showed me his " secret walleye bait ". Basically a smaller nightcrawler on a # 6 aberdeen hook. He threaded the first two inches or so on the hook and let the rest dangle. Medium sized split shot about 12 inches above hook.
He was taking worms out of same box I was. But he had caught 12 walleyes to my big 0 before I decided. I might want to ask why he was giving me such a drubbing. Since that learning day about 40 years ago. I run a long limber rod using his set up and
the slower the drift the better. Also works great when wallies are set up on shallow hump near deep water. Have to cast to them then but still just as effective.
If they are out tonight gonna sort through them for awhile.
I prefer the ones about 3-1/2 to 4 inches long. Seems like I get more hook sets with the smaller worms. The bigger ones do get hit but most times what I get back is 1/2 worm.
Oldtimer on Mosquito lake here in Ohio showed me his " secret walleye bait ". Basically a smaller nightcrawler on a # 6 aberdeen hook. He threaded the first two inches or so on the hook and let the rest dangle. Medium sized split shot about 12 inches above hook.
He was taking worms out of same box I was. But he had caught 12 walleyes to my big 0 before I decided. I might want to ask why he was giving me such a drubbing. Since that learning day about 40 years ago. I run a long limber rod using his set up and
the slower the drift the better. Also works great when wallies are set up on shallow hump near deep water. Have to cast to them then but still just as effective.
If they are out tonight gonna sort through them for awhile.
Jig Man
Active member
Brings big fat crappie here...
AllenOK
New member
I need to see about getting some.
A few years ago, I took my kids to the bus stop for school, looked down, and saw 'crawler after 'crawler in the grass. Took home a double handful.
Now, I do know of a spot about an hour away, maybe 90 minutes, where I can get some of those "Jumper" nightcrawlers. Suckers move so fast you think they're snakes.
A few years ago, I took my kids to the bus stop for school, looked down, and saw 'crawler after 'crawler in the grass. Took home a double handful.
Now, I do know of a spot about an hour away, maybe 90 minutes, where I can get some of those "Jumper" nightcrawlers. Suckers move so fast you think they're snakes.
LedHed
Sponsor
Too hot here for the big crawlers - we get something like a small Alabama jumper. Here we like to half them - at Havasu you can use a snake, LOL.
JUNGLEJIM1
Well-known member
I had a couple places some years back that were loaded with them. Not a very nice area and always got the attention of the cop's whenever I went. Someone crawling around with a flashlight in the dark had to be up to no good. Most thought I had a screw loose to be out there in the dark and warned me to be careful. Too hard on the knees to be doing that now. Getting down would be easy but getting up is harder now.
AllenOK
New member
You can still get them. Dick's Sporting Goods has them, probably BPS as well.
hhawkins
New member
Brings Bull Shoals lake up 15 feet. Fish in the brush hard to catch...poop!