Who still catches night crawlers?

[Mossy]

I know they are cheap in the stores but I still refuse to pay for them.  I still enjoy trying to sneak up on them at night, flashlight in one hand and the old sour cream container in the other.  20 minutes later, you saved $3 and great memories for a little kid. 

[carpsniperg2]

Heck yes! I loved it when I was a kid. Don't fish with them much but after a heavy rain or flood from the garden hose You can catch plenty!!! I learned not to shine the mag light right on them really fast

[Annette]

Catching nightcrawlers can be fun! When the kids were little we lived on the main drag to Silver Lake. My neighbor had kids the same age as mine so her and I would catch night crawlers every couple nights after her husband would water the lawn for an hour. We would sell the worms to fishermen all spring and summer then take the kids on a trip to the beach  with the money we made! Our longest worm was 14 inches!
It  will be something I'll do for fun with the grandkids this summer!

[Wazukie]

two probes, some wire and a car battery work well!

[Mossy]

Don't use them much myself either, especially with the new trout law.  But when you are on a mission for perch, it's worth it.  Light up the garden, look for shiney and use the outer light for the kill...Of course, sometimes you end up with really wet pine needles or slugs that way

[bradslam]

Don't do it as much as I used to, but it is damn near as much fun as fishing.  I'm sure the neighbors wonder what the heck I'm doing wandering around the lawn in the middle of the night with a lantern. 

[Mossy]

Oh...and I always let the maters go...that's just wrong!

[Annette]

We used to ware our hip waders...the night can slip away and before you know it it's 4 AM!!!

[Annette]

Oh...and I always let the maters go...that's just wrong!

OH...That would be half the catch!...Just put them in the worm box ..they won't even know you moved them!
We used to put the old coffie grounds in the dirt and we had the livelest worms.

[PolarBear]

My kids have a couple of those big worm farms and have been selling them to their friends Dad's.  After a snow melt or big rain they go out in the pastures and get them by the fist full.  Last year I put 5 yards of steer manure on my garden and with every shovel full my youngest girl was there to pick out the biggest ones.  She wound up with one of those big coffee cans full to the top with them.  They sold out on their worms pretty early this year but I'm sure they will get another batch started.

[rasbo]

I do,I have a bar refer Im going to bury in the ground to raise them in also.When I lived in Rupert Idaho you irrigated your yard by opening a valve and flooding the lawn with  about 6inches of water..Then that night them boogers were everywhere...I have a small worm box I take fishing with worm bedding a little grass clippings.I put a tsp of cornmeal in every week or so,just keep the bedding moist and cool...

[kbyers]

I know they are cheap in the stores but I still refuse to pay for them.  I still enjoy trying to sneak up on them at night, flashlight in one hand and the old sour cream container in the other.  20 minutes later, you saved $3 and great memories for a little kid. 

Aside from saving money, the worms are better quality too

[ICEMAN]

Good memories.
 
I would sell worms from our dock on Long Lake (Thurston County) for many fishing seasons when I was about 12-15yrs old......
 
We also used to go at night and gather crawlers off the manicured lawns at the Capitol Grounds....  That finally got ended by a couple of troopers... 
 

[hunterlady]

I have so many of the little critters that you can just about twist your ankle walking across the yard.  Mowing the lawn is like driving down a wash board road.  I also have the mole hills and gopher mounds that come along with the territory.  Can’t beat night crawlers for walleye bait and catching them youself just adds to the fun.  I keep them in an extra refrigerator in an insulated cooler filled with commercial worm bedding.  I always put a layer of damp newspaper on top of them and feed them grass clipping and worm food.  They last for months.

[BOWHUNTER45]

Man when I was a kid in P.A we would stay out all night catching crawlers.. fill 5 gal. buckets full.. sneak in the neighbors yards with flashlights like we owned the place ... remember being very quite so no one would hear us ..   lot of memories from then ... Plus the boys catch them in the yard to go bass fishing.. our yard is loaded with them ....how many guys go at night .... thats the best way after a good rain ... pick up sheet loads at night ////