night crawlers

[Pinetar]

Austrian Hunter - We are headed to Banks Lake for 10 days so we've been doing exactly that all day and YES it does work great. Once the sun drops my yard will be crawling and it won't take long to get the rest that we will need.

[Gobble Doc]

Warm nights, smell of wet dirt and sprinkler's pulsing, discussing strategy.  Yep, that is what it is all about.  I used night crawlers every night through jr. high and high school in an effort to catch every sucker out of the Columbia.  Good memories. 

[HntnFsh]

The soap and water works but the crawlers wont live as long as those gathered at night.If your using them soon its ok.But if you want to keep them awhile I wouldnt do it. Same with the shockers. Ive done it all and the best method for getting crawlers that you want to keep is to gather at night. Keep them in wet moss.Feed them corn meal,cofeee grounds,egg shells etc.

[C-Money]

I have some good memories of crawler hunting with my Brother and Dad. We had a good size worm farm in our basement stocked up for our trips to Port Clinton OH, & Erie Pa,  fishing on Lake Erie.  Walleyes love crawler harnesses anywhere you go!

[Alchase]

Dang, and here I thought going to the nearest store and buying them for a couple buck a dozen was a lot of work, lol.

I use to empty the unused nitcrawlers into a worm farm after i was done fishing. That worked pretty well for a few years, until I left the lid off one morning after grabbing a couple dozen to go fishing. By the time I got home, the birds had cleaned out my nitecrawler supply.
 

[gaddy]

i made a probe out of an old bbq rotissery rod that you plug into an extension cord. damp ground & at night & the little buggers almost jump from the ground. great family fun.

[quadrafire]

I was running a jackhammer in my yard friday,  breaking up some rock. It brought a few to the surface that I saw, but I wasn't looking too hard.

[Austrian Hunter]

Austrian Hunter - We are headed to Banks Lake for 10 days so we've been doing exactly that all day and YES it does work great. Once the sun drops my yard will be crawling and it won't take long to get the rest that we will need.

  I've been doing it this way since since I was a little.