Found these dried mealworms for birdfeed at a local convenience store today. I don’t have any local tackle shops and no place to easily forage for worms or maggots. Was curious if fishing these would have any decent results
Found these dried mealworms for birdfeed at a local convenience store today. I don’t have any local tackle shops and no place to easily forage for worms or maggots. Was curious if fishing these would have any decent results
I use the dried up ones from Walmart all the time. Those should be panfish candy.
Pale-Wolf-7109 on
I would buy a minnow trap on Amazon and put those in the minnow trap (if legal in your state). Then use minnows for bait.
Those may work, but they’re extremely dry and getting them on a hook is going to be difficult, if not impossible
Hotdog_Frog on
Yeah probably too fragile.
If you want something that you can keep in your bait bag, you can do the little Berkeley Alive! Plastics. The silver minnow is an absolute banger.
Mummy worms exist, never tried them tho.
Recent_Obligation276 on
Totally, but you have to use small hooks or they crumble into dust.
But wherever you fish, you ought to be able to forage for worms. Soil near the water is moist and fertile, perfect for them.
Google “grunting for worms” and follow the instructions. It involves vibrating the dirt to trick them into thinking there’s rain and going for the surface. Most instructions will have you just watch for them to pop up but I sometimes use a small shovel to flip the dirt after grunting and that usually reveals some fatties that didn’t make it to the top.
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I use the dried up ones from Walmart all the time. Those should be panfish candy.
I would buy a minnow trap on Amazon and put those in the minnow trap (if legal in your state). Then use minnows for bait.
Those may work, but they’re extremely dry and getting them on a hook is going to be difficult, if not impossible
Yeah probably too fragile.
If you want something that you can keep in your bait bag, you can do the little Berkeley Alive! Plastics. The silver minnow is an absolute banger.
Mummy worms exist, never tried them tho.
Totally, but you have to use small hooks or they crumble into dust.
But wherever you fish, you ought to be able to forage for worms. Soil near the water is moist and fertile, perfect for them.
Google “grunting for worms” and follow the instructions. It involves vibrating the dirt to trick them into thinking there’s rain and going for the surface. Most instructions will have you just watch for them to pop up but I sometimes use a small shovel to flip the dirt after grunting and that usually reveals some fatties that didn’t make it to the top.