Whats the best method to get worms from the garden to use as bait for fishing?

Question

Thanks for all the sugestions , but have tried all these methods without any success

Answer 1

Pour some warm soapy water on the ground and they will come up to the surface!!! I remember doing this at school and it worked a treat!

Answer 2

Ideally you should dig it over in the autumn to let the frost get at it but not everyone does and no, you can't have compost in the kitchen. Compost has to be in a container which is placed on soil so that worms can get up inside it and compost the material inside, you can buy a compost bin quite cheaply and just throw in any green kitchen waste but no cooked food, meat or cheese. you can find out about composting on the computer or buy a gardening book, you will need it later when you start planting. Good luck with your garden.

Answer 3

You may not see this, I've only just seen your question. I promise this works as long as you have worms in the first place. With a shovel cut out a square of grass and lift it up. Get a wet cloth and lay it on the soil then put the square of grass back down, do this at night.

In the morning, lift the piece of grass up and worms will be on top of the cloth, and also some underneath.

OK darling

Answer 4

For many years i have bred garden worms in a compost heap.
Commence with say, 1/2 metre square of loose soil, Sprinkle grass clippings, vegetable peelings, a bit of cow manure well rotted and some oats or bran. Turn it over thoroughly.

Just toss your scraps on top as you get them and cover with the damp spud bag.
Keep the lot damp but don't saturate. Cover and protect the lot from rain. Watch 'em multiply. a never ending supply.

Answer 5

plan ahead.
buy a worm farm
all the left over veggies get thrown to the worms
there is a lil tap on the worm farm
this let the liquid out
that is good for burlying up the water
worm farm will never run out of worms
they multiply like rabbits
so u will allways have a heap of worms for bait
and u r been environmentally friendly as well
as you are composting you scraps
good for u good for the garden
good for the fishing

http://www.thewormman.com/index.php?gclid=CNOfgb_QpI4CFQkkhgod7kGjSQ

have a look at that link
it will tell u all u need to know and more
good luck in the fishing department

Answer 6

I would go for the the watering the garden lawn for a while and then go and pick them up at night. If you do it a few times add these to your own wormery and you will never be short of worms again. A big bin makes an ideal starter wormery.

Answer 7

Leave the worms in the garden they are good for it. You need to go into the woods and look under forest debris. When you find a location with lots of worms, drive a wooden stake down a foot or so deep, then saw vertically down the stake towards the ground, the vibrations will drive more worms upwards. Also there are electric probes made just for this purpose. You just poke 'em (hee hee I said poke 'em) into the ground. If you can find an illegal improvised dump site and move the trash you will see very active earthworms called "wigglers" living under it, but please don't trash the place yourself. Good luck, but leave worms in your garden.

Answer 8

if you have a small bit of garden area that you can dump some cheap white bread or cornmeal, and then cover it over with grass clippings and or leaves and keep it wet........
it will stink for a little bit, but you will have a compost heap started..........this is more of a long term solution not an immediate fix

It all depends where you live also......if your house was built at a time when they stripped all of the topsoil off and built on clean fill (sand more or less) and then threw down a few inches of topsoil ....it make some time before you will see nightcrawlers.........have you seen any earthworm castings on the ground? that would be a good sign of nightcrawler activity

Answer 9

If you're allowed to, put sheets of wood flat on the ground, or polythene bags flower pots or anything like that. Just do the rounds whenever you're going fishing. Bound to find enough. Better still, have a compost heap, or a pile of rotting horse manure. and dig through that.

Answer 10

You want to water for at least two hours at night. Then go out at night and just scoop them up with your hands.

A shovel will F_-_ up your yard & kill many of your good worms.

Also this is why they are called "night crawlers" at any good bait shop.

Some people say a full moon makes for the big ones, but I have never noticed a difference.

Answer 11

Dig and loosen a section the size of a wheat bag wet the ground then place a wet bag on top leave a day or so and you will have plenty of worms under the bag ~~