11-24-2020, 01:16 PM
Randy are you using a whole meal worm? If so tear them in half and kind of squish out some guts... Last year meal worms were my number one bait... However, before I started doing the tear and squish I didn't catch much with them... Meal worms lasted a little longer on the hook than the wax worms and they stand a little more cold too...
Also to go along with the grain story, when I was a kid we used to have a grainery where we stored chopped grain to feed the cattle, in the corner of this building was a big pile of grain dust that we didn't feed because it was basically flour, anyway that pile was full of meal worms, so grain is a natural food for the meal worms, so that's why his idea is so good... I'd just forgotten that until he reminded me...
One last thing on bait, where it's legal to use, I found small chunks of perch was a really good bait as well... Sure hope I can find some bait this year, I haven't even started to look for any yet... Later Jeff
Also to go along with the grain story, when I was a kid we used to have a grainery where we stored chopped grain to feed the cattle, in the corner of this building was a big pile of grain dust that we didn't feed because it was basically flour, anyway that pile was full of meal worms, so grain is a natural food for the meal worms, so that's why his idea is so good... I'd just forgotten that until he reminded me...
One last thing on bait, where it's legal to use, I found small chunks of perch was a really good bait as well... Sure hope I can find some bait this year, I haven't even started to look for any yet... Later Jeff
When things get stressful think I'll go fish'en and worry about it tomorrow!