While living in upstate NY years ago my brothers and I would take our old D-cell flashlights out with the incandescent bulbs and we would wrap the lens in wax paper to calm down the brightness of the light. Now like the rest of you we would wait till it had rained all day and the night crawlers would be everywhere...the old house had a basement so I kept the worms in my home made box till fishing time...what at time those days were ...

now to the present...up at the lake house we just move some rocks and BAM there they are those little wigglers...OUCH...it just bit me...

For all who hunt the elusive earthworms; be cautious when doing so with young ones and make sure it is a worm and not the serpent.