Thread: Wax Worms/Meal Worms?

Originally Posted by Bigmarv58

I hate you. LOL. Not really, think I'm just very jealous, because I missed out on the opportunity to fish in Canada this summer for Walleye and Northern Pike. What dry fly patterns were working best for the Trout?

Bigmarv not to rub salt in the wound but I leave 8/19 for 10 days into Ontario Canada for walleye and pike fishing.25 hour drive but still not to far to go fishing.

Originally Posted by Bobbergone

Bigmarv not to rub salt in the wound but I leave 8/19 for 10 days into Ontario Canada for walleye and pike fishing.25 hour drive but still not to far to go fishing.

Are you sure your not rubbing in just a little bit of salt. LOL.
Well good luck to you. What lake are you going to Fish?
Last year I went to Lake Of The Woods in Ontario and fished for 6 days.

AC - Sure the old ice chest will work fine in the garage. Purchase some peat moss,a bag of cow manure or better yet pick up some dried chips from a local pasture and some soil. I started with a third of each blended. Now soak the blend with pond/lake/creek/ well water.Non chlorinated city water is the key.

You can order some by googling red wigglers or if you come to OKC some time I will give you a start. You can feed the red wigglers fruit and vegetable matter from the kitchen which is what I do or use corn meal. Red wigglers are the top choice for composting so you are killing two birds will one stone. I raise them in an old non working 15 cu. ft. freezer kept outdoors in a covered shed. Nothing special. Red wigglers really love watermelon,cantalope, peaches etc. High sugar fruit. I do not feed them any protein such as meat or any leftovers. Hope this helps. If the ice chest is kept at 70 + degs the worms will reproduce 12 months a year. If you stock the chest with 250 then after 1 year you may have more worms than you will know what to do with. Great bream bait and great for trout too.

Hope this helps.

Not sure if they are Red Wigglers, but I have big worms living under the mulch pile that I built for my veggie garden and they are really HUGE and very lively.

Those are probably local nightcrawlers not red wigglers

Well I'm going to put some of them in my Nightcrawler box this Fall and drift fish them down the river and see if any Walleyes or Catfish will hit them.

Walleye,cats,bass,sandies etc. will knock the dickens out of them drifting them down the river.

What are the type of worms that walmart sales as trout/panfish worms? I've them but was sure what type of worm they really are? Also Cricket George if I get river worms orjust local worms from this area will they also survive and reproduce in a cooler?

AC - I do not know if the local worms or river worms will reproduce in the cooler. I have no experience with them. My experience is just with red wigglers.

Ok I may try the the river worm(I learned the term just the other day) or local worms in a cooler...but also talkin to a guy in Bartlesville that has a worm farm for his business of selling compost soil and other garden type stuff and he has the red wigglers so he may be hookin me up if now I will try in Claremore next.

Thanks,
AC