How do you put red wigglers in your hook?

Thank you to the rest of you for helping.

Could I be using too big a hook? Trying to put them in a #6 or #4 baitholder might just simply be too big of a hook.

oh, i see you are from wa.


ok.

Use a #6 or a #8 carlisle bream hook and hook them 2 or 3 times and you should be fine. Could the red wigglers are immature and therefore too small?

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Originally Posted by olduckhunter

oh, i see you are from wa.


ok.

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Yep,from the wettest, suckiest, out in the middle of now where everybody knows everyone but could care less about anyone else sucks ville. Us hillbilly backwards arse folks don't have many cow pies to dig in up here. Trust me I wish I haven't lived here so long that my toes and fingers are webbed and I have mold growing behind my ear drums.

Honestly olduckhunter, how do you do it? Now that we have the we can take one and give one out of the way.

I can't belive the ruckus over a simple question. Like Cricket George said, use a smaller hook. 'Gills have small mouth anyway. I like to use an 8 or 10 abredeen, but the same size in an offset baitholder is good also.

I use #8 circle hooks. I do it like southern young gun but I start about an inch from one end and leave about an inch hanging off the other end. I did use a size 6 hook, but the circle hooks hook a lot more gills without them shallowing it. My worms are from 3/16 to 1/4 inch thick. Of course, when you are trying to impale them they make themselves as thin as a thread. ;)
When I fish for channel cats, I put two or three worms on a hook. So there, is a whole glob of worms.
I raise my own worms, but I think they are Canadian worms--not the red wrigglers I used when I grew up. The price of box at wally world is about 3 bucks.
Good luck.

Marion

In Va red worms are like ten cent more a pack but you get 28-32 red wigglers for 2.89 compared to the nightcrawlers at 12 for 2.79, Ive found while yellow perch and white perch fishing they really like wigglers better, Fish4 try a snelled gold aberdeen 4 or 6 and starting at the head thread 3/4 of the worm on the hook. But for bream fishing during summer get the crawlers use a whole one for the shellcrackers

Like I told olduckhunter, we can move on now. Chalk it up to a bad day or whatever, pieces said and done.

How big are your red wigglers? The largest ones I get are about 4 inches and about as thick as 1/4 inch at their widest point near the ring collar thing, largest fatest ones being maybe a little larger. Who knows, maybe my bins are over populated and they are just smaller than they should be but when I got them they were about the same size. Will have to thin them out and see if I can fatten them up. Most of mine are about the width of the inside ink part of a pen and 3 inches if I am lucky.

Once through the collar with a #8 long shank aberdeen hook.