Thread: How do you put red wigglers in your hook?

get you 3 or 4 boxes of the canadian night crawlers. i think about 12 to the box that you need to keep in a cooler on ice. pinch about 3/4 of and inch off the worm and put them on the hook. they'll last a lot longer and sometimes you can catch 2,3, or 4 bream on the same piece of worm. especially if you don't keep them in the cooler and they start dying they get tougher to get off the hook. i'll catch a limit, 50, of big bream and no telling how many smaller bream that i throw back culling to the 50 limit on 2 boxes of worms. much easier to handle and put on the hook than the red wigglers.


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True, I can do that but raising the redworms I have literally 1000's of them for basically free. When I am taking 3 kids under 10 years old fishing for perch, gills, crappie and whatever else it is good not to have to spend $30 a day on worms.

No one has any tips for hooking on these little buggers???

Originally Posted by fish_4_all

Okay, this may sound stupid but I am having a hell of a time putting red wigglers on the hook. Those little buggers are easy enough to control but threading them and hooking them is a bear. Small pieces break off, they break in half and they are simply too small to do much with.

This is a major reason why I rarely use redworms. I'd sell the ones you've got and start raising meal worms instead. They're great bait and much easier to handle.

Well I may just have to break down and order some European redworms and African nightcrawlers so I don't have to deal with these tiny worms unless I want to.

Mealworms are an option but a pain in the neck at times. Might have to try the 5 gallon bucket method so I dont have to sort them as often or maybe a larger storage conatiner than a shoe box. Especially if I am gonna use them as bait on a regular basis.

I grew up raising and fishing with the redworms.......keep your worm box covered with wet burlap.....and keep it wet.....sprinkle corn meal and coffee grinds on top of the dirt.......burlap on top

for hooking them up.....hook them in the middle with just the bottom of the hook......do not thread them up the hook........that lets both ends wiggle...very important to keep the point of the hook covered.....if you don't, they will not bite it......one of the best baits there is.....catch bream, sacs, catfish and bass......any questions...holler back....

have you fished much in your life? at 5 years old i didn't have a problem baiting my own hook. i'm sure your kids/grandkids can even if you can't.

i put the hook through about a 1/4 inch from the end of the worm and kind of loop the worm a little and put it through the hook again and keep doing it till the worm is through the hook three or 4 times. i saw someone say hook it middleways throught the hook so that both ends can wiggle, i think thats just giving a fish a worm, all they are gonna do is bit one end that is wigglin and take the worm. if your using 4 inch redworms, that means you will have 2 inches hangin over each side of the hook, when the fish hit it, the hook is nowhere even close to the fishs mouth. just hook the worm 3 or 4 times and its done.

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