Black Yard Crickets

[smoothlures]

I was trying to dig up a few worms for a trip coming up in the yard and under some old dead grass in the garden there were a bunch of black crickets...I've always heard they don't work as good as the brown ones from the store. Is this true?

[sbcpower]

we used them when I was a kid and they worked great. I still grab a few when I find them around the yard and keep em for the next trip.

[filletfetish]

I've never heard this, and from my experience, there is no truth to it.

[Cricketcage]

Black crickets work great. My dad and I would pile all the corn stalks after harvest in the garden every year. After a couple of days the pile would fill up with crickets and we'd go gather about 50 of them (using a butterfly net) and go bream fishing. I actually like them better because you can choose the smaller ones which are more attractive to bream and less likely to be picked at by them.

[smoothlures]

Thanks I'll see if I can't grab some today.

[Bronson]

how about letting us know how well they work for you. I've heard the same thing about them not working and never had any luck when I tried them.

[duckhunter]

We used to collect them when I was young.....years ago, lol......but never really had any luck with them.

[Pegleg]

You can catch a slew of em in the wife's flowerbeds. Bury a few coffee cans in the flower bed and sprinkle some yellow corn meal in the bottom of the can. Leave em overnight and gather the bugs next mornin.

[cricket george]

Black crickets do not work as well as the commercially raised brown/grey crickets only because a bait shop sells the brown cricket. A cricket is a cricket is a cricket.

[foul hook]

If you put a black cricket on a hook and place it close to a bluegill , chances are you wont get it back in one piece. try it. they don't cost much at all.