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?
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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?
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. :)
I've never heard this, and from my experience, there is no truth to it.
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.
Thanks I'll see if I can't grab some today.
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.
We used to collect them when I was young.....years ago, lol......but never really had any luck with them.
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.
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.
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.
Ain't that the truth. Thumbs UpQuote:
Originally Posted by foul hook