Any body have much luck with them?
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Any body have much luck with them?
The best Catfish, bream bait their is.
Cataplas work well if you can find the trees in your area. I prefer to use Black Soljas because any garden compost pile will breed 10s of thousands of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUf5lhZavj4
Great bait.
Regards
I plant the Umbrella Catalpa trees as they are easier to harvest the worms ,as the stay small in heigth .We slaughter the Channels on our home grown worms .
Umbrella Cataplas, that's like those micro fruit trees? Nice. That's nice. I might have to plant a few. Where did you get them?
I have seen a catalpa worm around her in a few years. But, they arevthe best catfish bait around if you can find them.
I have 8 trees, they ate the leaves completely off one of them. Had to move a few worms to other trees.
How many worms are on one tree?
Do a search online . I start mine by rooting limbs from a local tree that was planted as they are not native .Quote:
Originally Posted by funbun
Depends on size of tree .Quote:
Originally Posted by funbun
Back in the day I was told to "shimmy up that tree boy and give her a shake." Then what we didn't fish with we put in cornmeal and froze them
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I remember fishing for bluegills with my Grandpa many, many years ago. We always stopped at some catalpa trees along the way to get the worms on them.
Great bream bait!!
My uncle has a lot of Catalpa trees. He gave me all the papers he had on the care and raising worms. I did a lot of research online and added to the papers. I posted it in the Live Bait section. I looked, the section goes back to 2010, I know it was before then. Guess a sticky should have been made. I had it in an email account, but lost it.
If you find them and want to save them for later, put them in a freezer bag with water and yellow or green food coloring. When you get ready to use them thaw them out and they look just like they did when you froze them. The coloring keeps them from turning black.
Cranebrake found some of your info on page 4 of livebait. Have 30 trees coming good from last spring from seeds. Did loose 13 and replanted this spring from allowing worms to get on little trees and a young tender buck that marched up one row and down the next fighting them. The largest is over 7' with several others with 1 1/4 to 1 1/2" dia. Started seeds in jiffy pellets and then to #1 pot with 6month water/feed miraclgro pottig soil. Here all we have is sand and trans planted root bound tree from pot into hole with about 1/3 bucket of same potting soil. water water water I have been pleasantly surprised with results so far. Will try to post photos
Faster to start limbs (root) using root tone and potting them over using seeds. There are 3 types and best IMO is the Umbrella Catalpa tree . Stays small and easier to collect worms . They tend to have lots of leaves to feed the worms tooQuote:
Originally Posted by BNell
Why does a tree not produce worms?
Some trees produce worms regularly when others don't . Who knows why. But a moth must lay eggs on your tree .Quote:
Originally Posted by Slab_Man
Give some instruction on your method of doing this. ThxQuote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
Works best early spring when buds (leaves appear to pop ) Cut a thumb sized limb on an angle with sharp knife . Wet and dip in root tone , then push several inches into wet soil or potting mix . Keep watered and leaves should appear . Let it grow long enough to establish roots before transplanting .Quote:
Originally Posted by GWDawg1
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I've never caught a crappie on them. But the cat's and bluegills tear them up! Hands down the best/easiest bait ever. I have 5 acres with 2-3 dozen Southern Catalpa trees, 2 years ago was the first time that I had worms??? dunno why. I can harvest several dozen in 10 minutes when they start dropping. Anyone near me who wants to try them,shoot me a pm and I will gladly hook you up. If I recall it was mid-June when they really started to drop. Made for an unforgettable 4th of July trip. Stay safe.
Great bait. Some people prefer to turn the worm inside out to get to the fish attracting juices and scent.
I have never tried it, but I will, as soon as I have a good harvest. I have been told that you can put live worms in a large Ziploc, along with fresh leaves from the tree, and freeze. When ready to use, thaw and they will still be alive. Please don't shoot the messenger!
I've heard of that. Kinda like freezing tomatoes, when you pull a package in early spring plant some of the seeds for the garden.
I have put up as many as 6,000 in 3 days, all from about 8 trees. I put up 2,300 over one weekend last year. I have not planted the "umbrella", there is a Northern and a Southern species, I prefer the Southern. We often get two cycles of worms per year June / Sept, with the Sept cycle being less than the June. There are other influences, drought or extremely wet springs, fire ants and Armadillos can get at the pupating larva in the ground thus reducing the moth yield for a given year. I have read and noticed some old large trees do not produce, the thought being that the leaves are not as palatable as smaller, younger tree leaves.
Put out some 15 noodles one night in April, catalpa worms on top (3 ft) hooks and 3 to 5 inch bluegills on bottom hooks (10 ft). Caught 3 Channel cat, 5, 14, and 31 lbs, 50 lbs on three hooks, all shallow hooks baited with catalpa worms. Lost one noodle for a while, friend found it up lake several days later with the bottom drop missing, very strong line tied to large barrel swivel with draw knot, so maybe one bite on bream, hope whoever got it had kids to feed. I have caught catfish up to 15 lbs on catalpa worms, the 31 is the largest so far on them. Even though I use them a lot on trotlines and tight lining I was pleasantly surprised with the noodles. We caught a couple hundred catfish tight lining with catalpa worms last year in Texas, current seemed to be the key. if there was current present we could catch limits, (25 per day and min 12 inches in Texas), about every time we went, which was often. Great fun and great for kids.
. How do you put them up?Quote:
Originally Posted by fishbaskett
We have several trees on our farm and most of the time we have two worm hatches per year. sure would like to keep some for gill fishing later in the year when they are out of season, thanks for any help
Freeze them. Don't put them in water, worms in a ice cube not good. Just rinse them off and drop them in a baggie or some other container and put them in the freezer. They will thaw out quickly. I usually dip them in the lake water and lay them on the boat seat they are ready for the hook in just a minute or two.Quote:
Originally Posted by no luck