Quote Originally Posted by shipahoy41 View Post
If you are using this method be sure to place some fine mesh screening at the bottom of your five gallon bucket. I also feed mine tea bags, shredded newspaper, sliced apples or lettuce and yellow corn meal. Keep the mixture damp and they will readily reproduce. This method is for RED WIGGLER WORMS ONLY! If you try to do this with night crawler worms it will NOT work for them. You will end up with a stinky and a smelly mess of useless worms. I grow enough wigglers for fishing as well as for putting in my garden.
We used to have a compost pile on the farm was no problem the red worms were all over the place so if you're in a place where you can start a compost pile they will be there.

when I was a teenager I sold my crawlers for a penny apiece was a good way for me to make a little pocket change to buy more tackle the problem is I couldn't keep up with the demand from the sporting good stores on a good evening in most of the parks where I lived was no problem picking up 500 or more in the evening my uncle bought a deer rifle by picking up nightcrawlers I don't know how many thousand it took to buy that rifle I know was one hell of a lot of them.