Nightcrawlers from Bait to Bin

[Steven Chow]

I tried to learn how to fish over Labor day weekend during a camping little camping trip at Clearlake State Park in California. After 2 days and about 6 hours of fishing I came up empty handed although my sister who was also just learning caught a 6 and a half pound catfish on her first cast!

In any case, the bait shop had set us up with a 2 dozen nightcrawlers and we only ended up using 6 of them.... leaving me with 18 leftover.... so I decided to toss them in a 1 quart plastic bin with some kitchen scraps and see how they do. Hmm.. anyone know what kind of worms these fishing bait nightcrawlers are?

[DeDe]

So are the nightcrawlers still in the 1-qt plastic bin, or did they get introduced to your general population?

[Steven Chow]

Here's a photo of the fish. It seemed really big when I first saw it in the water. I wasn't thinking we'd catch anything since it was really our first time fishing... my first thought was that is huge how are we going to deal with that.

[Nathan Scholten]

Hey Steven!
It's been a while, business is picking up so its been about a week since Ive had a chance to log on.
6.5 lb do you have a picture?
I find that I do best with worms in freshwater.
I too have also read that women make better fisherpeople than men. The article that I read claimed that it was due to the pheramones on their hands and it is transferred to the bait when the bait the hook. FWIW my 9 yr old daughter often does better than I do fishing side by side with the same bait.
Hope all is well in SF.
Nathan J.

[Dwayne]

Steven
We do a lot of fishing, mostly saltwater, and we do not regularly use worms. I hear however, they will work on some saltwater fish. If you read my profile you will see that I got into worms by trying to keep my granddaughter's fishing worms alive. We were using some EFs from a local store that also sells "Nightcrawlers". I think they use many kinds of nightcrawlers for fishing including, Canadian, African and Euros. Yours could be any of these or something else. Bait stores are known for selling misidentified worms. PS I have found generally that women make better fishermen than men. Makes sense in my experience that your sister caught the big fish on the first cast. I have been there!! Have fun with the worms (whatever they are).
Dwayne