If you want to catch a fish in a hurry, you might want to start with the right bait. "What do you mean?" You say? "Just go buy some "Night Crawlers" from the local bait store." You say?
You might actually want to give it some thought. "Night Crawlers", or "Canadian Night Crawlers" are BIG, FAT, JUICY, worms. They are from Canada(Naturally.) This may not be of concern to you, but then again... you might want to think about it for a second.
Do you always lose your worm?, Do you live or fish in a warm climate?
These worms are huge! This makes them easier to get on the hook, making them perfect for kids or anyone that is impatient or impaired, or maybe drunk. Unfortunately this means they also come right off and the fish can nibble it away without getting hooked. This means that you have to put on another worm every ten minutes and the fish get a full belly while you stand around hoping to catch dinner.
If you go fishing on a hot(or warm) day and you set your "Night Crawlers" out(especially in the Sun), then in only a few short hours your worms will be cooked. Yes, even in the polystyrene container, even if they were refrigerated, even if you set them in the shade. They "melt". They die quickly and then you are much less likely to catch anything seeing as they are not that lively to start with.
I live in Texas, so it gets really hot down here. These huge worms originated in CANADA. They are not native to this part of the country and are imported all the way to Texas so that you can pay extra to NOT catch a fish. Fish down here aren't very keen on eating these worms. Why? Because(I think) caterpillars fall into the lake from the trees, grasshoppers fall in, bugs of all kinds find thier way into the water... things from another country obviously are inherently foreign. It is my experience that they are more likely to bite on a native variety of worm or other bait rather than something they or their ancestors have never seen.
Here you can find earthworms in your garden, under rocks(watch for snakes etc.!) and the fish bite on them without fail. However, I think that they are still a little fat and easy to get off(and on) the hook. You can find "Red Wrigglers" in some places here(you may know other names for this worm variety). They often can be "farmed" simply by having a "compost pile" with rotting fruit scraps. They love the fruit so they could thrive easily. They enrich the soil and they have a deep red color.
The Pros about "Red Wrigglers"
1)- Lively as can be! They call them "wrigglers" for a reason!
2)- They can withstand the heat so much better and longer. You could fish dawn to dusk.
3)- You can get them free if you make a compost pile. No hunting for bait, its in your back yard!
4)- They are thinner so the fish have to bite down to strip them off the hook and are therefore, more likely to stay on the hook and enable you to catch many fish on one worm instead of one fish per five or ten worms.
5)- They don't smell as bad as the big ones(mainly because they don't die so easily- they're really tough!).
You can also find grub worms or meal worms. I think that is what I got from a bait store years ago. They were labelled "Wax Worms" I believe, but they were very much alive(stayed that way for a while too!) and were small and fit on a small hook perfectly. I used to catch a lot of nice fish with those. Maybe they weren't meal worms, correct me if you know what I'm talking about.
This just might be the wormest summer ever!
FissionMan:~)
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