Learned from Mike Worley, guide on Bull Shoals, that you can keep worms in water. They are cleaner, are nice and plump, and very feisty. He was using a glass jar and was keeping them on ice as I remember. I went out, got a Frabill Leech bag which floats and has a velcro closure. I take the worms out of the soil knock off the dirt, put them in the leech bag and drop them in the livewell. This worked well for a couple of years but then the velcro lost some of it's strength and the worms started escaping into the live well. They don't get away, they end up in the bottom of the livewell, but boy do they not want to get caught either.
Wondering if anyone else keeps their worms in water and how they do it.