oneshot 1 Posted February 6 Posted February 6 Just got some European Night Crawlers. Thinking of selling them this Summer. How much should I charge? oneshot
FishnDave Posted February 6 Posted February 6 Uncle Jim's Worm Farm is selling 500 for $50. Or 10/ $1. For the sake of a profit...how about $2.50/dozen? Smaller than canadian nightcrawlers, bigger than red wigglers.
FishnDave Posted February 6 Posted February 6 Also, market your business as "eco-friendly"... and have a low overhead by having no container. Bring your own container, tin can, bare hand, or pants pocket. Quillback, BilletHead, Terrierman and 1 other 3 1
oneshot 1 Posted February 6 Author Posted February 6 Well selling bunch of other stuff. I ordered from Uncle Jim's and all of them was dead. oneshot
bfishn Posted February 6 Posted February 6 Well, they're half as long as a Canadian, so half the money. OTOH, they don't need refrigeration, so double that. Then consider the number of fishermen that pinch Canadians in half for various reasons, and a lively 3" crawler should beat a dead half of a 6" Canadian all to heck. Double the $/doz they get for Canadians in your area. Based on the odd habit of people selecting the higher-priced choice under the assumption of "better", it should work. You can always have a 'sale' if it doesn't. How many dozen can you produce in a week? I can't dance like I used to.
bfishn Posted February 7 Posted February 7 Now if you could cultivate Green river worms in salable quantities you could raise some serious road trip dough. I can't dance like I used to.
BilletHead Posted February 7 Posted February 7 10 minutes ago, bfishn said: Now if you could cultivate Green river worms in salable quantities you could raise some serious road trip dough. Very familiar with those. Still can find them but not in the quantity we used to. We just called them river worms. Anywhere along the rivers with that fertile ground. Layers and layers of run off. The Osage, Marmaton, etc. in our area. There were years where Turman flooded and backed way up the tributaries for weeks and months. This killed some of what we call the worm banks. there was a guy in Schell city that had a bait shop. He had an industrial ditch gas operated tamper. I know about those when laying water line in my early years. You would backfill the ditch and run the thing up and down the ditch in layers getting the soil back in the ditch. Like this Wacker Neuson BS50-2 Two-Stroke Rammer— 11in. Shoe, 2.3 HP, 1-Cylinder Gas Engine, Model# 5100030590 | Northern Tool . Well, the bait guy had one and you can tamp the banks and those worms will come to the top where you can pick them up by the handfuls. We would hit the ground with our worm digging potato fork too bringing some up. When the river came up past the worm bank it was time to go catfishing. Those fish would hit the banks feeding. I am sure @Terrierman can attest to that. Another little-known fact that that worm and its slime will luminesce at night when putting on the hook. Also, you bought them at the bait shop in a fiber oil can. Good grief I am OLD! This brings back so many memories thanks @bfishn Terrierman, Quillback, bfishn and 1 other 4 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Terrierman Posted February 7 Posted February 7 When you figure out how to grow the ones you can collect on the streets in town after a big rain, you're in the money. $2.50 for an old oil can half full of river bottom dirt and 2 dozen real AMERICAN worms. BilletHead and bfishn 2
Terrierman Posted February 7 Posted February 7 2 minutes ago, BilletHead said: Very familiar with those. Still can find them but not in the quantity we used to. We just called them river worms. Anywhere along the rivers with that fertile ground. Layers and layers of run off. The Osage, Marmaton, etc. in our area. There were years where Turman flooded and backed way up the tributaries for weeks and months. This killed some of what we call the worm banks. there was a guy in Schell city that had a bait shop. He had an industrial ditch gas operated tamper. I know about those when laying water line in my early years. You would backfill the ditch and run the thing up and down the ditch in layers getting the soil back in the ditch. Like this Wacker Neuson BS50-2 Two-Stroke Rammer— 11in. Shoe, 2.3 HP, 1-Cylinder Gas Engine, Model# 5100030590 | Northern Tool . Well, the bait guy had one and you can tamp the banks and those worms will come to the top where you can pick them up by the handfuls. We would hit the ground with our worm digging potato fork too bringing some up. When the river came up past the worm bank it was time to go catfishing. Those fish would hit the banks feeding. I am sure @Terrierman can attest to that. Another little-known fact that that worm and its slime will luminesce at night when putting on the hook. Also, you bought them at the bait shop in a fiber oil can. Good grief I am OLD! This brings back so many memories thanks @bfishn Well then. Hot water and dawn dish detergent in the right spot is worm magic. Absent a tamper we did a fair amount of jumping down hard on diggin spots ourselves. When it is right, nothing and I mean nothing will outfish river bottom worms - the real night crawlers. Daryk Campbell Sr, BilletHead and bfishn 2 1
bfishn Posted February 7 Posted February 7 24 minutes ago, BilletHead said: Very familiar with those. Still can find them but not in the quantity we used to. We just called them river worms. Anywhere along the rivers with that fertile ground. Layers and layers of run off. The Osage, Marmaton, etc. in our area. There were years where Turman flooded and backed way up the tributaries for weeks and months. This killed some of what we call the worm banks. there was a guy in Schell city that had a bait shop. He had an industrial ditch gas operated tamper. I know about those when laying water line in my early years. You would backfill the ditch and run the thing up and down the ditch in layers getting the soil back in the ditch. Like this Wacker Neuson BS50-2 Two-Stroke Rammer— 11in. Shoe, 2.3 HP, 1-Cylinder Gas Engine, Model# 5100030590 | Northern Tool . Well, the bait guy had one and you can tamp the banks and those worms will come to the top where you can pick them up by the handfuls. We would hit the ground with our worm digging potato fork too bringing some up. When the river came up past the worm bank it was time to go catfishing. Those fish would hit the banks feeding. I am sure @Terrierman can attest to that. Another little-known fact that that worm and its slime will luminesce at night when putting on the hook. Also, you bought them at the bait shop in a fiber oil can. Good grief I am OLD! This brings back so many memories thanks @bfishn Yeah, I've been on the business end of a whacker-packer more than I'd have chosen to... It's odd/cool that we all have similar memories of river worms. I just put "return to the Grand River, dig green river worms, catch fish" on my brief bucket list. Daryk Campbell Sr, BilletHead and Terrierman 3 I can't dance like I used to.
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