Worm Price?

[BilletHead]

1 minute ago, bfishn said:

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" to my brief bucket list. 

                 River worms in the summer and a wad of shad guts in the winter. Used to buy shad guts by the pint or quart. Those channels and blues loved those guts. Caught a ten-pound channel casting from the bank between sheets of ice floating down the river. Good old Osage sitting on a bucket at the shell Osage conservation area. Forked stick and everything. Those were the days. Slick slimy gumbo mud. Could not get to the water to wash your hands. You carried a towel to wipe your hands everything smelled like shad guts. 

[Terrierman]

Shad guts can be good for certain.  Even back then the big channels were pitched back in.  That yellow fat is just nasty.  Now blue cat is a different matter.  No red and it is terrific.  Jon boat and a 9.9 evinrude changed my life and a few buddies too.

[BilletHead]

8 minutes ago, Terrierman said:

Shad guts can be good for certain.  Even back then the big channels were pitched back in.  That yellow fat is just nasty.  Now blue cat is a different matter.  No red and it is terrific.  Jon boat and a 9.9 evinrude changed my life and a few buddies too.

                   Yea you old too. 😆

[bfishn]

14 hours ago, BilletHead said:

                 River worms in the summer and a wad of shad guts in the winter. Used to buy shad guts by the pint or quart. Those channels and blues loved those guts. Caught a ten-pound channel casting from the bank between sheets of ice floating down the river. Good old Osage sitting on a bucket at the shell Osage conservation area. Forked stick and everything. Those were the days. Slick slimy gumbo mud. Could not get to the water to wash your hands. You carried a towel to wipe your hands everything smelled like shad guts. 

That was me exactly. River worms/summer, shad guts/winter. Pretty fool proof.

One example of winter shad was Sherman's Pond... In ~'76, a drinkin' buddy had an Uncle Sherman, who had a 2 acre pond he fed catfish in. He wouldn't let his nephew (my buddy)  fish there, and was notorious for staking out his pond and busting sneak fishers. Sooo... naturally we HAD to fish Uncle Sherman's pond. Learning from the (bad) luck of others, we went at ice-out for a couple nights when no sane person would be out fishing. The very best time there was only a 20x20 corner thawed, you threw out on the ice, drug it in, and only had to wait a minute or two to get a 3-5lb channel. Turned out my buddy was averse to the shad, and asked me to bait his hook (did I mention we were drinking?). I told him if he'd say The Creed I'd bait his hook. The Creed was, "My name is Mar* Cas*, I'm a non-fishing p**** b****, and I don't like shad!" He agreed.

So I baited both our hooks till we got big stringers, he said The Creed many times, and we bugged out with a pre-scheduled pickup. My friend would never admit to saying The Creed after that.

Uncle Sherm eventually busted us. It was either turn ourselves in to the sheriff for trespassing or forfeit our gear. We chose the latter. Sherm must have had a barn full of Zebco 33s, 'glass rods and Coleman lanterns.

Then Uncle Sherm passed away. Guess  who fished his pond the day of his funeral...

[oneshot 1]

12 hours ago, bfishn said:

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?

They are to double in numbers every 60 to 90 days. 

Use to go to the river after a rain and pick up a few hundred worms. 

oneshot 

[oneshot 1]

I've had real good luck buying from Midwest Worms in Conway. 

Get a pound or two of European Nightcrawlers and your good to go all summer if you're using Worms.

oneshot 

[fishinwrench]

I don't wanna rain on your parade, but I don't think this here Worm Farm idea you've got is going to be profitable at all.  

Maybe you should take up crocheting Gnomes like Sugarbritches, she's already made over 200.00 this week 👍 

[snagged in outlet 3]

19 hours ago, Terrierman said:

Jon boat and a 9.9 evinrude changed my life and a few buddies too.

Two girls, Holly and Eleanor, changed mine in high school.  😁

[Terrierman]

28 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Two girls, Holly and Eleanor, changed mine in high school.  😁

That's just sad.  When I was a senior in high school, I was known as Rick the Red Room Waiter at Cottey College.  And the man of joy to a few of the Cottey College debutantes.  

[ness]

53 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Two girls, Holly and Eleanor, changed mine in high school.  😁

First letter on Holly’s last name please. We may have something in common 😀