What is the best way to catch earthworms?

[Sportsman95]

I am 13 years old and for about 2 years i have been trying to catch worms using the technique were you wet the ground before night and come out at night and get all the worms. Unfortuanetely I've always been late trying to get the worms so i need a new strategy. Can someone tell me a good strategy to do this?

[TLunge]

It sounds like you have the right technique, maybe there are no worms where you are trying.
Annother good way is to wait until there is a good rain in the summer then just go out at night and pick them right off the pavement anywhere

[Fishing 24/7]

I am 13 years old and for about 2 years i have been trying to catch worms using the technique were you wet the ground before night and come out at night and get all the worms. Unfortuanetely I've always been late trying to get the worms so i need a new strategy. Can someone tell me a good strategy to do this?

best technique RIGHT there!

[plncrzy]

When I was 7 years old, I discovered that I could steal worms from the robins I would watch the robins land int he yard and pull worms out of the ground, as soon as they did, I would run toward them, the Robin would squack, thereby opening its mouth and dropping the worm. I would pick it up and put it in my pail of dirt.

Within 30 min I would have well over a dozen worms. Then I would grab my Bamboo fishing rod and head own to the lake where I would catch rock Bass and Sunfish.... Oh the good ol Days!

Anyway, Grab a shovel and dig up a garden area (dont dig up the flowers/vegetables, but anywhere around it where there is lots of top soil... is a good place for large worms

[Grimace]

Use palmolive dish soap with the water. the worms hate it and crawl right out of the ground. doesn't take much just a teaspoon or so in a 5 gallon bucket. Cheers

[Grimace]

Worms hate some dish soap more than others as well. It sounds funny but I am not joking. IT WORKS>

[Grimace]

You can also go to other nice grassy areas use the soap water trick, get a big pile of worms and put them on your lawn and they will go into the ground improving your stock.

[bradford2]

I've done the old rainy day pavement pick-up more than anything else for worms.

When I was younger though we always went out at night and looked in the grass with a flash light. I remember having to dim the light with some sort of saran wrap because it was too bright....

[slop]

Well Sportsman95, this may sound a little crazy but when I was your age, we used to use the spices found in my moms cupboard.

We would take Keen's powdered Mustard and mix a bit into a small pail of water, then slowly pour the mixture down as many worm holes as we could find. Within minutes we had enough worms for an afternoon of fishing. Pretty cool to have worms coming up to the surface under the hot sun of the day.

Give it a try!

[Jimmay]

I was going to post about using electricity to drive the worm up from the ground but then I realized that I didn't want to encourage anyone to try and kill themselves.

[almontefisher]

One of the ladies in my office who grew up in the south said they used to get sticks and drive them into the ground and then rub a brick up and down the stick...Apparently the noise bothers them. Now I have not tried this so I do not know if it works or not. If someone tries it let me know

[landshark]

If you just stick with your strategy you will be fine. The only thing you are doing wrong is trying to pick where the worms arent. If you can go to a golf course thats the best place. It doesnt hurt to ask permission to do so. If you cant get to one then try another spot easier for you to get to

[bucketmouth]

We used to pick from a certain local golf course late at night between watering cycles... you could pick them off the greens by the fistful. If you use a flashlight, either quickly shine away from the dewworm once you locate one or just place a red filter over the lens of the flashlight.

[HogHunter]

Well, you must use caution, but...if you can get your hands on a set of worm shockers, it's the ticket. Stick them in the ground, plug them in, and get ready. Within a minute or so (depending on how deep they are) they will be crawling out as fast as they can. Too easy. I didn't realize it was the sound that drove them out; I thought they were getting shocked...either way, it works.

I haven't seen them in a while though and in fact, all the ones I have seen were homemade so I don't even know if there something similar out there available.

If you happen to find a set, use extreme caution. There's alot of juice running through those things!

[landshark]

Well, you must use caution, but...if you can get your hands on a set of worm shockers, it's the ticket. Stick them in the ground, plug them in, and get ready. Within a minute or so (depending on how deep they are) they will be crawling out as fast as they can. Too easy. I didn't realize it was the sound that drove them out; I thought they were getting shocked...either way, it works.

I haven't seen them in a while though and in fact, all the ones I have seen were homemade so I don't even know if there something similar out there available.

If you happen to find a set, use extreme caution. There's alot of juice running through those things!

Thats interesting, I have never heard of that. Sure Almonte, get the kid fried. lol j/k