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Fish Bait
Brookwood
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Buying night crawlers to go fishing has become quite inflated in recent years. Wasn't long ago, I paid about a dollar a dozen. When I ran across this photo, I told myself that I will never ever complain again about the price of crawlers!! 😁
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I pad like $6 for 18 yesterday, but that one is 80 times bigger
Looks more like a sod worm to me.
That thing would just throw the fish into the boat and go back for more (on his own).
Probably get more protein eating the bait than from the fish! 😁
They grow that size in South America and Australia. Or it might be doing steroids.
Good lord! That guy must have the tiniest hands in the known universe!
Ewwwwwww
LOL ^^^^^
...when I was about 12, we had a flooding rain storm and the old man down the road came down and had a 3 gal. metal bucket full of those, he used 'em on a trotline, he just reached in half way to his elbow and scooped up a giant, slimy, squirming handful...another good reason I only bass fish ...only worms/lizards I use are plastic...that monster looks like it could slither up around your neck and suck your blood...
When the grandkids come up we catch them at night, they are getting pretty good at it!
Never thought of using snake for bait, might try it when the bite gets slow.
WTH is it?
It is an earthworm. But it ain't from around here.
I thought that it looked like an E/W, but have never seen such a thing, Dale. Where are they located, and why are they so large?
They were right in your old backyard!
The Oregon Giant Earthworm!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_giant_earthworm
Just skip the fishing part and fry that up!
They are found in South America and Australia, up to 3 feet long. I only ever saw bullet ants in Australia, and they were only 1" long.
That photo does use some forced perspective.
now thats a earth worm
as a kid my job was to go out after a rain and catch night crawlers my dad loved to fish and catching them meant we could go fishing buying them was a last resort and then only dad got to use the ones he bought or he would tear one in too tiny pieces for us kids .
I eared a few quarters from the neighbors who like to fish also they would give me a quarter for a couple dozen not as easy as pop bottles but a quarter was a quarter back then
I think about it now when it rains , our back yard had hundreds maybe thousands come up after the spring rain funny I still think of the quarters I could have earned LOL
time and old age I am too slow to catch them and no way my back would handle bending over just tying my shoes is a Olympic event now
but as a kid it was a good way to spend a couple hours after dark with out cheap flashlight and even cheaper batteries if they were not dead or having to bump the light to get connection to get it to work .
having one of the new headlights that strap around your head would have been a miracle 😍
I remember putting the D cell battery's on top of the heating stove ( dads suggestion ) to get a few more minutes of life out of them 😥 it worked not sure how even now and glad they did not explode 😲
With its many rings........I'm guessing.....a Saturn-worm! 😎
Ya! That thing is a "Graboid" for sure!!
Where's Reba?😍