caught some just now and waited to grab some of see if they was gonna rattle afore i picked em up.
this getting old and fat really stinks when trying to get some fish bait.

Picking up a coffee can of night crawlers will put your back to the test! lol

Duck tape a trash bag over the snowblower chute and blow em into the bag,,no bending over.Or use a BB gun.

If you can’t catch 10,000 nightcrawlers every single night from spring till fall, you’re not gonna get the job.

Haven’t night crawled in years.....but showed the boys when they were young. Its nice when you catch them having sex....get 2 at a time ...lol

lol hands done got too stiff and stove up can't pulll that off any more

Best night when I was younger was 6,000 .
Takes me a lot longer now,I don't bend so well.But I still have the hand speed and hand eye coordination.Knees being shot don't help.
Tom

I put on a head lamp and crawl on my hands and knees. That getting up and down is tough. Plenty wet enough now but still too cold.

Used to get em by the scoop shovel full around the grain elevators after a good rain storm.

soooo,i pick an hour or 2 before daylight and here i can get as many or more in half the time as many,many more are all the way out.more just pickin em up then and not catching really.lot easier on the crawlers also.

I've noticed them clear out right before daylight, wonder why?

Hard find them in the wooded leaf litter! I go down to town where pavement. Use long handled upright dust pan & whisk broom W/ l h. Sweep them off pave at day break. Easy standing, no aches. Not patented ...Tut

reckon they don't want to get eat

light i was using last night was too dang bright had to cover it with my hand or they would take off like it burned em.

I can pick a few to fish with in my back yard on right kind of night. Don't fish much with crawlers my self. The wife likes to use a piece crawler for sunfish. She don't fish enough for me to mess around picking crawlers for her so we just buy a dozen when she goes..I find them hard to keep.. Buddy of mine has keeping them little more down to a system. He goes out after heavy rain picks them off the street puts them in dry bedding..
Here we can also buy them from the Amish reasonable price in large quantities..Not sure if they pick them up or dig them?

Mac

A big gob in early spring in the river can produce big cats. Plenty of drum carp and buffalo too. I use them for catching sunfish and bullheads mostly for bait though those big chunky bullheads or big green eared sunfish make a nice meal too. In the right conditions a jig trailing a night crawler is a good flathead bait. I just checked my yard. Rained again last night but no worm holes or worms. still to cold here.

How many to make a gallon? Thanks

Yah shine the light at your feet....and let the softer light go ahead of yah.

I used to use a piece of red cellophane over the flashlight lens. Works great. Joints are too shot to do it now.

You need a Red lense cover

I would put my light in a plastic one gallon milk jug. I cut away part of the top but left the handle on.Made for a nice diffused light and I could slide the jug on my belt .
Seemed like they started mating after mid night,so you could get 2 at a time.
Tom