Thread: Catalpa worms?

Back in the day I was told to "shimmy up that tree boy and give her a shake." Then what we didn't fish with we put in cornmeal and froze them


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I remember fishing for bluegills with my Grandpa many, many years ago. We always stopped at some catalpa trees along the way to get the worms on them.

Great bream bait!!

My uncle has a lot of Catalpa trees. He gave me all the papers he had on the care and raising worms. I did a lot of research online and added to the papers. I posted it in the Live Bait section. I looked, the section goes back to 2010, I know it was before then. Guess a sticky should have been made. I had it in an email account, but lost it.

If you find them and want to save them for later, put them in a freezer bag with water and yellow or green food coloring. When you get ready to use them thaw them out and they look just like they did when you froze them. The coloring keeps them from turning black.

Cranebrake found some of your info on page 4 of livebait. Have 30 trees coming good from last spring from seeds. Did loose 13 and replanted this spring from allowing worms to get on little trees and a young tender buck that marched up one row and down the next fighting them. The largest is over 7' with several others with 1 1/4 to 1 1/2" dia. Started seeds in jiffy pellets and then to #1 pot with 6month water/feed miraclgro pottig soil. Here all we have is sand and trans planted root bound tree from pot into hole with about 1/3 bucket of same potting soil. water water water I have been pleasantly surprised with results so far. Will try to post photos

Originally Posted by BNell

Cranebrake found some of your info on page 4 of livebait. Have 30 trees coming good from last spring from seeds. Did loose 13 and replanted this spring from allowing worms to get on little trees and a young tender buck that marched up one row and down the next fighting them. The largest is over 7' with several others with 1 1/4 to 1 1/2" dia. Started seeds in jiffy pellets and then to #1 pot with 6month water/feed miraclgro pottig soil. Here all we have is sand and trans planted root bound tree from pot into hole with about 1/3 bucket of same potting soil. water water water I have been pleasantly surprised with results so far. Will try to post photos

Faster to start limbs (root) using root tone and potting them over using seeds. There are 3 types and best IMO is the Umbrella Catalpa tree . Stays small and easier to collect worms . They tend to have lots of leaves to feed the worms too

Why does a tree not produce worms?