Thread: Pick Your Own Red Wigglers

Red wigglers are known for being an excellent bluegill bait. Bait stores are sometimes not open when you want to go fishing, and the price they charge for red wigglers is way too high. The solution is to just raise your own. Here is how I do it.




Feeding worms is the fun part of it. Just use yellow corn meal sprinkled on top of the bedding. Cover with damp newspaper. Add food by lifting up the bedding, depositing the scraps, and always covering it with the damp bedding.

Good post there young man

good post thier ship. thats excatly what i am going to be doing. is rasing my own wigglers. you cant find them in ths city at a decent price. they range from any were 4.50 to over 6.00 bucks for them wigglers. and like you said baite shops are not someties opened when you want to go fishing like on sundays. oh and about the coffee the grounds thing, talk to you local starbucks mgr. they usually reclye them but some of them will give them to you for free. i am lucky on that part we have a starbucks in the store were i work and i can get them for free i have all ready asked the mgr thier and she said yes.

Ship, do you put hardware cloth (to keep the birds out) over the Coffee grounds for the solider fly larvae?
1perchjerker

Yep, the good ol compost pile. We have one in the backyard next to the garden and thats where we get our worms when we go fishing. When I was a child, many many moons ago, my Grandfather had a "worm bed" and 2 ponds on the farm. When I got ready to go fishing I'd go out to the worm bed and dig some red wigglers and catch a mess of bream, yep there were some mighty good memories from that part of my life.

The Maggots looks alot of like Wax Worms, So are they maggots or wax worm or the same thing

Thanks for the post / info , been thinking of raising my own , you make it seem simple

Here is what I raise my red worms in. I drilled some drain holes in the bottom and added 4 inches of gravel...then I mixed peat moss and potting soil together and filled it about two thirds of the way up. I feed them cheap dry dog food and water them down once a week.

Originally Posted by Dirthead

The Maggots looks alot of like Wax Worms, So are they maggots or wax worm or the same thing

Thats what i was thinking, and No a maggot and wax worm are not the same.

Originally Posted by Buckeye Mike

No a maggot and wax worm are not the same.

Yeah, maggots are fly larva. Wax worms are bee moth larva.