start your mealworms now

[rocket rich]

Now Is The Time To Start Your Mealworms For The Spring And Summer. Buy One Small Pack Of Mealworms Not Mighty Mealy Regular Put Them 45-50 In 2 Pounds Of Wheat Meal Or Chicken Laying Mash And In A Month You'll Have Beatles And Then In 3 Weeks You'll You Worms Make Sure To Give Them Some Moisture In The Way Of Slick Potatoe Or Banana Peel Every Week Or So. All This Takes About 3-4months///

[J White]

Thanks for the info. Could you tell us about what type of containers, etc?
How big an operation would it take to supply maybe five dozen or so a month?

Many years ago I used to buy them at a bait store here, and the big, big
bream loved them. But nobody keeps them anymore, and I might just
try growing some.

[slimeyslab]

I would like some more info as well. Do many of you use these to tip your jigs?

[rocket rich]

If You Start With One Little Box From Walmart Or Your Bait Shop Which Is About 45 Mealworm And Put Them In A Plastic Container , I Use One Of Those Pans You Get When You Are In The Hospital You Really Need Two Of Them The Mealworms Can't Crawl Out So The Wife Won't Get Too Mad If You Keep Them In The Family Room Now When The Worms Turn To Beatles Seperate The Beatles And They Will Lay Egg You Will End Up With Several Thousand Mealworms Real Quick 4 Months. And Then The Process Continues But A Some Point You Got To Stop It Or You'll Have A Million. I Use Them For My Grandkids To Catch Bluegill. Real Easy..

[rocket rich]

Oh Don't Forget The Chicken Lay Mash Or Wheat Bran Only About One And Half Inches Of Either Or So

[Chowan]

good info thanks do any of u guys use em for crappie

["G"]

I raise my meal worms in plastic buckets. Its easy to do and I never have to buy bait. I bed them in wheat bran and give them a lettuce leaf once a week. You can buy the wheat bran at any feed store or farm supply.....about 8 bucks for a 50 lb. bag......one bag will last a year.

[J White]

Thanks guys! Another project to work on :D

[crappietime]

Great another project for me to work on this winter.Like I aint got enough already that pertains to fishing.I am about to take up my last year project for a bait tank and work on it and get it up and going then I read this and think I will have to start that now also.:o Always something to do with fishing for me.

[bttmline]

G-3, I see 13-13-13 in the background. Does that make em gro bigger. Also, Why the numbered buckets, do you grow them in stages?