Thread: Anyone fish with these for crappie?

Ive never used them, but they are around my house as well. By the hundreds, but this year charlotte had planes spray for them and we dont have that many

E&E I have the small catepillars..by the hundreds like I believe you are speaking of...but mine are not the same thing . These are the true catawba worms...or catapla worms...they live and feed exclusive on a catalpa tree. Here is a link that explains a lot about the catalpa worm. Old time fishermen called them a worm tree and planted the tree just to get the worms for fishbait.

http://www.ag.auburn.edu/enpl/bullet...alpasphinx.htm

Pop Pop they are about as good as it gets for bream the trick is to turn them wrong side out. Just cut one in half and thread it on the hook rolling it wrong side out. They are white on the inside and tuff, you can catch several fish on one bait. My son inlaw uses them for cats. We freeze them and use them all year, but are better off the tree.

good catfish bait too.

The very best bait for blue cats, several years ago, the state record for blue cats changed hands many times in one year because of fishermen drifting in the deversion canal at Santee and caught fish in the high 80's with catalpa worms. I got 10 trees meself and ifen it an't too dry, ought to have some this summer.

I have hundreds of the small ones, but we have alot of those big ones.

i remember as a kid dad would take us to his brothers house to pick them from his tree

don't know if its true but heard you can freeze them in corn meal and they're almost as good as fresh. Don't think I'd batter in corn meal and fry.