Thread: Bubba goes searching for garden worms

Originally Posted by stinkbait

I use green palmolive dish soap.Just put a few good squirts in a five gallon bucket,fill the bucket with water and dump out on ground,worms will come out of ground ready for pickin.:D

stinkbait:
How long will the worms live after you pick them up???
does the soap have any effect on them??

flycaster,1or2 days for sure.not sure about long term,always just picked what needed temporarily.Since i had a yard full.

After a good rain with dim flashlight is the way I was taught.

When I was a kid we would find where street runoff would run into a deep ravine, which would usually form a pool and a creek. On either side of the creek 50yards from the pool, we would throw down fallen leaves then cardboard on that, then more leaves, you get the idea. It would all be soaked with rain and always damp in the ravine. Then whenever we went fishing, we would lift up each layer of cardboard, and the worms would be on the cardboard, . We'd even get a salamander or two in there.