Bagworms!?

[dbowling]

he's referring to a actual worm called a bagworm, they make a spider web like tent on a limb which they stay inside of and proceed to eat all the leaves off your tree..
We have Catalpa worms here and I'm assuming Illinois also and they are pretty much good anything bait, catfish love them as doing about any panfish.

[Chance]

I used the bagworms back in the Stone Age (as I tell the Grandkids). I took them to a farm pond and caught quite a few BIG dark bull bluegills and a large snapper. The snapper was coming up to get my fish stringer. Bagworms do catch fish, or they did 45-50 years ago. I need to find some around here.