Worms

[Hodgey1]

I am trying to simplify my trips to Kipawa and less work while there. I have become a leech tamer and have that under control. My question is concerning worms. I have been using a worm box with frabil worm bedding and such. What a pain in the arss.

Can I stop that practice and do as Pro Nature does, and just put them in the fridge like they do in their containers they come in? Did I mention “like they do” LOL

Also, It just came to me…. Someone here on the board had a cleaner worm technique for the boat? I think it involved possibly keeping some small quantity of worms in a separate bait container filled with water, maybe?

[smitty55]

Moss works very good for worms and it's much cleaner than bedding or soil. The only downside to it is sometimes the worms can get tangled up in it but that wouldn't be a concern for out in the boat.

[rsobotka]

I've been putting the worms in a fridge for years and it works well .

[puckster_guy]

 I've always kept containers of worms in the fridge. They keep well. Maintenance free.

[RickOnt]

Wash the dirt off the worms in a bucket of water.
Then put them in a container filled with moss and put container in fridge till you use them.

That way it is a lot cleaner in the boat.

[RHYBAK]

LOL

Open your livewell
grab a dirty, grubby, filthy worm
Rinse it in the livewell.
Install on hook.
Cast out and hold on.

[Hodgey1]

Thanks all for the replies. I gues i needed to clarify the cleaner worm “ @RHYBAK ”  my crew for next week at Kipawa will include my two young grandsons 5 & 9. Last year fishing locally with them in the boat with worms, you would have thought we were at the fair mud wrestling with the hogs and that was a scant few hours. A entire week in the boat with the little tikes grabbing worms has me wanting to add a pressure washer to the boat. LOL

Where a guy get moss? I’m fresh out here. LOL  Is that something a guy can buy at Pro Nature?

[RHYBAK]

Not sure about Pronature and Moss

I know that when we get our worms out of the big container at the camp, they are in moss already.

When I buy a flat or box of worms, they are in dirt.

[limacharley]

Hodgey-I think I mentioned this method before.

I keep a plastic Folger's coffee can in my boat, I put an inch of water in it. I take a few worms (6) from the dirty worm bedding and throw them in the coffee bucket.
The water washes away the dirt. When someone in my boat needs a worm, they are clean. When the water gets too cloudy, dump the water...start over.

No more dirty worm goo on the vinyl floor of my boat.

[Hodgey1]

I knew someone here had mentioned it previously. Thanks Luc, I will be giving that a try

[smitty55]

Where a guy get moss? I’m fresh out here. LOL  Is that something a guy can buy at Pro Nature?

Just go into any bush, most of the rocks are covered with moss as well as some tree trunk bases.

[crackers42]

Put them in fridge with dirt (no moss) and feed them corn meal they will last for months

Don’t put water in them and don’t rinse them