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Glowing worms products

Okay, I'm getting a little crazy here seeing people doing experimentation on glowing and coloring worms, ranging from earthworms, waxies, and mealworms. Have anyone try them and know their effectiveness?

I'm raising all three worms, and about to venture into adding a bit of added spices to their food base to make them, well, glow with colors for fun. I play with fly lures that have variable colors which make a different..what about live baits? Berkley have them loaded with colors, and garlic additives to boost. Garlic works..oh..do they work. Now..colors..hm..

Here's something to think about as you stare at them:

Waxies: http://www.waxwormkit.com/orders/index.php?main_page=product_info&a...

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Permalink Reply by David, aka, "McScruff" on March 11, 2012 at 6:50pm

Garlic flavored grubs and worms, Leo? Hey, if they dont work as fish bait they could be the next "fad food!"

Well... maybe not.............

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Permalink Reply by Leo Nguyen on March 11, 2012 at 6:55pm

LOL Hey, tell Berkley and every other bait manufacturer that. They lace the crap out of the baits, plastics, marshmallow, down to the drowned live baits. If garlic is not enough, you got ones with extremely heavy salted version. If they don't work, at the least, the compost piles will be absent of flies and mosquitos.

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Permalink Reply by dick tabbert on March 11, 2012 at 7:33pm

I made up 4 containers with 50 in each. put in 64oz containers on the heat wrapped in a blanket to sustain the heat and darkness. I'll be in touch thank you for the info.

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Permalink Reply by Leo Nguyen on March 11, 2012 at 8:31pm

Nice Dick. Great way to give them room to stretch out. You definitely need a 128oz/1gal jar later for the emerging moths. Make sure to check on them every week. Once to see pupae in the container, start removing them. Place them all in a nice larger container, and ready to do some mating, and making eggs. Lots and lots and lots of eggs with that population size you got. Holy smoke! I got a sample population of 25, with 10 from my old winter's collection. They exploded to an amount that I truly lost count.

I'm contacting different vendors that supply colors for bait dyes right now. So far, only Pro-Cure have the lowest cost per 1oz sample. If your painted jigs don't turn head, and the your live baits don't entice them, both the live baits and jigs will scream out to the fish to get their bright colored lunches. I'm also setting a side a sample population of mealworms, waxies, and earthworm with their food sources loaded with garlic powder. We'll see how they attract the fish.

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Permalink Reply by dick tabbert on March 11, 2012 at 10:11pm

Garlic is always a tried and true fish enticer. Make you wonder. I'll be in touch when I get to the pupa stage.

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Permalink Reply by Leo Nguyen on March 12, 2012 at 12:39pm

Hi Dick. Just order quite a few bait dye items from Pro-Cure for testing, including chartreuse UV flash for the rosin as well. Will be experimenting with the worms within the week once the dyes get here. I also bought 1/64oz jigs with ultra bright fluorescent powder paint colors to do test comparison. This way, I'm covering all my bases for data collection. No bias of any kind. Man, one expensive fishing season ahead of me.

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Permalink Reply by dick tabbert on March 12, 2012 at 4:09pm

If there is something I can do if at all possible I will and good luck. Nice to have a Fish Professor of my own well you know what I mean. Thank you for the info along the way. Hope to get out Friday will have the grand daughter over she want to try your bait glue out bad. I will update you on the glue and again thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Leo Nguyen on March 12, 2012 at 4:16pm

Great to hear that she wanted to try it out. Suggestion. Grab yourself a small little stick, like a wood BBQ spit/skewer stick. Pull a small ball of the rosin out, and smack it on the valley of the hook. Less messy than dipping the hooks into the jar, or so I found out during field test. I need to find the photo I took of a whole mess of black ants that got trapped on my hook I left at the launch ramp the wood stump. My goodness, talking about a wiggling pile of enticement right there. If you're planning on using the earthworm, make sure to brush up on the reading on the BBG glue forum discussion. I've updated a few things in there in regards to the glue with live baits usage. Let me know how it works out for you and your grand daughter.