I picked these Saturday night. I’ve been picking them in the old part of Hudson for over 40 years now. My back doesn’t last long now either. You need to get them when the gett’n is good.
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I much prefer the Buss Bedding
X1000! Dirt is horrible. Mud everywhere. Mud on your hands when you’re counting them out, mud on your hands when you’re using them , mud in your boat, I will never use dirt again. Buzz’s Bedding is great! If it gets on your floor it just dries up and blows out on the way home. Never have an issue with Buzz’s bedding. I can keep Crawlers the entire summer. Do yourself a favor and buy bag.
If anyone is ever in Alexandria and wants to pick nightcrawlers let me know. When I walk across my yard at night it sounds like bubble wrap. 
Back home in Wisconsin we used to catch nightcrawlers all the time, there were only 2 areas, by the barber shop and a house on the corner. We’d always get enough to fish with. When I moved to Minnesota there were no crawlers on my property so what does an enterprising individual do, dump your leftovers in the garden. 28 years later I still have a nice supply of them however because the black dirt is focused in one area, they have not spread to my neighbors house. One day I read this article in the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer: https://webapps15.dnr.state.mn.us/volunteer_index_api/past_issues/article_pdf?id=67 stating that Nightcrawlers are an invasive species and if where you lived was once covered by a glacier, if you have them, someone put them there. I never saw a law banning releasing crawlers and this article isn’t that old so apparently nobody seems to concerned with this. It is definitely nice to have a ready supply within walking distance. I suspect there are other properties that have them as you can see them on the roads a few block down when it rains. Getting older, picking them off the road is easier!
My yard is absolutely infested with nightcrawlers. My 8 year old daughter and I have picked 5 nights and averaged around 20 dozen per night. I ordered 250 bait containers and she’s been selling crawlers by the dozen for $2.50. I think we’ve sold around 60 dozen so far. We keep 10 dozen in clean bedding in a styrofoam worm box to allow for quick transfer to individual containers. the rest stay in a big kitty litter pail that I drilled some holes in the bottom and lid. layered bedding and black dirt. threw some spinach and coffee grounds on top and they are staying fat. I may or may not have picked 5-6 dozen of the biggest fattest ones yesterday to set aside for the coming holiday weekend at the cabin. 
I have fed my crawlers coffee grounds for years, don’t overdue it but it works great!!
They are all happy.
Are those back scratchers next to the crawler box?
Anyone have jumping worms?
Theyre currently destroying a section of my yard.
https://extension.umn.edu/identify-invasive-species/jumping-worms
Looking like another good night! 
-J.
If you are pulling spinners and boards it works pretty good to take a dozen out and have a little cooler with ice water. They get nice and plump and no crap in the boat.
Man These crawlers are quick back in there holes when light is on them.
Man These crawlers are quick back in there holes when light is on them.
red light or don’t shine it on them directly. outside cone
I found a fat juicy one in the parking lot this morning at my office! So I scooped him up and placed him in the grass. But not before he slimed me something good. 🙂
I’m sure none of my coworkers would bat an eye at this by this point. They know me too well!
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I found a fat juicy one in the parking lot this morning at my office! So I scooped him up and ,,,,,,,,,,,
I’m surprised you didn’t just turn around, grab your pole and head for the river at that point.
Hmmm well that sounds like a fun idea! 😁
I think I’ve paid for night crawlers in Canada only, and that is very rare as I use more plastics there. I have picked my own since I was about 5. Where I grew up had tons of people who fished, so I had a small business going with selling to them. At one point it was myself, brother and both sisters doing it. I would pick all night with my brother, while my sisters would sort them by size and handle selling them. After awhile we were selling crayfish, helgramites, and night crawlers.
Triple up some wax paper over the end of you flashlight and hold it on with a rubber band if you don’t have a red lamp. Filtered light is harder for them to sense and no one will “borrow” your light with the slime cover on! Picking worms is just another reason to justify not putting down chemicals on the yard
Are there better places than others to look? I used to find them all the time at night in my dads yard but tried in my yard after turning the sprinklers on Monday nights and didn’t find any.
Are there better places than others to look? I used to find them all the time at night in my dads yard but tried in my yard after turning the sprinklers on Monday nights and didn’t find any.
Id say fresh tilled garden or fresh exposed dirt. no need to look through grass, they are all on top chillin. maybe you got sandy soil? we have a decent sized garden and I bet I could have picked 100 plus if I could take the back pain. I hear golf courses are good and I have one behind the house but I didn’t see much?
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They are all happy.Are those back scratchers next to the crawler box?
Yes, that’s what they are. 4 of them.
It tasted good. 
Also just an idea if you have pine squirrels around, place the turtle shell close for a shot, 15′. The pine squirrels love the shell. We have no pine squirrels to test it on anymore. Bad water here I guess, they must have gotten lead poisoning. 
Back scratchers.
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Would it help a garden to add worms? I’ve been thinking about ordering a thousand or two and spreading them out over my garden.
Which do you think would be better for a garden, nightcrawlers or red wigglers?
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