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Was at Scofield for a few chubs and had a interesting experience.
I had the remains of a couple tubs of questionable worms. (Some were bad others not totally gone but the whole lot starting to smell a bit.)
With the mindset of "chubs will eat anything" I decided to use them rather than toss em in the garden.
Chubs will eat em. So will small cuts.
Now the interesting part. When I ran out of the stinkers and started in with fresh worms the bites slowed way down. Still caught fish but not as fast.
Anybody else had this experience? I usually toss the buggers.
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Well, you can bet I won't toss them next time!
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Biggest Brook Trout I ever caught was on a worm that had been in a styrofoam cup filled with peat moss and too much water. And it had sat in the bottom of a boat for about a day too long. It was starting to get stringy and discolored. That didn't seem to bother the fish none.
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Interesting post...........
All along I thought my worms had went bad, I'm guessing I will not be judging anymore bait by its appearance.
Thanx for the post !
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Kind of yucky digging around in a bad worm cup.
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Had some frozen ones the other night, but didn't realize that until I got to the lake, so I used them anyway and they worked, I got a carp that I needed to use for catfish bait, so yup they still work when frozen too... later J
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I had a neighbor a few years back that shared a recipe for fish bait that involved taking a dozen worms, putting them in a bottle in the sun for a day, mashing them up, adding some binding agent and mixing. There were a couple of other ingredients that I don't remember. I never tried it because it sounded disgusting, but sounds like he may have been onto something. He generally used it for trout but claimed it would work on quite a number of species.
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Sound kind of cat fishy to me. The more stink the better.
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I have actually had similar experiences withan old stinky tub of worms. I was just killing some time near town one early summer a few years back at the small filling basin at the mouth of Hobble Creek Canyon. Stocked bows. I only had what I had left in my car which was a simple hook, slip weight, swivel and rotten worms.
I was catching fish left and right while all others around me were literally getting skunked. I probably caught a fish every 5 min until I ran out of bait. This whole time I wasn't sure if I was just in a good spot or if it was the bait. Now I'm thinking bait.
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