Plant worms (White worms)

[suskymusky]

Anybody ever try these for bait?I ran out of bait a few years back and started digging for worms by the river bank.I found only a couple of tiny redworms, but I found these large white and green worms.They smell horrible and don't look so great , but they work better than redworms.In an hour I caught four different kinds of fish on them: Carp, Walleye, Channel cat and Smallmouth.

[broken rod]

ill have to give that a try

[reelcharacter]

SM,

Can't say as I have ever run across them before. (And I "grew up", up to my ears in mud and dirt, in a "country boy's" playground).

-Reelcharacter

[Bigfish57]

sounds like june bug Larva to me......big fat white grubs.

[reelcharacter]

In the course of landscaping and digging in the dirt, I have come across "grubs in the grass"; either larva of the June Bug, Japanese Beetle or other flying critters. These grubs will be white or off white, have a semi-curved shape and have a blackened head. I have used the grubs some for fishing, but the hectic Landscaping season keeps me too busy to wet too many lines. I would think these grubs could be dynamite bait for Panfish, Trout and etc.

In May and June here in Central New York, the adult June bugs will be seen in sometimes large numbers swarming around tree canopies in the evening. I tried a couple of the beetles once, but with no success. Has anyone ever used the beetles for fishing?

-Reelcharacter
 

[suskymusky]

I'm talking about a species of worm, not grubs.They have the shape and segments of a nightwalker,but have blunt ends and are whitish or greenish and smell  real bad.I find their tunnels in the mud by the river in the summer near the waterline .Then I get a stick or something and dig for them.I usually only find them in the morning.I've tried  japanese beetle grubs before but I never had much luck.

[WANNAKETCHUM]

I have never heard of such a worm although they remind me of a really bad joke I heard once...I'm not gonna post it...You'll just have to use your imaginations....WK 

[peple of the perch]

ive seen one of these before i think. can u post a pic of these worms maby it is a new species of worm u never know

[reelcharacter]

Think I  may have run across one of these worms (didn't care to smell) while edging sod on a landscape job today. Next time I will take a jar along with me. Found a fair number of white june bug / japanese bettle larva in the lawn as well.

Bad for lawn, good for fish . . .   

-Reelcharacter

[peple of the perch]

it is problabbly the strong smell that makes it such a good bait

[suskymusky]

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[suskymusky]

Here are some I dug up on Sunday.See how they coil up when you touch them?