Fishing with Live Worms

An inexpensive and productive way to fish is to use live worms. Earthworms and the much larger night crawlers can be caught or dug up in your own yard or purchased cheaply at local bait shops and many convenience stores. Worms for the most part do not require a bait license to sell one reason why they are readily available just about any where during the softwater fishing season.

Before you purchase your container make sure you check the contents for dead ones. Live worms will bury themselves in the bedding. If you find a number of worms or crawlers on top of the bedding chances are you have a batch of dead or dying worms. 

Live worms can keep for a few days as long as they are maintained in a cold environment. You can refrigerate them, or if this has a tendency to upset your house mates, them place them in a cooler with some cold packs.

If you change the cold pack regularly you can get a couple of days out of them. 

There is no doubt about it, live worms catch fish. Fish that have never seen a worm will attack one given the opportunity. There are many other creatures that look like worms that appear in the fish's environment; eels, snakes and aquatic worms. Worms also get washed into the water as well especially after big rain storms and they become easy prey for hungry fish.

Worm Fishing Tips

When fishing with worms use light lines, one of the biggest mistakes made by anglers is that they use a line that is too heavy. The lighter the line the more bites you will received. This is especially true in cold water where your line is highly visible to the fish.  

It is also important when fishing with worms whether live or synthetic, to keep your hands free of unnatural scents any scents that are on your hand will transfer to your bait, costing you bites. One of the easiest ways to accomplish removing any unnatural scents is to rub your hands in the grass before baiting your hook. You can obtain sprays or oils to coat your baits, but they can be expensive and can also kill the worm before you get it out to the fish.