I enjoy cast netting for baitfish off the beach. It proves to be fun and also a suprise at sometimes. One time I made a blind cast in waist deep water and ended up catching a stingray. It is a lot of fun. I also enjoy catching perch on the lake.

Night crawlers i eather dig for them or i waite for it to rain out.

I love catching them all. Crawlers, crayfish, hoppers and minnows. It is a sport within itself. As a small kid (early 70's) I'd travel far and wide to catch bait and sell it to the guys who fished the ponds and creek near my house. I made good money. My favorite crayfish trap was a huge roll of farm fence left in the river with a little bit of meat in the middle. The crayfish would get caught in the fence long enough for me to roll it to shore. My minnow seine has got to be 30 years old. Good times.

I stepped out one morning and my whole patio was covered with worms. I filled an entire trash can lid thick with them. My girlfriend was still in bed so I went in and showed her my good fortune. She didn't like it at all.

We were camping and fishing by a small but normally productive river in So.Mo. one night with nothing biting. Luckily my buddy caught some kind of shad so we cut it into small pieces and began catching crawdads. With a few beers in us we filled a playmate cooler to the top and boiled them babies up at 2 in the morning. Hit the spot.

Went on many a nightcrawler hunt when we were kids. Also seined for minnows and crawfish.

I've had a taste for crawfish for a month or so ... haven't seen them in the stores. I wonder if that cajun restaurant is still open. I miss those Louisiana evenings with a few pounds of crawfish and a beer dining over newspapers spread out on a picnic table. Shuck and suck. The simple things in life.

I love to catch little perch, just to let them get annihilated by pike in a feeding frenzy.

worms they are fun to catch and fish

Growing up in Florida we used to grunt worms up. Anyone here ever heard of that? Now days I just wait for a good rain and pick them up in my driveway.

The night before a fishing trip we go out nightcrawler hunting. It has turned into as much of a trip as thr fishing.

I still remember the times my dad would send me out to the chicken coops and tell me to load up a bucket with worms for the next days fishing trip.

Crawfish trips were great as well, we would use dip nets and walk little water holes and creek beds to load up on crawfish.

Grasshoppers, we would go out at night into the tall weeds near our house, the big giant grasshoppers would all be sitting at the top of the weeds, all you had to do was stay quiet and move very slowly, you could pickup more than you could count. We filled bags full and would use what we wanted on the next days trip and freeze the rest for future trips.

We built bait boxes as kids to keep grasshoppers and other insects alive for future fishing trips.

Gathering bait for the trips was almost as much fun, if not more fun than the actual fishing trip.

my older brother taught me how to nightcrawlor"hunt".and me and one or two of my buddies go out and find dozens and dozens ofem for all types of fish

I often collect bait like this even though i rarely use it,

Until I mastered throwing a cast net for Menhaden/Bunker..I used to snag bunkers with a weighted or an unweighted treble hook 10/0...and if toothy Blues were around, nothing beats hooking up on one as you bring your bunker back to the boat. Many times there would be a quivering half eaten bunker...just dangling from my treble with the exposed hook just 1/4 of an inch away from the bite...Snagging and dropping to a Striper is still a blast....JC, Pajamas and flip flops...what? No pictures of this event?..

i love to throw a cast noet out in my pond. not only do i catch plenty of minnows for bait but i've also caught a couple of large-mouth and my friend caught a catfish. there is no telling what you will catch.

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I could not agree more on the hellgramites, they are a killer catfish bait here in Texas, wading streams and turning over rocks for them is a fun adventure.

If you are looking to catch night crawlers on a warm summer night and doesn't look like rain there is another way to make the monsters come out of the ground. When I was 12 I started my own night crawler bait store. In order to catch them and keep up with the damand I used to wait till dusk and go out and set the sprinkler in the lawn and turn it on for about an hr. Afer dark I would go to the same area and drench the lawn with the hose. A half hr later the night crawers would think it's raining and lay on the ground and I would just have to scoop them up.

I remember when my mother first showed me how to catch crawlers. That's right my mother. I was about 6 years old and they were the hardest darn things to catch. I must have been walking around outside for hours. Everytime it rained i would wait until dark and run out with my flash light. my parents didn't mind, but the neighbors were a little freaked out at the flashlight outside their window at 10:30 at night.