The creep is an earthworm, characterized by a large size, up to 30 cm. The body of individuals can be painted in a variety of shades: from brown to pink. The color, vitality and clipping reliability of worms are different. They depend on the habitat of organisms.
Species of earthworms
White worms that live in loamy soils are valuable in fishing. Dark crawls found in sandy soils are less valued, as they quickly break off the hook and live not so long. Although in the dry season there are no other options how to use them. Breaking the blades of even dried mud of clay soil, even in the summer, you can find material for bait. In the summer, earthworms creep out motionless, curling up in a ball and not showing vital activity.
Earthworm Habitats
Worms creeping out as a habitat prefer to choose land with a moderate level of moisture. Favorite places - a garden, park, garden.
The vital activity of the worms is activated in the late afternoon and will gradually increase, going down in the morning. At night, organisms crawl out onto the ground, but only on condition that the level of heating of the earth is up to 150 cm.
A fresh creep is the best fish bait. By the way, high-quality material can only be collected from wet soil, after heavy rain or with heavy dew on the grass.
Creep Fertilizers
Did you know that coffee grounds are a kind of delicacy for worms? If you pour this mixture into the same place in the garden or vegetable garden, then crawls will crawl towards it and it will not be difficult to find them. In addition, it attracts raincoats and oat husk. If you have birds at home and feed them with oats, then worms will definitely settle here. Using these simple top dressings, you will always know where to find the creeping worms as the perfect bait for fishing.
Where to find worms in dry weather?
In the hot season, raincoats are caught like this. Two hours before collecting the bait, the prospective search site is watered (4-5 buckets). After that, the soil is covered with a piece of cloth or burlap. This layer will help protect the area from wind and excess sun. After some time, here you can start collecting worms. To do this, use the pitchfork, digging with a shovel, you can cut the worms creeping out.
Without resorting to additional preparation, worms can be collected at night when the lower tier of vegetation (grass) becomes wet from dew. They select worms with a flashlight, moving as silently as possible. Creeps do not react to light, but they are sensitive to sound vibrations.
Important! If you are a novice fisherman and do not know how to collect worms for bait, remember that you should move around absolutely silently, always using an artificial light source, a lantern with a wide sheaf of light. Being careless, you risk scaring away all the creeping worms.
When selecting a bait for fishing, a professional acts like this: leaves one hand free and the other holds a flashlight. Special dishes (plastic bucket) can be hung on a rope, on the neck, adjusting the length to the middle of the chest. So collecting worms is most convenient.
Remember that those raincoats that were collected from oily soil are characterized by the least vital activity and are worst kept on a fishing hook.
Creep Storage Features
Going fishing, make sure that you have something to keep the bait in. For such purposes, a linen bag filled with moss or moist soil is best suited.
At home, worms selected for bait can be stored for a long time in a wooden box or other vessel with a depth of at least 70 cm. Garden soil is poured into the container, which is covered with a layer of moss or old matting and placed in a cool dark place, for example, in the basement.
Important! In order for the creeping worms to remain fresh and not to lose their viability, the earth must be systematically moistened.
Bait and fishing
In the process of fishing, it is important to create tolerable conditions for the worms. Prepare a large, durable dish so that the worms do not have the ability to crawl out, and it would be convenient for you to take them out of the container.
In the summertime, in addition to the earth, algae are added as a supplement to the box with worms. Fisherman in open water from a boat, make sure that no water gets into the vessel in which you keep the bait, otherwise all the worms will die, and an unpleasant smell will start to come from their bodies.
In addition to soil selection, ventilation must also be taken in order for organisms to breathe.
Earthworm nursery in the country: how to equip?
Breeding worms-creeps is a laborious process consisting of a number of stages, each of which is mandatory.
An experienced fisherman, for whom fishing is not a hobby, but a way of earning, will need a permanent place where you can collect crawls (worms). How to equip a nursery for breeding raincoats to get a good “harvest” of worms for fishing, read on.
It is most convenient to equip a place for the propagation of raincoats in rural areas. Do it like that.
Having chosen a suitable place - a shaded area or a straw shelter, dig a hole up to 100 cm deep. Fill it with last year's rotted manure to half and sprinkle the earth. Throw worms here for wiring.
Important! In the future, you can throw in the "nursery" food kitchen waste and drain soapy water. This will contribute to faster reproduction of worms.
Cooked dense compost can serve as an excellent breeding ground for earthworms. Carefully caring for it, you can achieve successful breeding of worms even in the winter season. Using compost is a practical option on how to breed creeping worms in an arid environment.
Rules for breeding a worm colony in dry times
To ensure the moisture of the compost mixture even in hot weather, use the following recommendations:
- Choose a place to settle in the shade of a hollow or other deciduous trees.
- Dig a groove up to 30 deep.
- Lay its bottom with a clay layer rising to the edges with an average thickness of 15 cm.
- Take clay better from the shores of the lake.
- After completing the bottom layer, cover it with a soil mixture enriched with humus.
- On top of this layer, a dense ball is laid with materials that in the future will decay and serve as fertile soil for the propagation of worms.
Having prepared a compost pit in the fall, you can collect creeping worms in the spring. As practice shows, the method described above is one of the most effective.
Arrangement of a nursery for the winter
Use simple, effective rules to help you find a comprehensive answer to the question of how to breed earthworms.
Stages of arranging a winter nursery:
- Prepare the container. You can take a wooden box with a volume of 0.5 m 3.
- Pour into the tank: layer 1 - greasy garden earth. Layer 2 - rotted foliage. Layer 3 - greasy garden soil with the addition of boiled grated potatoes or rotted manure. Layer 4 - rotted leaf or manure. Layer 5 - garden land.
- Continue to alternate until the box is completely full.
- The container is covered with moss or a cloth moistened with water and retaining moisture.
- Worms are placed on top, which are drilled in a moss or rag and hidden in the ground.
- The Nursery is periodically watered with water or coffee grounds, maintaining the moisture level. Before watering, remove the rag.
Now you know how to keep creeping worms fresh even in winter. The main thing is to keep the container with the worms in a cool, dark place. For such purposes, the basement is ideal.
Crawling Worm - Fishing Lure
All fishing people know that selecting bait is a time-consuming and not very pleasant process, especially when it comes to worms. The body of these living organisms is covered with special mucus, which complicates the process of cashing in on a fishing hook. Only some fishing enthusiasts know how to simplify this work. You can roll the worms in dust, fine sand, etc., and divide them into pieces of the required length. Do not forget that you need to store the bait in a closed container with pre-made holes for oxygen.
