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re: Catawba/Catalpa worms
Posted on 10/21/19 at 9:40 pm to TutHillTiger
Posted on 10/21/19 at 9:40 pm to TutHillTiger
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Man we used to put 4 on those then a live bait on trot lines and kill the catfish
You can catch 3-4 on a single worm. They’re like leather on a hook.
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Posted on 10/21/19 at 9:43 pm to Stexas
Catalpa trees get to looking rough with old age.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 12:15 am to ChenierauTigre
quote:Early summer.
Don't remember what time of year it was.
They're the larval form of a type of sphinx (hawk) moth. Fricking outstanding channel cat bait. We had a lot of rain in Oklahoma this year and the catalpa worms were as thick as I've ever seen.
There's a little spot on a local creek nearby where an old catalpa tree used to hang out above a nice hole in the creek. If you put a catalpa worm on your hook and spent a few hours there, you'd swear you caught so many you fished the place dry. But then you could go back a few days later and catch just as many.
The great ice storm of '08 ripped that old tree to shreds and pulled her in the creek. That spot has been practically empty ever since
Posted on 10/22/19 at 5:33 am to Eli Goldfinger
My grandparents used to have a couple trees that would load up. Pops would lay out bedsheets under the trees and let us youngsters climb the trees to shake them all down onto the sheets. Adults and little kids would pick them off the sheets and put into paper bags with cornmeal to freeze. Could cut the big ones into 3 pieces and catch 3-4 fish on each piece.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 6:54 am to Eli Goldfinger
I always thought we used catalpa worms but after googling them I am wrong. When I was a kid I would fish Lake Verret with my dad. I remember scraping caterpillars off of willow trees. They would get in big clusters. They were black and blue. What were these?
Eastern tents?
Eastern tents?
This post was edited on 10/22/19 at 6:55 am
Posted on 10/22/19 at 6:59 am to Eli Goldfinger
My grandad had trees with worms back when I was a kid and a catfish pond, we had a lot of fun when the catalpa worms came out.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 2:05 pm to The Torch
just an FYI, the trees are super easy to plant.
Just break off a limb about a foot long and stick it into rich dirt, then wait a couple years transplant some worms and you'll be set. At least thats how we got out trees seeded.
Just break off a limb about a foot long and stick it into rich dirt, then wait a couple years transplant some worms and you'll be set. At least thats how we got out trees seeded.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 2:30 pm to dpier16
You can skip a few years and buy the trees.
Wasps and birds did a number on mine if you didn't get them quick. They'd all be gone in a couple days. It was a huge tree that eventually died of old age. I had so many one year I thought about starting a mail order business. Around 2011 ish.
Im looking at planting another. Never heard of transplanting the larvae though. I thought the moths were just naturally attracted to them, lay eggs in the dirt by the tree, and if pesticide nor fireants get them, they hatch and crawl the tree to engorge themselves for a few days before getting eaten or going into cocoon.
Wasps and birds did a number on mine if you didn't get them quick. They'd all be gone in a couple days. It was a huge tree that eventually died of old age. I had so many one year I thought about starting a mail order business. Around 2011 ish.
Im looking at planting another. Never heard of transplanting the larvae though. I thought the moths were just naturally attracted to them, lay eggs in the dirt by the tree, and if pesticide nor fireants get them, they hatch and crawl the tree to engorge themselves for a few days before getting eaten or going into cocoon.
This post was edited on 10/22/19 at 2:32 pm
Posted on 10/22/19 at 8:55 pm to deeprig9
I think you need to seed some worms, because I see trees all the time without a single worm.
Posted on 10/23/19 at 2:11 pm to Loup
I grew up fishing back in Crackerhead off Verret and was always told it was catalpa worms that we were looking for.
The bream would make their nests under the trees where they were most prominent and basically provided them a free meal once they fell into the water
The bream would make their nests under the trees where they were most prominent and basically provided them a free meal once they fell into the water
Posted on 10/24/19 at 8:15 am to Eli Goldfinger
quote:
think you need to seed some worms, because I see trees all the time without a single worm.
I think I read or heard that the trucks spraying for mosquitos killed off most of the worms.
Posted on 10/24/19 at 1:59 pm to saintsfan1977
Where can one but tree plantings and get worms to place on the new trees?
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