You
might wonder
why
any one would want freeze dried night crawlers? Surprisingly there are
some very good reasons to have and fish with freeze dried crawlers.
Don't
worry I am not trying to sell you freeze dried night crawlers. In fact
I hesitated putting this page on the Internet because I don't want to
have orders for them. I used to carry them and my brother
and I even sold them to a string of sporting goods stores but they are
too labor intensive and we got tired of being splattered with worm
guts. By the time we get them made we have to sell them for $12.95 per
dozen.
Even with the high price though people who had used them came back to
the stores wanting more. Why? Before discussing the advantages of
freeze dried night crawlers lets
peek at our feeble and disastrous attempt to mass produce freeze dried
worms, "Lumbricus Terrestris," to be specific.
Once the worms are
freeze dried their skin becomes a sort of cross between leather and
cardboard and they are impossible to put onto a hook so they must be
strung on the hook in advance of freeze drying them. This is very time
consuming as the slimy, wiggling, squiggling, slithering, worms must
first be strung onto a worm threader, fighting all the way, and
then slid off the threader onto the fish hook. As you can imagine it
takes quite a while to thread a dozen night crawlers in this fashion. I
would like to blame my brother, Galen, for the brilliant idea we had
but I am not sure who's brain thought it up. Why don't we
shoot
the
worms onto the hook!
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Lumbricus Terrestris
Freeze dried
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