night crawler bonanza

[Mike Bailey]

Wowee!!! nightcrawlers were out tonight and lookin for romance!!! anyone else go out pickin tonight? i estimate i got about 200 in an hour!!!

[bownero]

Sure beats paying over $2 a dozen for them!! Always nice catching your own bait! Lord knows we invest enough money in tackle and gas!!

[Mike Bailey]

Sure beats paying over $2 a dozen for them!! Always nice catching your own bait! Lord knows we invest enough money in tackle and gas!!

$2 bucks a dozen sucks especially when you're using the nightcrawlers to catch bait. My ex-girlfriend and my mom both used to say "why don't you just use your nightcrawlers for fishing instead of catchin bait?" women.........

[bownero]

I hear that!! Hey! That's a nice pair of flatheads you're holding in your avatar pic.

[Mike Bailey]

I hear that!! Hey! That's a nice pair of flatheads you're holding in your avatar pic.

Hey, thanks. caught them in the Missouri at Plattsmouth a couple years ago. Do you ever fish down on the Republican much? I try to get down there every memorial weekend. I fish at the diversion dam near guide rock, i've got into some good fishing down there, them channel cats get stacked up in the spillway and go on a damn feeding frenzy (alot of times anyway)

[playin4funami]

gotta go pick up some more myself, just checked mine today and lost about 25+ dozen, in coolers in the fridge in the garage, don't really know what happened, they were fine a couple days ago, and had been for a couple months then suddenly all dead?????????

I have fish the diversion dam in the past, not so much now that they fenced so much stuff off, but used to hammer channels with a slipfloat and minnow right along the base of the dam, with an occasional flattie from the carbodys, also used to just drive the canal roads and stop and hit any good looking spots, that pulled a ton of fish too. frogs are great for the bigger fish.

mike where at in nebraska you live now, I forget.

[bownero]

Hey, thanks. caught them in the Missouri at Plattsmouth a couple years ago. Do you ever fish down on the Republican much? I try to get down there every memorial weekend. I fish at the diversion dam near guide rock, i've got into some good fishing down there, them channel cats get stacked up in the spillway and go on a damn feeding frenzy (alot of times anyway)

It's been a long time since I've fished the Republican River. I used to go to the Diversion Dam near Guide Rock alot back in the day. I should plan on going there again sometime. I usually wind up going to Johnson Lake near Lexington and Elwood Res. We have a lakehouse at Johnson Lake and I wind up fishing there alot. Experienced Calamus Res the last 2 years and loving that lake also. Big Channels in there!!

[Satanta]

Been pretty hot out here last few days-would think it would drive them deeper into the ground but when I was a kid I remember seeing them covering the sidewalks in St Louie after a hot night so dunno.

Was thinking after some rain.

Gonna start raising them and mealworms as the cost IS prohibitive to buy.

[Mike Bailey]

gotta go pick up some more myself, just checked mine today and lost about 25+ dozen, in coolers in the fridge in the garage, don't really know what happened, they were fine a couple days ago, and had been for a couple months then suddenly all dead?????????

I have fish the diversion dam in the past, not so much now that they fenced so much stuff off, but used to hammer channels with a slipfloat and minnow right along the base of the dam, with an occasional flattie from the carbodys, also used to just drive the canal roads and stop and hit any good looking spots, that pulled a ton of fish too. frogs are great for the bigger fish.

mike where at in nebraska you live now, I forget.

I live in Murray nebraska, that's 7 miles south of plattsmouth. There used to be a big hole in the republican that run about 40 deep in the river east of the highway that runs north/south through town. there was a bunch of carbodys piled up there that we used to do pretty good in. My dad was from Guide Rock and he said when he lived down there, that there was a 100lb flathead found dead down there in that hole when the river went dry one year back in the '60s.

[Mike Bailey]

Been pretty hot out here last few days-would think it would drive them deeper into the ground but when I was a kid I remember seeing them covering the sidewalks in St Louie after a hot night so dunno.

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Was thinking after some rain.

Gonna start raising them and mealworms as the cost IS prohibitive to buy.

yep it's been hot here too, but it rained the night I put this post up. I've never been lucky enough to catch em off the sidewalks, I usually gotta hunt around for em a little around gardens and such