nekkedducker
Ten Pointer
Trees should be getting full now, my uncle brought me about 40 yesterday of big ones. Said his tree covered in them.
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Catalpa worms
- Thread starter nekkedducker
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I've not had any on my trees for about 5 years now. Anyone that's got them, I'd gladly buy some to try to restart mine.
if you are going to reseed them, get the smallest ones you can get off someone's tree. They always seem to stay, seems like the big ones won't. People get them off my trees all the time to seed their trees and we have figured that out.
I try to get the leaves with the egg patches.
Wv67
Ten Pointer
Y’all fish with them , we use em for cats mostly
nekkedducker
Ten Pointer
I love using them for bluegills and shellcracker. You can catch 4 or 5 on the same piece of bait because of the tough skin. They are good for channel cats though. I seen a guy out at the stock ponds on Ft. Bragg out catch everyone else out there 3 to 1 with catalpa worms.
Exploring the back of my new property, I found several young trees with big heart shaped leaves with long thin "bean pods" growing on them. I wasn't sure what they were, but for some reason "catalpa" came to mind as a possibility, though I'd never seen one in person to my knowledge. I just looked up "catalpa" on USDA plants website. YEP! I've got catalpa trees on my property! No worms yet, that I've noticed though.
oldest school
Old Mossy Horns
A great bait for some great times.
Do yall turn them inside out?
Do yall turn them inside out?
nekkedducker
Ten Pointer
I always heard my grandpa talk about turning them, but i think the idea is to get the juice exposed. i break them in half most of the time which exposes the innards anyway. My grandpa also said you had to bite the head off, but i aint doing that either.
lasttombstone
Kinder, Gentler LTS
When you turn them inside out they have a nice, fluffy white texture to them.
specialk
Twelve Pointer
no access to any anymore, but we use to freeze them in cornmeal in zipbags, 12 to a bag....thaw them and cut up in pieces....worked as good as live ones....
oldest school
Old Mossy Horns
we weren't that smart. we just put them in the fridge in a state of "freshness"
they usually got consumed in mass when mama got tired of looking at them after a few days.
which was probably the plan all along.
stilker
Old Mossy Horns
I've not had any on my trees yet they were loaded last year
Yep. Just bite the head off, then push hook into butt end, then pop hook point thru skin ...