limey wrote:


> However, we've also caught our share of catfish in a large pond/lake
> where I used to work. My husband and sons would go outside at night,
> drive some electrical something into the ground, then wait for all the
> worms to come up in panic. Off we'd go the next morning. We caught
> quite a lot of catfish but my kids and thought they were so
> repulsive-looking that we wouldn't eat them and we'd give them to other
> fishermen, to their delight.

We used to stomp a pitchfork into the ground nice and deep, and then
"twang" the handle. The vibration apparently made the nightcrawlers come
up to see what was going on.


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