View Single Post
  #72  
Old December 28th, 2007, 04:21 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
BJ Conner
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 420
Default Catawba Worm farms could be the next big thing

On Dec 27, 3:52*pm, millard63 wrote:
On Dec 27, 3:19*am, Mike wrote:





On Dec 27, 5:57 am, millard63 wrote:


guess you have a viable point, just thought I might provoke interest.
If it werent for people like me, I guess the world would be very
boring, because people wouldnt have anything to complain about


Far as Fly fishing I have never had the opportunity to go fly fishing,
though would consider it.


Fishing is fishing, regardless of what you use. Fly-fishing however,
has long been considered by many to be a clean ( no bait required!)
and sporting method of angling.


If you want to learn some basics, then have have a look here for
instance;


http://www.associatedinternet.com/flyfishing101/


MC


very helpful information on fly fishing. *I just wonder if a Trout
would bite a Catawba Worm.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


Veer doubtful sense their natural ranges overlap very little.
Have you ever caught any kind of fish on a caltapa worm? Do you
really know anything about them?
A lot of serious fishermen that fish Caltapa worms have little screen
cages they keep them in. I use to help my first shirt gather worms. It
took a ladder and some serious tree climbing to get the dam things. We
were picking worm off of one tree when the post Sargent Major told us
those trees were the property of the Post CG. It didn't matter we got
plenty of them elsewhere.
After they were picked we kept them in a refridgerator to slow down
their developement into moth. I got to go out every day and pick
fresh leaves for them as that was the only thing they would eat. The
whole season lasted a month at best.
I use to go fishing with him and he showed me the whole technique to
Cataba worms (In Alabama they had at least a half dozen name for the
slimy *******s ). The worms are turned inside out and put on a hook
the slimy inside is outside- they kind of looked like a used rubber.
Theya re very tough and the Brim and Shellcracker really went for
them Catching 3 or 4 fish on one worm was the par.
He also taught me to find Brim-bed by smell. You drive around the
lake and he could smell them. The smell was a mix of fish and water
weeds. I think I could still recognize it after 40 years.
I don't think you could domesticat those worms. It's one of the things
you gotta take when it comes.