A Duo of Worm Hunting Novices

Ian is highly anticipating his first walleye fishing excursion this coming Saturday.  In preparation for the trip, he invited me to participate in Gael Glen Farm's first ever earthworm hunting expedition.  No kidding.  I never in a million years thought I would go hunting for worms but here we are.

As soon at it got dark we donned our headlights and we headed out into the backyard for the hunt.  It was tough going on the path to the chicken coop with nary a worm to be found.  We managed to catch our first juicy one after flipping one of the stones used to hold down the plastic sheet greenhouse over my pallet garden.  Flipping all the rest of the rocks yielded only one more worm that sucked itself so quickly back into the ground that we hardly had time to reach for it.

Just when we were about to give up and walk back up to the house, we passed my work-in-progress tea garden.  Low and behold, hanging out on top of the newly spread mulch was a plethora of earthworms!  

Even better is that when they tried to disappear back beneath the dirt, their escape plans were foiled by the layer of cardboard under the mulch.  The unexpected cardboard barrier gave us just enough time to grab a hold of the fattest ones and PULL!

We ended up catching about a dozen of the juiciest earthworms you have ever seen.  Not bad for a duo of worm hunting novices.  

Who would have thought that worm hunting would be so much fun!  Hopefully, this fresh bait will score us some fresh fish on Saturday.  I am in the mood for a good fish fry.