Lunkers love nitecrawlers

[ffishman]

Anybody ever read this? Is there anything of value in it? Or is it a bunch of BS?

[Jimmy Jig]

I got the book and I have read it. You better believe its not bunk. If more people, including myself used it more we would caught more big walleyes. I used to do the whole thing, then I got lax and didn't do it correct. Too many "hotter" ideas and newer methods cripped in!

[Sunshine]

It's an awesome book. I highly recommend it.

[Raybob]

After reading about night crawler secrets in fishing news/fishing facts I bought it & it really paid-off, think it was in the late 60s. Between details for large frisky crawlers right out of the fridge, blowing crawlers up w/air & etc. It helped move myself & fishing bud Bob Bailey climb another rung in the ladder long ago in the 60s (even though we blew-up a few crawlers & ate a lil' mud on our 1st attemps :) ~ yeppers we fished for bass then even though I'm a retired plug-puller for eyez now... I don't know if "Lunkers love nitecrawlers" is the same??

[Ziert]

Nothing more realistic and easy. . . from the fishes point of view.

"Grow the BIGGEST and Liveliest Nightcrawlers Ever"

Richard Ziert

You can buy Nightcrawlers if you like, or you can wait till just after the first heavy rains of spring and pick up your own off the ground; for nothing more than several deep knee bends. In either case to grow these worms into their maximum fish catching potential, please follow the recipe below:

Find a large shallow styrofoam container. These containers can be made from the packing material that comes with electronic products and such. You may have to cut the styrofoam to size. What you are after is a container that will be 7-8 deep, and as large as it can be otherwise but no so big that it wont fit into the bottom shelf of your refrigerator. . .it should take up the entire shelf of that refrigerator. . . . a rectangle of maybe 15 X 20 inches or more. You are better off having a second - garage - fridge for this purpose. . .wives somehow just don't like us to use the fridge in the kitchen for this type of thing. I know you'll have to maybe move some of that beer out of that fridge in the garage, but sacrifices have to be made.

Into the styrofoam container place enough Buss Bedding to bring the top edge to within an inch or so of the rim. You have to water this bedding down some but sparingly. Here's a tip - use only bottled water (No chlorine) and make yourself a big ol pot of "regular", caffeine included, coffee (I use Columbian). Pour yourself a cup and enjoy. While you are doing this pour the remaining coffee in the pot into a gallon container. Then fill the Gallon container all the way to the top with more bottled water. You want caffeine in the water but not too much.

Add just enough water/coffee mix to the Buss Bedding so as to make the bedding barely moist. Insert 100 worms. mix the worms so that not all of them are on the top. At the same well equipped tackle shop where you found the Buss Bedding, you should also be able to locate a product called "Magic Worm Food". This product is put out by an outfit called "magic Products Inc. out of Amhurst Junction Wisconsin 54407. Sorry, there's no Web Page listed on the container.

On top of the worm and bedding mixture place 4 to five lines (trails) of the worm food, the full length of the container. Don't mix the worm food in; just let it sit there on top.

Fold a section (several layers) of newspaper so it will fit the inside parameters of your worm container. Put the newspaper in the box on top of the bedding. Sprinkle the top of the newspaper with you coffee - water enough to soak the paper through, but not run through and drip into the bedding.

Find one or more semi-heavy reading books that nobody reads anymore. Place these books on top of the newspaper. The idea here (that works) is to have pressure applied by the books on top of the worms, to make the worms work harder to get at the food. . . it's a form of building the worms muscles.

Place the whole container in the refrigerator on the bottom shelf for a minimum of one week. . .longer is better. Check every third day or so to see if you need to add more worm food.

In no time at all, you will have the biggest, most liveliest Nightcrawlers you have ever seen. If you keep this worm farm going long enough you will have enough crawlers to last you all season, and they will multiply on you. . . .don't let the kids know that this project is going on. . .they will be in there fooling with it and mess things up.

There you have it. Happy worms/trails to you, until we meet again.

[Hawk Eye]

The Lunkers Love Nightcrawlers and Fishing Facts really got me into fishing. Buck Perry's book on spoonplugs was great too, and he is to be credited as one of the early fishing giants. To this day, my biggest bass (6.5 lbs) and biggest pike (17 lbs) came on his spoonplug lure. My biggest walleye until I started fishing Erie came on an inflated crawler. The early issues of Fishing Facts, when George Pazik was the publisher, were terrific and I still re-read them on occasion.

[hnd]

its a great book. ii really enjoyed it and its done alot for just my over knowledge of fishing.

[ffishman]

Looks like I am going to have to pick up a copy. Thanks for the insight.

[T Mac]

The Lunkers Love Nightcrawlers and Fishing Facts really got me into fishing. Buck Perry's book on spoonplugs was great too, and he is to be credited as one of the early fishing giants. To this day, my biggest bass (6.5 lbs) and biggest pike (17 lbs) came on his spoonplug lure. My biggest walleye until I started fishing Erie came on an inflated crawler. The early issues of Fishing Facts, when George Pazik was the publisher, were terrific and I still re-read them on occasion.



It was kind of the first serious fishing publication.
I remember it well.
;)

[no1son]

That book and Buck Perry's book on Spoonplugging, which Fishing Facts pushed just about as hard, both are pretty much the basis for modern structure fishing with a systematic approach to eliminating unproductive water, IMO.

[Mike Kansas]

Haven't read the book but I will tell you that I have caught more Walleye in Canada the last three years on Crawlers than I have on Minnows. I simply put an entire crawler on a jig and use a standard jig presentation. I have been doing this on Lac Seul and have had my best results in early June fishing post spawn fish that are in transisition to main lake. I have also tried this in early July during the last three years but Minnows seem to have done better at that point. Crawlers work better for me in July on Lindy Rigs or Bottom Bouncers.

I hardly ever use any other presentation other than Jigging or dragging cranks in June.

Also have done well with crawlers on Lac Seul for Smallies. The rig I use is a 1/4 oz egg sinker and a Floating Jig with a Crawler. I place a stop about 18" above the sinker so I can let the jig float up that high and it also allows me to work the jig and fish it slow. It really works on some nice Smallies and the Lac Seul Smallie population is growing leaps and bounds with good quality fish avaliable (15" to 20" are common). Have caught Eyes doing this too.

Crankbaits also do well in June on the Smallies and once i catch a few in one spot throwing cranks I will go to the Floating Jig presentation which allows good coverage of that specific area.

Good Luck, Mike Kansas

[Great Dane]

Is it still possible to find copies of Lunkers Love Nitecrawlers?

[ffishman]

I just saw one on ebay for 14.00 bucks.