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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: bjm on July 23, 2012, 08:23:00 PM
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G'day all,
I was wondering where would be the best place to go buy some scrub worms. Bunnings or tackle shop?? As i want to breed some up for when bass season opens. Also would just normal compost heap do to breed them???
Cheers Brad.
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What do you mean scrub worms?
Most worms you buy are African night crawlers, about as useful for bait as shoe laces.
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Talking about scrub worms, I guess you're from Victoria. I've never heard of Antonella breeding their own successfully. Best place I ever found for them was we're the black range road crosses the King River at Edi.
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Not from Victoria however the idea of scrub worms came for "Freshwater Fishing" magazine. Which is based in Victoria. So you were close.
From what i gathered on the net, A Scrub worm is a fatter and bigger version of a garden worm. Its also has a tougher skin than the garden worm and be fished as a solitary bait. Instead of bunched like on garden worms.
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We used to chase them in the leaf litter & humus at the bottom of big granite rocks around Stanthorpe. Some of those worms were as round as your little finger & a foot long. Good worming rocks were well kept secrets. A chainsaw left running on the rock would bring them too the surface apparently.
Have a good dig in your garden mate, a good earthworm will be better than the bought variety.
Cheers Andrew
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Andrew nailed it. Scrubbies are big suckers. If you know someone with a dairy farm, the area where they sluce out the dairy will be a good place to dig for some worms.