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« on: July 23, 2012, 08:23:00 PM »
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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Re: scrubs worms
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2012, 08:51:26 PM »
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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Re: scrubs worms
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2012, 08:56:25 PM »
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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Re: scrubs worms
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2012, 09:40:01 PM »
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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Re: scrubs worms
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2012, 10:32:35 PM »
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.

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Re: scrubs worms
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2012, 06:36:41 AM »
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.

 

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