making red wigglers bigger and fater

I learned from Hugh Carter who lived in Georgia and if want giant red wigglers for sale for bait, You must do this. This not an organic way so you must not mix these worms in your worm bed or their castings. Go to your city's sewer plant and get the dried or semi driy sludge. Put it into a seperate container ,,cool it off and mix a little bedding with it and put your worms in to it . This will sterilze the worms so don't put any left overs back into your beds.

hey gunny, interesting posting. When my kids were younger we used red wigglers for sun fish bait. Red wigglers are soft and don't last long on a hook but fishing for sun fish they worked fine. I vermicompost out doors with cow manure and horse manure along with bedding and these red wigglers get fairly large as well, but here in Montana they don't seem to work on trout. We do have lots of walleye and generous limit limitations, but I haven't tried tipping my lures with red wigglers, but they do work for yellow ringed perch if you can find any of size. Montana quit stocking trout in our reservoirs several years ago and walleye are active predators and have been diminishing the numbers of trout and their cousin the ringed perch. Wife and I are going to try walleye fishing this year instead of trout fishing so I made up several hundred jigs this week for that purpose. Could try tipping these with red wigglers to see if that helps.

I have been looking for a way to toughen up these red wigglers, but haven't found anything that works. Tried wet sand but they didn't survive that test.

After seeding my garden with various types of worms I now have several types of night crawlers appearing which may be used for trout and walleye fishing. It takes several year for these worms to establish themselves but with all our rains lately I have seen a few wandering around the garden. I would prefer to purchase them from our local bait dealer though. Sort of like asparagus, give them a couple more years and I won't have to buy bait any longer.