If you need worms for bait, the easiest way to get them (other than from a pile of compost) is to drive a wood stake into the damp ground to a depth of about 12 inches then take a wood board and rub it across the top of the stake back and forth (to make it vibrate) for about 3 to 5 minutes. Worms will come to the surface of the ground in large numbers. Pick 'em up and put 'em in a can. Go fishin'.
Phyl It’s called gruntin’ worms down here. It’s the best way I know of to catch worms, and the way professional worm harvesters do it. I cut notches in the stake and then run a stick up and down it to create vibration. It mimics the sound of a mole (their predators) digging, and the worms get out of the ground as fast as they can to get away!
My Grandmother showed me that trick, Blowed my mind, Heavy oak tree leaves knock the leaves away, until wet, worms everywhere, good luck fishing people.
Pretty happy I came across this video. Pretty informative. The way you fell and just looked at the camera was hilarious, hopefully you didn't hurt yourself.
This is how the black walnut Hull is used to get rid of parasites in our bodies! It’s freaky to see how fast it works! Imagine that in your body! Yuck!
Another great video Bill. This one I'll have to remember. It also brings back great childhood memories. My neighbor would do laundry with an old wringer washer on the carport. When finished they would let the dirty and soapy water drain into the grass. The red worms would come up by the dozens. We would grab as many as we could and head to the pond.
If you have a favorite fishing spot or have a place at home - use coffee grounds. Make a mound and the worms love coffee. They move there and make the ground rich and and as you keep adding coffee grounds more and more. You can reach in or do as the men did as they taught me as a young teen - use electric current to drive them out. 12v is enough but they used 120AC. stuck in the probes being a foot or more apart in the coffee - and plug it in. Unplug and pick out worms for fishing. The grounds they had were there for decades as it was maybe 4' tall and twice as tall. Lots of families and men but that is plenty. They dumped them out a window from the kitchen. Mountain cabin it was.
Everyone should look up black walnut husk uses for the body as well! It’s amazing what it can do! Thank you for sharing this tip! I would’ve never known this if I hadn’t come across your video while researching how to harvest and dry black walnut husks! Many blessings to you and your family!
Having 5 walnuts nearby and living near a river swamp, I heard old timers talk about depression era subsistence "fishing" with the pulp but never bringing up the bait. Great TIP many thanks from the Flint river corridor..
Great video Billy, but I'm not sure if it is the walnut-sap that forces the worms to get out of the dirt. We do it with pure water. We call the worms "rainworms" in Germany, because worms always come out of the dirt when it rains. This is because they would simply drown in the soaked earth. Maybe you'll try it with pure water too, I'm kinda sure it will work out the same great way. Cheers, Marc
I have a mature walnut tree within 25ft of my garden. Squirrels buried nuts since I’ve lived here in my garden! Never had any problems growing there. Guests even say how great my garden looks
@@rodolfoplasencia9739 the walnut produces a toxin that will negatively impact plant growth for a decent sized perimeter, we try to stay 50' away from walnuts when planting.
Billy Joe I love to learn old Indian tricks from the North. That is a good one. We have walnut trees here in Southern Ontario. The Native People sure know how to live. Awesome.
i love the use of discarded trash items to perform this task . neat trick . back in ohio i used to give the lawn a spraying with just water , right at dusk . then just after it gets full dark , take a flashlight and go worm pickin . HUGE night crawlers abound !
What we always did was water your grass 30 minutes before sundown and I mean pitch black when I say sundown. Water it really good and soak it. When it’s dark 30 minutes to a hour later go out with a flash light and hold the light parallel to the ground because if you shine them they will go back down. You basically force them to come out because it’s drowning them and they like the dark because birds and such arnt out at night. In 2 hours you can get up to 300 worms so just do it Friday night and you’ll have no problem collecting what you need for the week end. Has to be where worms are though so don’t expect that your lawn that is just sand to produce big fat worms.
Yep... that's the way. I am an old man now but in my younger days I have fished a many of times using walnut husks. I am a 5th generation Ozark mountain man. I grew up in the roughest part of the Ozark Mountains. We fished,hunted, and trapped... had a 2 acre garden 3 orchards and 25-30 hives of bees. Raised live stock butchered and cured the meat. Never wasted anything... canned and dried the vegetables. We fished to eat... just taking enough to get by none extra. We would get a toe sack or grass sack fill it about half full of green walnuts smash them with a hammer or club then tie the sack with a short length of rope or binder twine. Walk out in a slow moving water hole and drop the sack in and keep hold of the line and go back on shore... a few minutes later the fish would float to the top. Then pull the line in with the sack of walnuts open it up dump out the walnuts some place on shore then wade out in the water and rake the fish in the sack tie the sack an take them to shore. Then we would go back out in the water and stir it up and out into the main creek to dilute the walnut effect. It a very few minutes the water was clean and back to normal.
Great survival tip ! I'd read of this many years ago, and also of using certain types of ash to decapacitate the fish . The legality means nothing when you're doing it to survive till rescued or such. Thanks again for the demo... incidently, I've only seen walnut trees in my state, Arizona, a few times, so this is probably not one I'll ever use, but nice to have in the trick bag
Since a child here in the U.K I have always use soapy water, it doesn't harm the plants. Late at night is good, just use an old detergent bottle mix a little detergent in the bottom gently with water, fill it water, gently roll it to mix it and squirt it on a lawn,or grassy area. Rinse the worms in rainwater put them in a container of damp moss to keep them till needed.
Rabbit pea (Tephrosia virginiana) can also be used. It has an advantage in that both the leaves and the roots can be used, and because both are available throughout the growing season, unlike green walnut husks. The active ingredient in rabbit pea is rotenone. Rotenone will stun fish in addition to worms. If you have a pond that needs to be restocked, you can use it to kill all the fish that you have in the pond first.
Great idea Bill although I have never seen a walnut husk before! I did laugh at the thought of you sitting there with the husk to bop the worms on the head!! Happy fishing. Cheers Mary
MANNNN! I wish I lived close by you! I want some black walnuts to plant and grow in my yard for eating. I sure do miss my Grandmama's big old black walnut tree.😢
Excellent video Billy Joe. Love your humor. Very informative. I didn't know you could uses the husks they way you did. Now I wish we had walnut trees in east Texas.. Take care, my friend. Ken
KennethKramm hey ken i may have to do a controlled test with soapy water too,and maybe in my back yard were the big ones are..lol. take care ken .. ..bill
billy joe denny Go for it Billy Joe. I'd like to see the results. One of my favorite camping areas has many earthworms (and a small lake full of fish). I need an easy way to catch the worms. If I get enough worms, they would make a tasty meal. To eat earthworms, the recommendation is to feed them paper for a few days, so the sand passes their their digestive system. Then they can be fried and eaten with no problem. Don't eat them raw.... diseases...
No kidding, live on the outer edges of the city and it's not uncommon to happen upon places along the highway littered with spent casings and random garbage used as targets. We have three gun ranges in the area but these yokels insist on littering. One property owner put up a sign because he was tired of all the crap getting left in his field.
Sadly it happens here in the UK too. This year, after twenty years of wild camping holidays in my van with my kids on Dartmoor, the forest trust have started exercising their powers to move us campers off moor. It's a shame as it's a direct result of last year's surge in visitors and the unbelievable amount of rubbish they left behind. We never leave a trace...and it upsets me that others come to a beautiful place and decide that the stuff they brought with them is easier to leave there rather than taking them home or using a rubbish bin/ trash can. It's a real shame...
thanks man, liked the music too, quite meditative. Never woulda figured that would work so well, had to think about it for a bit, but have no trees where I am. Especially not Walnut. was very surprised about fishing with the walnut irritant, thanks for sharing.
Good video Bill. I never knew this. It would be nice to see another video where you first pour clean water on the area and wait say 10 or 15 minutes, and see what comes out of the ground, if anything. Then in the same place pour your walnut water onto the ground and see if the walnut water will drive out of the ground what the plain water wouldn't.
I do the same thing with the immature walnuts that fall off the tree but I use it as a beautiful natural dye after boiling. Makes a lovely warm brown & is awesome with wool.
Cool video. I'm not sure about the husks not being poisonous to humans though. I can tell you from personal experience you better wash your hands good after handling them and be careful not to touch your eyes. Put me in the hospital when I was a kid. Exquisitely painful.
Great video about how to catch worms! But I do have to say that the music is very irritating because it is hard to hear some of the things that you are saying. But thank you for the information.
Great trick really. For a moment there i remembered running barefoot thru the woods goin down to the crik, catching minnows, crawdads, and what have you to then catch bluegill, bullheads, turtles or whatever would bite our hooks. This would've been one more fun way to catch bait.
Thanks for the info. Good to know about the fish, too. In a survival situation, it would be a good way to stay alive. If you get in trouble, that means someone found you, so problem solved if you are stranded.
Used to use mustard powder to get my night crawlers during the day {we don't have walnut trees in my area}. One small tin of mustard powder to five gallons of water will make them come right up! Don't forget to rinse them in clean water, otherwise they wont last.
Cool, I've never seen that done before. The sound comes thru just fine on my pc but then I have a small pair of external speakers. Now where can I find some green walnuts????
Thanks for letting us know this trick. I have a black walnut tree and I will try this. Also, I felt sorry for you when you triped and fell down. It broke my heart.
I'd like to know more about that!! We don't have many if any walnut trees here in Florida But did you say you can do it with fish?? That's wild! Do you know why it works??
That's really neat. I've never seen that trick. And I grew up fishing with worms in an area where a lot of walnuts grow. I used to get all my night crawlers by walking the fields at night with a flashlight. Or digging them out of my grandma's flower boxes... Wish I would have known this trick...
Interesting: I maintain a roughly 100 sq. ft. area where we dump hickory leaves and nuts, which also contain Juglone, and there are lots of worms there - in fact I use it as a worm bed. Maybe they acquire tolerance to the Juglone? Or maybe it breaks down as the organic matter basically composts? Earthworms will actually tunnel into the decaying husks...
Great info! We are getting chickens this week and this will be a great way to get them healthy grub! One request - the music is beautiful, but it makes it very hard to understand what you are saying! It's like trying to talk to someone at a dance. Any chance you could turn it down or just play it at the beginning/end of your video? Thanks! (I've subscribed to you and can't wait to go through the rest of your stuff!)
Juglone, the chemical found in walnut green husks, roots of walnut trees, and the leaves will kill or stunt the growth of many plants such as tomatoes. Before planting ANYTHING near walnut tree(s), do some research to see if what you're planting is juglone-sensitive. Other than that, walnut trees are the quintessential American hardwood tree.
Juggaloes, comprised mostly of young white men from working-class backgrounds, tend to feel misunderstood, either for being overweight, looking weird, being poor, or simply being fans of the group "Insane Clown Posse".
+TAC1ONE ... with the southern drawl ... slow talk ... lazy annunciation ... and background music ... and with old ears ... many of your words ... did not compute. GOD Bless you though for your efforts.
billy joe denny I knew it. What an odd chance of stumbling across this vid from a guy down the road a piece from where I grew up. The first thing I recognized was the bridge, and then the banks of the creek, then the part where you walked under the bridge. I got my first TWRA check for fishing license there when I was 16 (geeze 20 years ago) I was legal. Checked out your other videos and you have some quality vids man! I take my family to Big South Fork as often as I can it's definitely my favorite place to go unwind. Awesome vids fella! take care!
Thanks for the video , I think if I was starving I'd just put the walnut husks into the river or lake. Hope you never hurt your self when you slipped over. I see so many videos with lone fisherman. Am I the only one to use a life jacket. I just watched this video and the man who made it slipped on the wet bank. Take care all
There might be other plants, none that I know of. But there are many manuals that point out primitive fishing including a few U.S army survival manual. Which mentions poisoning fish, like he said, in slow movie currents.
Wash off the oils before it is time to react. you can pick poison ivy with your hands go inside and wash your hands with dish soap and not get affected by it
What an awesome video Bill, I never knew about catching the worms like this but I am going to try it for sure!!! and well the other idea is good to know if your in a survival citation so Thank you! Blessings and Take Care
keith neal -Do you just pour boiling water on whole mullbery leaves and let the liquid cool off add more water to dilute and then spray or pour it on the soil?Some advice would be appreciated.Thanks.
I'm a window washer... at the end of the day I dump my bucket of a few gallons of soapy water (Palm Olive is what I use) onto my lawn... and that's a good way to get worms to pop up out of the ground... as well as all the other critters that are underground like crickets, spiders, caterpillars, etc. Works best when the ground is already moist like after a rain. Would probably have even better luck if I had logs to roll over and check under... just aren't any in my yard. Sure, this tactic isn't all that natural or bushcrafty ... but it works.
The ground in most of the county where I live is clay. And big-fat night crawlers love clay. After a light rain if I walk on the grass barefoot it is almost gross as there are thousands of night crawlers in the grass and they feel slimy when walking on them. This seems like a lot of work to catch skinny worms. If they are not easy to find at night then I can see where this would be good to know.
The best way to catch works is in spring thru fall in Kansas even in the city. After a rain Kansas has millions laying on top of the ground after a rain. Green worms on sand Banks with a mixture of dark soil. Best fishing worms I ever used was a stink green work very small in size .
If you need worms for bait, the easiest way to get them (other than from a pile of compost) is to drive a wood stake into the damp ground to a depth of about 12 inches then take a wood board and rub it across the top of the stake back and forth (to make it vibrate) for about 3 to 5 minutes. Worms will come to the surface of the ground in large numbers. Pick 'em up and put 'em in a can. Go fishin'.
You can also cut a sapling about a foot from the ground and do the same.
Phyl It’s called gruntin’ worms down here. It’s the best way I know of to catch worms, and the way professional worm harvesters do it.
I cut notches in the stake and then run a stick up and down it to create vibration. It mimics the sound of a mole (their predators) digging, and the worms get out of the ground as fast as they can to get away!
Fiddling the old timers called it. The worms they called fiddler worms.
My Grandmother showed me that trick, Blowed my mind, Heavy oak tree leaves knock the leaves away, until wet, worms everywhere, good luck fishing people.
Im going to try that thanks
I'm 74 and forgot about this trick, my grandfather showed me this when i was 10 yrs old..Just found yr channel and plugged in to it .. Thanks
Pretty happy I came across this video. Pretty informative. The way you fell and just looked at the camera was hilarious, hopefully you didn't hurt yourself.
@@chrisyarborough7185 😂😂😂😂
This is how the black walnut Hull is used to get rid of parasites in our bodies! It’s freaky to see how fast it works! Imagine that in your body! Yuck!
Another great video Bill. This one I'll have to remember. It also brings back great childhood memories. My neighbor would do laundry with an old wringer washer on the carport. When finished they would let the dirty and soapy water drain into the grass. The red worms would come up by the dozens. We would grab as many as we could and head to the pond.
BluegrassBushcraft i remember the ringers,,I'm going to have to try a controlled soapy water test..
take care Robert.
..bill
Only a real man doesn't delete his tripping! Enjoyed the walnut trick.
thank you
billy joe
If you have a favorite fishing spot or have a place at home - use coffee grounds. Make a mound and the worms love coffee. They move there and make the ground rich and and as you keep adding coffee grounds more and more. You can reach in or do as the men did as they taught me as a young teen - use electric current to drive them out. 12v is enough but they used 120AC. stuck in the probes being a foot or more apart in the coffee - and plug it in. Unplug and pick out worms for fishing. The grounds they had were there for decades as it was maybe 4' tall and twice as tall. Lots of families and men but that is plenty. They dumped them out a window from the kitchen. Mountain cabin it was.
Everyone should look up black walnut husk uses for the body as well! It’s amazing what it can do!
Thank you for sharing this tip! I would’ve never known this if I hadn’t come across your video while researching how to harvest and dry black walnut husks!
Many blessings to you and your family!
Wow! Much appreciated. Never even heard anyone mentioning that trick. Kudos to you.
thank you for teaching us all this, you are a good careing teacher, liked it a lot keep up the good work.
Your humility is so refreshing.
Nice to learn something every day. This was my lesson of the day. Thanks for sharing. I would never had known this.
That was very interesting and I enjoyed it, you being soft spoken, I did miss a good bit of what you were saying because of the music
Having 5 walnuts nearby and living near a river swamp, I heard old timers talk about depression era subsistence "fishing" with the pulp but never bringing up the bait. Great TIP many thanks from the Flint river corridor..
Great video Billy, but I'm not sure if it is the walnut-sap that forces the worms to get out of the dirt. We do it with pure water. We call the worms "rainworms" in Germany, because worms always come out of the dirt when it rains. This is because they would simply drown in the soaked earth. Maybe you'll try it with pure water too, I'm kinda sure it will work out the same great way. Cheers, Marc
Scouting Free you got me wondering now if it may have been just the water,,ill have to try a controlled experiment ..
take care marc.
..bill
I have a mature walnut tree within 25ft of my garden. Squirrels buried nuts since I’ve lived here in my garden! Never had any problems growing there. Guests even say how great my garden looks
Me too, 25 feet is enough space away from the tree. You can see the area affected directly under the tree. Poison ivy doesn’t seem to mind.
@@vanessarefrane1389 & FatherSon 604 what does the 25' factor is used for?
@@rodolfoplasencia9739 the walnut produces a toxin that will negatively impact plant growth for a decent sized perimeter, we try to stay 50' away from walnuts when planting.
Billy Joe I love to learn old Indian tricks from the North. That is a good one. We have walnut trees here in Southern Ontario. The Native People sure know how to live.
Awesome.
I had to pause when you slipped. Priceless.
I can’t hear you because of your music. It’s difficult. Thanks 🇨🇦👍
I've got walnut trees and worm rich ground. Cant wait to try this!
Post a video of you trying it'
i love the use of discarded trash items to perform this task . neat trick .
back in ohio i used to give the lawn a spraying with just water , right at dusk . then just after it gets full dark , take a flashlight and go worm pickin . HUGE night crawlers abound !
Pappy someone else already said that
Nice! I know of 2 other plants used for "stunning" fish but never knew about walnut husk. Always like learning something new......thanks brother!
RiverBendSurvival thanks darby, learning together bro..
..bill
Slippery is it...?
billy joe you are a kind man.
Thank You and Good Luck
thank you.
..bill
great video, but the music was a little too loud and really uneaded, id prefer just hearing nature :) other then that well done! thank you
Corbonzo
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Your video taught me something new , Will have to give it a try . Black walnuts grow in my area .
@@GlitchesintheMatrix1954 but hillbilly Russell Crowe will not be out there to teach us about walnuts
You didn’t need the music then lol
Thank you. Funny how when we fall the first thing we do is look to see if anyone was watching. We were! Great video.
Thanks for sharing my friend, going to try this tomorrow with my wife and son!
That was the most enchanting video I have watched in a long, long time. Thank you. That's all it took for me to 'like' and 'subscribe'!!!
What we always did was water your grass 30 minutes before sundown and I mean pitch black when I say sundown. Water it really good and soak it. When it’s dark 30 minutes to a hour later go out with a flash light and hold the light parallel to the ground because if you shine them they will go back down. You basically force them to come out because it’s drowning them and they like the dark because birds and such arnt out at night. In 2 hours you can get up to 300 worms so just do it Friday night and you’ll have no problem collecting what you need for the week end. Has to be where worms are though so don’t expect that your lawn that is just sand to produce big fat worms.
Yep... that's the way. I am an old man now but in my younger days I have fished a many of times using walnut husks. I am a 5th generation Ozark mountain man. I grew up in the roughest part of the Ozark Mountains. We fished,hunted, and trapped... had a 2 acre garden 3 orchards and 25-30 hives of bees. Raised live stock butchered and cured the meat. Never wasted anything... canned and dried the vegetables.
We fished to eat... just taking enough to get by none extra. We would get a toe sack or grass sack fill it about half full of green walnuts smash them with a hammer or club then tie the sack with a short length of rope or binder twine. Walk out in a slow moving water hole and drop the sack in and keep hold of the line and go back on shore... a few minutes later the fish would float to the top. Then pull the line in with the sack of walnuts open it up dump out the walnuts some place on shore then wade out in the water and rake the fish in the sack tie the sack an take them to shore. Then we would go back out in the water and stir it up and out into the main creek to dilute the walnut effect. It a very few minutes the water was clean and back to normal.
Will you should do videos on your field knowledge A dying art ! I certainly would subscribe
Will Alexander
Yeah Star a yt account I'm in
I'm from Ozarks myself it's gods country and still not a lot of people
What species of fish would it work on? Would it be effective in a river for salmon
Great survival tip ! I'd read of this many years ago, and also of using certain types of ash to decapacitate the fish . The legality means nothing when you're doing it to survive till rescued or such. Thanks again for the demo... incidently, I've only seen walnut trees in my state, Arizona, a few times, so this is probably not one I'll ever use, but nice to have in the trick bag
When I was a kid, about a thousand years ago, we used mustard powder in warm water.
Exactly right, it works very well here in Kansas.
Since a child here in the U.K I have always use soapy water, it doesn't harm the plants. Late at night is good, just use an old detergent bottle mix a little detergent in the bottom gently with water, fill it water, gently roll it to mix it and squirt it on a lawn,or grassy area. Rinse the worms in rainwater put them in a container of damp moss to keep them till needed.
Rabbit pea (Tephrosia virginiana) can also be used. It has an advantage in that both the leaves and the roots can be used, and because both are available throughout the growing season, unlike green walnut husks.
The active ingredient in rabbit pea is rotenone. Rotenone will stun fish in addition to worms. If you have a pond that needs to be restocked, you can use it to kill all the fish that you have in the pond first.
Great idea Bill although I have never seen a walnut husk before! I did laugh at the thought of you sitting there with the husk to bop the worms on the head!! Happy fishing. Cheers Mary
Mary McN some how humor seems to show up ,,thanks mary.
..bill
What do you call the thick green exterior of a growing walnut that later falls off
MANNNN! I wish I lived close by you! I want some black walnuts to plant and grow in my yard for eating. I sure do miss my Grandmama's big old black walnut tree.😢
Ive herd of the hull fishing but u ding them for worms was new to me. Thanks for showing how. John.
OKBushcraft thanks john , fun learning new things..
..bill
Could not hear what you said over the music????
Excellent video Billy Joe. Love your humor. Very informative. I didn't know you could uses the husks they way you did. Now I wish we had walnut trees in east Texas.. Take care, my friend. Ken
KennethKramm hey ken i may have to do a controlled test with soapy water too,and maybe in my back yard were the big ones are..lol.
take care ken ..
..bill
billy joe denny Go for it Billy Joe. I'd like to see the results. One of my favorite camping areas has many earthworms (and a small lake full of fish). I need an easy way to catch the worms. If I get enough worms, they would make a tasty meal. To eat earthworms, the recommendation is to feed them paper for a few days, so the sand passes their their digestive system. Then they can be fried and eaten with no problem. Don't eat them raw.... diseases...
billy joe denny does it have to be green walnut husk? can you use ripe walnuts husk?
KennethKramm dish liquid and water works too, just make it kinda strong for best results
People that trash places ruin it for everyone.Then they wonder why no one lets people on their land to fish and have a relaxing day.
No kidding, live on the outer edges of the city and it's not uncommon to happen upon places along the highway littered with spent casings and random garbage used as targets. We have three gun ranges in the area but these yokels insist on littering. One property owner put up a sign because he was tired of all the crap getting left in his field.
Sadly it happens here in the UK too. This year, after twenty years of wild camping holidays in my van with my kids on Dartmoor, the forest trust have started exercising their powers to move us campers off moor. It's a shame as it's a direct result of last year's surge in visitors and the unbelievable amount of rubbish they left behind. We never leave a trace...and it upsets me that others come to a beautiful place and decide that the stuff they brought with them is easier to leave there rather than taking them home or using a rubbish bin/ trash can. It's a real shame...
thanks man, liked the music too, quite meditative. Never woulda figured that would work so well, had to think about it for a bit, but have no trees where I am. Especially not Walnut. was very surprised about fishing with the walnut irritant, thanks for sharing.
buddy that was an awesome trick never seen it done before but will definitely give a try next time I go fishing thanks for the information and video
I love that muddy water. Perfect for catfishing. Thanks for the tip.
pulled some big cats out , back in the day.. thank you for committing ..
bill
Would this work with any other husks... such as horse chestnut husks?
Good video Bill. I never knew this. It would be nice to see another video where you first pour clean water on the area and wait say 10 or 15 minutes, and see what comes out of the ground, if anything. Then in the same place pour your walnut water onto the ground and see if the walnut water will drive out of the ground what the plain water wouldn't.
wjf213 great idea , ill see if i can do a controlled batch with water first ..
thanks .
..bill
I do the same thing with the immature walnuts that fall off the tree but I use it as a beautiful natural dye after boiling. Makes a lovely warm brown & is awesome with wool.
Walnut stain, extracted from the green walnut peel is used by the
furniture makers to dye their wood.
That’s really cool! What part of the world are you from mr I’m in Nebraska
Cool video. I'm not sure about the husks not being poisonous to humans though. I can tell you from personal experience you better wash your hands good after handling them and be careful not to touch your eyes. Put me in the hospital when I was a kid. Exquisitely painful.
thanks for the info, i will be careful now when i handle them..
Great video about how to catch worms! But I do have to say that the music is very irritating because it is hard to hear some of the things that you are saying. But thank you for the information.
Great trick really. For a moment there i remembered running barefoot thru the woods goin down to the crik, catching minnows, crawdads, and what have you to then catch bluegill, bullheads, turtles or whatever would bite our hooks. This would've been one more fun way to catch bait.
Walnut husks should be in a survivor bug out bag. Look for those small out of the way pools in a steam to catch fish.
You can do the same thing with dawn dish liquid and water.
Thanks for the info. Good to know about the fish, too. In a survival situation, it would be a good way to stay alive. If you get in trouble, that means someone found you, so problem solved if you are stranded.
Used to use mustard powder to get my night crawlers during the day {we don't have walnut trees in my area}.
One small tin of mustard powder to five gallons of water will make them come right up! Don't forget to rinse them in clean water, otherwise they wont last.
Cool, I've never seen that done before. The sound comes thru just fine on my pc but then I have a small pair of external speakers. Now where can I find some green walnuts????
Good info brother, thanks for sharing your valuable insight.
I love the way green walnuts smell. You can cure ring worm with the juice.
Thanks for letting us know this trick. I have a black walnut tree and I will try this. Also, I felt sorry for you when you triped and fell down. It broke my heart.
Awesome job. Didn't know nobody else knew about that. I learned it from an old Choctaw man, years ago! :)
I'd like to know more about that!! We don't have many if any walnut trees here in Florida But did you say you can do it with fish?? That's wild! Do you know why it works??
That's really neat. I've never seen that trick. And I grew up fishing with worms in an area where a lot of walnuts grow. I used to get all my night crawlers by walking the fields at night with a flashlight. Or digging them out of my grandma's flower boxes... Wish I would have known this trick...
todays easy way washing soap liquid put a good dolip in a gallon of water stir well then tip it on your lawn. worms aplenty. Briddy UK.
Interesting: I maintain a roughly 100 sq. ft. area where we dump hickory leaves and nuts, which also contain Juglone, and there are lots of worms there - in fact I use it as a worm bed. Maybe they acquire tolerance to the Juglone? Or maybe it breaks down as the organic matter basically composts? Earthworms will actually tunnel into the decaying husks...
Great info! We are getting chickens this week and this will be a great way to get them healthy grub!
One request - the music is beautiful, but it makes it very hard to understand what you are saying! It's like trying to talk to someone at a dance. Any chance you could turn it down or just play it at the beginning/end of your video? Thanks! (I've subscribed to you and can't wait to go through the rest of your stuff!)
Juglone, the chemical found in walnut green husks, roots of walnut trees, and the leaves will kill or stunt the growth of many plants such as tomatoes. Before planting ANYTHING near walnut tree(s), do some research to see if what you're planting is juglone-sensitive. Other than that, walnut trees are the quintessential American hardwood tree.
Juggaloes, comprised mostly of young white men from working-class backgrounds, tend to feel misunderstood, either for being overweight, looking weird, being poor, or simply being fans of the group "Insane Clown Posse".
Cool video and you r a honest fellow.
yes sir . more soaking of the oils would have raised more bait
billy joe
Music flooded out your voice Bill, was hard to hear and understand you. But a good trick thanks!
sorry brother, I had a lot communication saying the same. it seems to be fine on my end.
+TAC1ONE I heard Billy Joe Denny fine.
+TAC1ONE ... with the southern drawl ... slow talk ... lazy annunciation ... and background music ... and with old ears ... many of your words ... did not compute. GOD Bless you though for your efforts.
+Maria Winzler Shut up!
+Howard is a Bell End ???
Great video bill. I just have one question. Will this work if you substitute the green walnut husks with chestnut husks?
Great tip Bill . i never seen that before ! thanks for sharing ,atb john
the mi woodsman thanks john , take care .
..bill
I had a huge black walnut growing in the back yard and never found worms around it until three years after it was cut down
hey brother. cool video! was it shot @ Bull Run Creek off Clinton Hwy? looks just like the area where I grew up Powell/Claxton, TN.
yes sir the video was shot at bull run creek, right there on clinton hwy.
awesome to meet someone that recognized the spot..
..bill
billy joe denny I knew it. What an odd chance of stumbling across this vid from a guy down the road a piece from where I grew up. The first thing I recognized was the bridge, and then the banks of the creek, then the part where you walked under the bridge. I got my first TWRA check for fishing license there when I was 16 (geeze 20 years ago) I was legal. Checked out your other videos and you have some quality vids man! I take my family to Big South Fork as often as I can it's definitely my favorite place to go unwind. Awesome vids fella! take care!
Thanks Bill loved your video. I love good ole boys
Lovely to see someone enjoying his own environment and sharing.. Loved this video.. Cheers from Australia.. Floot... and PS, the music was wonderful..
What chemical in the walnut husks causes the worms to rise up?
Thanks for the video , I think if I was starving I'd just put the walnut husks into the river or lake. Hope you never hurt your self when you slipped over. I see so many videos with lone fisherman. Am I the only one to use a life jacket. I just watched this video and the man who made it slipped on the wet bank. Take care all
My only question.. would water do the exact same thing? Every time I water my garden or it rains the worms come up.
I fished there a while back and it's a good fishing spot
Tried to watch it but the damned music just overwhelmed your voice!
Delboy Trotter well get (Dave) i mean Rodney to translate it for you!
I'd like to know what else I could use if there's no walnuts around? What'll do the same trick?
There might be other plants, none that I know of. But there are many manuals that point out primitive fishing including a few U.S army survival manual. Which mentions poisoning fish, like he said, in slow movie currents.
I'm wondering if it would be illegal to wash in the creek with black walnut leaves
What did he do about the poison ivy he put his hands on in the foreground, was there natural remedy for a too?
Wash off the oils before it is time to react. you can pick poison ivy with your hands go inside and wash your hands with dish soap and not get affected by it
What an awesome video Bill, I never knew about catching the worms like this but I am going to try it for sure!!! and well the other idea is good to know if your in a survival citation so Thank you! Blessings and Take Care
karenchakey thanks karen, ware gloves . I'm still waring walnut stains from the video,,lol..
..bill
great fishing trick of the trades...thanks much!
You didn't edit out the slip....bravo brother.....thanks for the video!!
Does that work with pecan husks?
Nice tip, thank you! I knew about the fish but not the worms...
I be durned! Just when I thought that I knew it all! Thanks Bill!
hawknives thanks brother, I'm always learning new things ..
..bill
How long did you let the walnut husks soak?
you can also use dish soap and water in a sprayed bottle. been doing for years. you can use the leaves of mulberry and bosion berry too.
keith neal -Do you just pour boiling water on whole mullbery leaves and let the liquid cool off add more water to dilute and then spray or pour it on the soil?Some advice would be appreciated.Thanks.
Good save from busted butt . Does the music really help ? Good video. People that leave their trash should be eliminated , like the trash , taken out.
The story tells of NATURAL tools.
Well scrap the plastic cup.I guess he recycles also.😀
Well I'll be dogged.... Learn something new every day
Neat trick, I'd just start a compost pile though
Just pouring water on the ground will bring up the worms. The walnut husks had nothing to do with it.
I'm a window washer... at the end of the day I dump my bucket of a few gallons of soapy water (Palm Olive is what I use) onto my lawn... and that's a good way to get worms to pop up out of the ground... as well as all the other critters that are underground like crickets, spiders, caterpillars, etc. Works best when the ground is already moist like after a rain. Would probably have even better luck if I had logs to roll over and check under... just aren't any in my yard. Sure, this tactic isn't all that natural or bushcrafty ... but it works.
Brad Cox thanks brad , thats what i hearing ..im going to have to try water ,,and soapy water as a control next time..
..bill
Thanks for the tip never was taught that one, but we never gathered walnuts and went fishen same day. Sure shucked my share of walnuts in my time tho
i had stains on my hands for a week after that vid,,lol.
..bill
what did the stain are from?
The ground in most of the county where I live is clay. And big-fat night crawlers love clay. After a light rain if I walk on the grass barefoot it is almost gross as there are thousands of night crawlers in the grass and they feel slimy when walking on them.
This seems like a lot of work to catch skinny worms. If they are not easy to find at night then I can see where this would be good to know.
Nice video. One more thing stored in the HD on top of my shoulders. To bad the only walnuts I have ever seen, came in plastic bags.
***** its a great resource to have , thanks ..
..bill
The best way to catch works is in spring thru fall in Kansas even in the city. After a rain Kansas has millions laying on top of the ground after a rain. Green worms on sand Banks with a mixture of dark soil. Best fishing worms I ever used was a stink green work very small in size .
Awesome tip Billy Joe! Thanks! Like and favorite button hit!
Lumberman2011 i appreciated that brother..take care.
..bill
are you OK after you fell
I mulched my garden with Walnut shells, nothing would grow, I'll never do that again.
Walnut fishing! I might have to look that up!
Wonderful tutorial ! Thanks !