who here has been brave enough to used wasp larvae . you know the little grub in a wasp nest . every thing love them !!!!

the trick is not getting stung a bunch of times getting the nest .

I used to all the time when I was a kid. Better bait than crickets. Back then there was several barns and other structures to know down plenty of nests. Lots of adrenalin rushes in that!

I don’t know how they could be better then crickets. Plus, crickets are pretty damn easy and convenient , but I’ll take ya’lls word on it.

Hell, getting the nests is as much fun as fishing with them. Those man eating bream love them.

Used them all the time when I was a kid. One nibble and they are off the hook.

My great-uncle could rub his hand in his arm pit and reach up and grab a nest and not get stung.

I did as a kid, not so much anymore.
Don't see those huge wasp nests anymore.

Lonster, there are people here who won't believe that armpit trick, but I have seen it done. When I was a kid on the farm, we had an old Creek Indian named Gus who worked for us. He used that trick to collect nests that grew in the dried cornfield. We, being chicken-squat white folks, would tie a wad of paper to the end of a bream pole and light it so we could sear the wings off the adult wasps sitting on the nest. Then you hurried to knock down the nests before the unharmed adults flew back in. As mentioned earlier, they didn't last long on a hook. If you want long-lasting bait, it's hard to beat a catalpa sphinx moth caterpillar. That's tobber worms for you unwashed heathens.

y'all aint using them right .use a tiny eagle hook , hook the larvae from the tail to the head .

and yeah ,,,,, i aint saw a dinner plate sized red wasp next in many years .

Dang red wasp will eat up your baby tawgers and then you won't be able to fish with a good turned tawger.

Ive known a few cats in my day that could do that and prolly run the wasps off and anything else....

We used to light a piece of newspaper, hold it quickly up to the nest to burn all the wings off the wasps, then pull the nest down and use it for fish bait.

A word of caution!!!...do not acquire the nest a couple days in advance of your fishing trip and store it in a paper bag, you'll get a real nasty (and painful) surprise when you're out on the boat and reach into it to get the nest!
Ask me how I know that!

I've used wasp larvae and also maggots. We harvested maggots from old fish heads and put them in a 5 gallon bucket of shelled corn with a little water. Dang things grew to almost the diameter of a pencil and were super tough for a fish to knock off the hook. And yes they worked very good

I took a wasp nest to show and tell in the 3rd or 4th grade. They started emerging from the nest during the day. Pretty cool to watch.

My grandfather would bake them in the oven for a little while to toughen them up so the fish couldn’t pull them off as easy.

Alagator I'm glad you could vouch for the trick. I figured some of these folks would doubt it and call me out.

The armpit trick may be for real but i aint trying it......I would like to see a vid of someone doing it...anybody game?

I saw the armpit/ wasp nest picking trick when I was a kid one Sunday after church. The preacher wiped his hand under his armpit and plucked the nest off the church porch. That was 35+ years ago and I still ain't worked up the courage to try it.

Around the same time, we started getting those big yellow European hornets. My grandpa cut a big willow tree down by the pond that had a nest like honeybee combs inside. Me and my cousin broke into the rotten tree to look at it. My cousin took some of the combs or nests home and put them in his closet. Those jokers hatched out in their house.

A few years ago i watched Shelby Stanga on history channel. I think it was called shelby stanga the swamp man?

He did the arm pit trick and they tore his arse up. The camera man had to jump out of the boat if i remember rite.

I saw a guy rub his arm pit and take a wasp nest out of a little league dug out. I ain’t trying it though.

Hech Nah. Wasps and snakes leave me out