does anybody know how to make worm shockers?

I made one a few of these when I was a kid, with images in my head of a dozen nightcrawlers leaping out of the ground and into my worm can. It didn't work quite that way, but it did work.

You need 3-4 feet of lightweight electrical wire -- two pieces of about 1.5 or 2 feet long. This is not braided electrical cord, but household wiring with plastic insulation on it. Next you need two long "electrodes" of conductive metal that can be driven a foot or so into the ground -- I used two long screw drivers, but don't tell my dad. Finally, you need a 6-volt lantern battery -- the square kind with little springs for nodes.

Now, strip the wiring at one end so you can wrap it around your electrodes about 6 or 8 times. Strip a little less off the other end of the wiring and connect those ends to the battery nodes (one wire to positive and the other to negative). You might want to cover those connections with some electrical tape. Now your electrodes are live. You can touch them together and see a teeny spark, or touch them to your tongue and feel a little twinge. This is only 6 volts -- the danger here is negligible. My dad's screwdrivers worked well as electrodes because they had plastic handles, so I could use them without feeling any current or grounding out the battery. If you have some lengths of bare metal, you might contrive some handles with some electrical or duct tape.

Find a place outside with bare ground or light vegetation (like a grassy lawn). Get it REALLY wet. Like put a sprinkler on it for a few hours. Worms will begin to come up in the wetted area because they cannot tolerate conditions that are too wet (they can't breath or feed in mud). However, this takes a while, and the worms are careful not to come all the way out of the ground. If they detect the slightest movement, they'll shoot back into the ground. The worm shocker will pass a very mild current through the water in the soil and force any worms that are near the surface to come out of the ground. Drive your electrodes into the wet ground about 2 feet apart -- if everything is working, you will eventually see a worm or two enthusiastically make for the surface with no interest in going back down. The optimal distance between the electrodes may vary. I did this a long time ago, but it seemed like 2 feet or less was best. Move the electrodes around to find more worms.

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does anybody know how to make worm shockers?

Here is how to make an electric one.

actually no real case of electrocution by a worm probe has ever been recorded, while making them yes but that was human error... anyway what you do is take an extension cord cut off the female end strip about a foot of the cover off to expose the wires then take the black wire or live wire and strip it to the copper wire !!!MAKE SURE THE CORD IS COMPLETE UNPLUGGED AND AWAY FROM ANY OUTLETS!!! then you wrap it around a conductive pole or some sort of prod wrap it with electrical tape the cover the ends of the other wires with electrical tape make sure you have a non conductive substance to hold on to when placing and removing probe it usually take a good 10 to 20 minutes for it to start working if nothing is happening by about 30 minutes then either there are no worms bedded there or you didn't do it right

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no but when I was younger I'd catch them after a rain storm ....they all have their heads sticking out so they don't drown.....just pull them gently so you don't break them in half....Happy Fishin'