To feed frozen bloodworms to your fish, simply cut the sheet or cube (if needed) and thaw it out. Live worms usually come in a plastic container.

The larvae life cycle is short, usually just 10-12 days, and they should be used within 2 or 3 days of buying them. Live Bloodworms They also don’t keep as long as the frozen or freeze dried varieties. Making a successful worm farm depends on raising the worms and getting them to market in a fresh state. The red worms are renowned as bait, and fisherman will pay fair prices for a fresh specimen. Traditionally, bloodworms are harvested from mud flats and sold to fisherman or as a food source for domestic pets. Bloodworms, for example, used to catch fish like striped bass, will put you back more than $80 per pound in the United States, about four times the price of lobster.īloodworms are so effective that some call them the “ultimate fish bait.” They have always been the bait of choice for saltwater fishermen who cast bottom rigs on the coast for winter flounder, weakfish, bluefish, perch, porgies and striped bass – particularly striped bass!.īetween Covid, that has seemed to slow some suppliers, and the cold weather back east (they’re brought in from Maine), blood worms have been hard to come by and expensive.

These worms are “more expensive than any you can think of,” says Gordon Watson, a researcher at the University of Portsmouth.

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