I sat out two tarby worm trees behind my house about 15 years ago. Each year they get a little bigger and that means a few more tarby worms on them. Today is the first day I have seen the white blooms on them flower out. A tarby worm tree isn’t that big and mine are probably about 18 feet tall. It’s a pretty sight to see the white blooms with a touch of brown color inside each bloom. It’s these flowers on the trees that will attract the moths to them. When the moths come in to eat the nectar from these white blooms (like the bees do), they will lay eggs on the leaves and branches of the tarby worm tree. Its these eggs that will hatch in a couple of weeks and become small worms. We call these worms “tarby worms” and they will spend their whole life eating off all of these leaves on the tarby worm trees.

These tarby worms make a great fish bait. They may not work as well as the white eagle does in catching its fish to eat each day, but I have had a lot of luck with catching fish from tarby worms. A tarby worm is a lot like a caterpillar, but without all of the prickly hairs like most caterpillars have. A tarby worm is smooth and they are black on their back side with little white dots. Their underside or the belly of the tarby worm is a bright lime green color. I believe this bright color sticks out well under water and fish can find them real easy in the lakes and rivers where you like to go fishing at. You can catch pretty much anything, if you use tarby worms as the bait. I mainly have caught bass, but bream, catfish, carp, and other fishes will go after the tarby worm. The white eagle is a beautiful bird that catches its fish with a lot of grace and ease. Or at least it appears that way to see them grab a fish from the waters like they do. I don’t think the tarby worm fishermen will make anyone’s fishing technique graceful-looking, but you should have a little luck catching fish, if you use tarby worms as the bait. The best part of all is the price for the tarby worms their self. Since they’re free, it makes owning a couple of tarby worm trees well-worth the price.

I should be having my first batch of tarby worms around the 4th of July. The worms are only around for about 1 week to 10 days. So you have to plan your fishing trips around Mother Nature, if you plan to use tarby worms in your bait tackle boxes. After the tarby worms have ate all the leaves from the trees, they disappear from sight. The trees then begin growing new leaves and will be full of leaves in no time at all. Once all the new leaves get fully grown, the tarby worms will hatch for a 2nd time and make one more seasonal appearance. This is your 2nd opportunity to get a few tarby worms to take fishing with you. I love to fish with them and I can’t wait until early July to go fishing with the tarby worms that will soon be appearing in my backyard. Let me know if you have seen or heard about tarby worms or the tarby worm trees? Also, please share your fishing stories on the success or lack of success you had; while using tarby worms as your bait.