Northwest Sportsman -- High Cost Opens a New Can of Worms

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I was heading out to do some walleye fishing a while back and stopped into the local convenience store to pick up a couple dozen worms. I was slightly shocked when my worm bill came up to almost six bucks, including what I assume was a worm tax.

Doing some quick math told me my latest worm purchase worked out to just under 25 cents per worm! Man, inflation really has hit everything. I can remember as a kid paying 75 cents for a dozen nightcrawlers and we thought at the time that was highway robbery. But sometimes when you are in a hurry to go fishing and you just have to have worms, you will pay almost anything.

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Northwest Sportsman -- High Cost Opens a New Can of Worms

It used to be that we never bought worms for fishing.

My grandpa used to dig his own worms. He would go out into the back garden where, at just about any given time, he could take a shovel, turn the soil a...

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