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To gather a mess of earthworms for the next fishing trip, break out a worm fiddle. Worm fiddling, worm charming or worm grunting all refer to a practice some anglers have been using for centuries to ...

Vanderbilt biologist Ken Catania has discovered the secret of "worm grunting" -- the Florida practice of driving a wooden stake into the ground and rubbing it with a long piece of steel to produce a ...

At least, I've never heard an earthworm grunt. If they did, they might be easier to find when I want to go fishing, but one afternoon in the campground at Ratcliff Lake I saw people clustering around ...

When biologist Ken Catania heard about the peculiar practice of worm grunting practiced in the Apalachicola National Forest in the Florida Panhandle one of his first thoughts was an observation made ...