Quote Originally Posted by Eel Noob View Post
It should be fine as long as you haven't used fertilizers or pesticides around your yard. We used to catch hundreds of nightcrawlers from my parents' yard and feed them to our fishes and frogs with no ill effects.

Anyone know where walmart get their worms from? I have a cousin that told me they used to pickup nightcrawlers off the street and yards after heavy rain to sell to distributor in Michigan.
If you read DMF's about section (Walmart's supplier) it sound like that's exactly what they do!!

DMF Bait Our History

I guess you might as well just get it from your backyard! Sucks too because they market them for pets as well as bait!