The sound that Gary Revell makes is otherworldly. Somewhere between a rusted door creaking open and a bullfrog with a sore throat. The simple materials he uses to create the sound – a strip of metal ...

He stuck a microphone in the ground to record the noise the stob makes and also measured how fast worms crawled away after reaching the surface. Flags represent places where earthworms have emerged ...

That’s the conclusion of the first scientific study of the old art called worm grunting. In the southeastern United States, bait collectors hunt earthworms by rubbing a piece of iron across a stake in ...

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 ...

It sounds a little like snake charming. You drive a wooden stake into the ground and draw a flat metal rod across the top, creating an bullfrog-like grunting sound. Within minutes, hundreds of ...