I've caught wrasse on them when i haven't had anything else!

 

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I've caught wrasse on them when i haven't had anything else!

had my biggest wrasse, shore pollack and shore whiting on earthworm on a feeder rod that i use for bream and roach on lough erne.

last year i had flounders, dabs, codling, wrasse, sandgobbies, shannies, black gobies, rock gobbies, giant gobbies, whiting, sea scorpians, rockling, poorcod and pouting on them, this year i had dab, shanny, rock gobby and a small diggie on them
well the doggie was on earthworm tipped with a very thin slither of mackerel.

 

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i once caught a wrasse of nearly 2lb on a sliver of bacon cos i had run out of bait and wasnt ready to go home but had a couple of rashers left from brekkie

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I heard before Flounders and Eels like them.

Never tried them myself though.

 

i will be starting to use them again in the next few months as the are very affective in the estuary for flounders and eels

 

Had pollock and whiting on them

 

is this a new thing beats paying for rag when u can dig yer garen lol

 

ive been using them on my local surfbeach for flounder they work realy well when tipping of worm baits or bulking up bunches of maddies i find the small red worms seems to work best maybe the colour and they riggle like hell in salt water

 

We used to flood the lawn with a hosepipe when it got dark and the worms came to the surface to avoid drowning. We just picked them up and used them for eel fishing. Caught loads. Eels also love live dickie bunters and prawns. Don't fish for them anymore, just a nightmare messing up the traces.

 

i had two eels on them, it was easy to get earthworm from my composter

 

i had two eels on them, it was easy to get earthworm from my composter

I used to catch small flounder on earthworms in bristol docks and eels!

 

Sorry all,

I tried this hmmmm 30 years ago.

Yes I am old.

Bowling harbour on the River Clyde.

LOB !!!! please note LOB not Lug worm turn almost grey/white and catch nothing at that location.

A change to Lug or Rag produced instant results.

 

i had great success in denmark when i float fished small earthworms near the surface for garfish

 

used to catch snottys & flounder even had a small bass on garden worm down the docks at posset as a kid, used them in the bc but no luck

 

After heavy rain worms will get washed down rivers and out to sea, if a fish see one it will eat it,as fish are scavengers and if hungry will eat anything that looks like food

 

used as a kid in the local river. infact all we used to use, Had loads of snotties, some big flounder, and have seen whiting and codling caught on them, the further up river you went the more succesful they seemed to become.

 

big fat lobworm after a south westerly produced flounders an eel and whiting for me in january.

 

Back when... in a river so far up you could hardly tell it was tidal, flounders took earthworms no problem - lob worms, not brindlings - they were reserved for trout (on a different stream).

I suppose they're likely to die quicker in salt water than those species that live in it, but even a long-drowned earthworm would work in freshwater, so what it looks like has as much to do with it as the amount of wriggle. They used to reckon trout see an earthwrom as an elver, though there's much less visibility in sea water most of the time, so maybe that wouldn't apply off the beach.

 

Going back about 25 yrs , i had been invited to go sea fishing by a social club who were having one of there quarterly outings,
I had never fished with these guys before, so did not know what to Expect.
Also i had been out on the drink the night (well 3 nights ) before and Had forgotten about bait.
So me and old guy i used to fish with turned up at fraserburgh,force 5
And the only bait we had were lobworms ,or dewies as they are called up this way,that had been left from an earlier Seatrout session
So with stomach churning we met the other anglers,(bunch of Pretentious PR***S) they had rag ,lug,fish baits,crab, all marinated in Pilchard oil.They laughed their ****S off at our feeble attempt for Bait
But when the fishing started Me and mate were into codling,ling haddies
before the club boys were off the mark, this carried on for the whole trip ,and i nearly coughed up a lung when this posh git said can borrow one of your earth worms and he was straight into the best fish of the day a ling of around 11lb .
This day was probably a one off ! but i enjoyed it.

 

Always used earthworms to catch eels when i was a young boy ,they worked very well.

 

is this a new thing beats paying for rag when u can dig yer garen lol

just dig the rag or lug. save u a load eh cash.

 

I was goin to say the same to be honest, used earthworms myself and only caught eels, and i cant stand them (Eels that is)