Shoreham beach is fine if you only want a few worms.Just about all the way along from ferry road to lancing and beyond.Should be fine for lug and a few whites.Then you've got the river for crabs or reds.Good luck.

 

hi there thedancer you can dig lug and white at lancing worthing and shoreham your best bet is to walk along the beach at low tide and see if anybody is digging see what they are diging then bingo

 

hi there thedancer you can dig lug and white at lancing worthing and shoreham your best bet is to walk along the beach at low tide and see if anybody is digging see what they are diging then bingo

Spot on advice, walk along from Lanciing to Worthing, find the worm casts (or other diggers) and then digging small blow lug it really quite easy - you'll also get a few whites as mrcrabs says. But you'll need around 80-100 lug for a decent session, should only take an hour or so to get these with a good size fork.

There is aslo reasonably good black lug digging available around Hove/Southwick but this is more of an "art" and can only be done on big tides. Most use a small spade and dig down on single casts until they see the worm tail then grab it, or work your hand deep down the worm hole - they are often up to 3ft down. You'll do well to get 20 at first but they are superb worms.

 

Good advice about where to dig from the other guys.Start off digging blow lug and go for blacks later. My advice is to dig for lug when the tide is coming in. They are not so deep then.You will get your worms quicker and with less effort. I dig my blow lug at West Worthing generally.Look to see how far down the beach the diggings are. They won't be at the low water mark.Best of luck.

 

This may be of help :thumbs:

http://www.worldseafishing.com/baits/lugworm.html

 

Thanks guys for the info,im well happy to have had some response to my post,

I will give the spots a try when i can.

Sometimes its easier to go and buy some due to having a young son,i mainly go night fishing when he is in bed,trying to find time to dig will be the main thing.

Even if i can go for an hour or so and just get enough for a couple of hours fishing:thumbs i would be over the moon,all adds to the hunter gatherer feeling.
Dig your own bait and catch you own tea,nice and cheap.

Anyway.

Many thanks again for the help.

Tight lines.:thumbs::thumbs::thumbs:

Phil.

 

while on the subject of bait digging, i have a great spot for digging rag, and plenty of them as well, but the last couple off times i,ve been, 75% of the worms i,ve dug have been jelly like? just wondering if its because they breed or sumat like that? anyone shed any light on the matter, thanks dave

 

while on the subject of bait digging, i have a great spot for digging rag, and plenty of them as well, but the last couple off times i,ve been, 75% of the worms i,ve dug have been jelly like? just wondering if its because they breed or sumat like that? anyone shed any light on the matter, thanks dave

Hey Davey,
They normally go green and become very fragile, bleeding a greenish pale liquid when burst, and quite useless for bait when they are breeding. I normally find it April/May time down here. I wonder if it might be some kind of response to the cold. Otherwise, might be some kind of disease?

 

Robin,

Strange you should say that about Ragworm when they're green as my three Flounder PBs (currently stands at 2lb 12oz) have all been caught when using the green slimey worm left in the bait bucket at the end of a session, on the open beaches in early April.

I know what you mean when you suggest they're slimey and burst easy but they were all I had left on each occasion and in two instances saved me from a blank session.

Ian

 

worms are going green on the island now!best left alone to breed to insure new stocks.
Andy

 

hi there, you could try the silversands or the small beach by the shoreham arm car park . rag/lug/and black lug. [good luck]

 

Robin,

Strange you should say that about Ragworm when they're green as my three Flounder PBs (currently stands at 2lb 12oz) have all been caught when using the green slimey worm left in the bait bucket at the end of a session, on the open beaches in early April.

I know what you mean when you suggest they're slimey and burst easy but they were all I had left on each occasion and in two instances saved me from a blank session.

Ian

They do free swim when they are breeding, so I guess the fish would adapt to the food source. Must admit, I leave them in the mud when I am digging. Thats a cracking flounder 2lb 12oz.

 

worms are going green on the island now!best left alone to breed to insure new stocks.
Andy

You insure your ragworm on the IOW?????? What are the premiums like? Can you get life cover on them?

 

You insure your ragworm on the IOW?????? What are the premiums like? Can you get life cover on them?

The diggers I know wont dig when the worms are spawning.
Andy