Short walk and safe digging with no risk of being cut off Snettisham / Heacham / Hunstanton hard going alot of the time though, as for the rest can't really help you But I do know some are dangerous with creeks to cross and risks of being cut off by the rising tide so be carefull

 

Yep?! £9?! To park in a puddle on land they don’t even own. Doth maketh a man right cross buh. Worm beds at Brancaster got a meter of sand on them a few years back and haven’t really recovered yet from what I have seen, not that I would use my delicate lure fishing hands to dig that stinking worm filth.

 

I dig for a living. It it far from easy. I will throw you a life line ,by not treading on my own feet . Go to stiffkey .freepark walk to the right to the 5 bridges from there youwill find enough to fish a sesh .

 

do they still dig morston

 

Heacham is easy digging ! Park north beach at the end of the beach huts ( free) and before the first brick building ..
As you walk over to the beach walk right a mininmum 4 groynes towards Hunstanton and fill ya boots , no need to even go outside the groynes !!
failing that if you can’t park for free there is a pay n display car park there also but no idea of cost as I never use it .
Failing that then go to Hunstanton , find some street parking if you don’t want to pay to walk ( or park tescos for 3 hours free parking ( less of a walk ) , personally tho I find heacham wams better than hunny wams ..

 

Heacham is easy digging ! Park north beach at the end of the beach huts ( free) and before the first brick building ..
As you walk over to the beach walk right a mininmum 4 groynes towards Hunstanton and fill ya boots , no need to even go outside the groynes !!
failing that if you can’t park for free there is a pay n display car park there also but no idea of cost as I never use it .
Failing that then go to Hunstanton , find some street parking if you don’t want to pay to walk ( or park tescos for 3 hours free parking ( less of a walk ) , personally tho I find heacham wams better than hunny wams ..

Great advice and respect for that as i know its your doorstep. Big black worms too 👍

 

That's good onya Chazza , times like these show the nice people there is on these forums good onya boi.
👍🎣🎣🎣👍

 

Perhaps a silly question but I'm going to ask it anyway because the answers are going to teach me and many others a lot about lugworm. I know that garden worms can be found in soil all over a garden. Are lugworms the same in the sense that any location with sand will also hold lugworm? I've seen lots of locations along the River Orwell with small sandy stretches that have mud under the sand which I've often thought would be perfect for lugworm but if sounds like this might be an over simplistic view.

 

If you can't see worm casts with keyholes, they aren't there.

 

I'm not sure about the keyholes, but every patch of sand I've seen along the Orwell and Deben has casts visible. Some in number, others less so.

 

Keyholes ? Must be a regional term , a lot of areas round here are bereft of worm , some just an odd patch and some pretty thick .
Worms often congregate different levels of a beach also

 

Key holes are what you look for when looking for razor clams on the low tide mark. What i think you are referring to is the disk depression (head end)left by the blow lug that links the horse shoe shape burrow to the waste cast tail end

 

You dont always see the depression at the tide can fill it with sand easlily . It then only reveals its self when the worm becomes active again. More oftern than not the cast will stay visible most of the time. Only on the more exposed beaches will they be washed clean . Worms are found in pockets, were they are at the optimum position for feeding. If the ground is to shallow they will not colonize for long and move to better beds . Blow lug are usely found from mid to top of the tide zone . Although as i right this i can think of a fair few spots were they are on the bottom. But in general blow are found middle to top. Its worth bareing in mind about the fact that particularly on our marshes there are nurseries that shouldn't be dug . They should be left to there possess of makeing there way down the beach to reach matured state . Good tip is to follow the runs down from the nurseries to the mid level of the tide zone and start your search there. Also the better worms are normally were water lies in shallow pools ,that leads to alot more work for your quarry. Ive lost count of the times people have said to me they tried digging a few times and now realize thats why they buy them from a shop/digger.

 

What a brilliant and generous response..........all power to the East Coast Forum!
At one time this forum was populated by negative keyboard warriors, keen to keep their catches and venues highly secret. I have always found, during 60 years of all types of angling, that the best fishers are keen to share information on venues, methods and catches. Fortunately, this type of angler now dominates the forum.
Special thanks to Col, Chazza and Roughgroundwarrior. Wild Scraper sounds more committed to metal and plastic?!
I don't expect the digging to be easy but at least I can start where there are worms!

 

I rocked up at Brancaster a fortnight ago and immediately drove back home, rather than pay £9 for parking on a rough bit of wasteland.......I knew N Norfolk had undergone gentrification decades ago but was crazy!

Thanks for the warning, looks like another bit of the county off limits to me. I'm getting hemmed in.

 

Once these bu66er* get the nod to charge for parking they keep increasing the payment. Disgusting I say, I mean nine quid !!!! OK Parking fees really get my goat. It's just another form of indirect taxation. There is not enough militancy we just roll over and die and peel off. I bet this is our Queens foreshore and they have no god given right to charge 1p let alone nine quid !

 

Regionally (well,in my house anyway) I call this a lug keyhole. I believe cockles and razors show in this way, too, but without the cast.
Anyone else remember when cod weren't just a rumour and coachloads of diggers used to arrive on Norfolk beaches? £10 a hundred 😁

 

I call that blow hole to the cast 😬.. remember those days well of the gangs and £10 a 5score, brother in law was in a gang , mums cousin died whilst out digging 1978 when the fog came from nowhere and he was disorientated by the fog and lost his bearings as well as his life 🥲

 

Campaigners turn out to support common rights holders' dispute

Protestors came from as far as Bristol to give support to Brancaster residents.

www.lynnnews.co.uk

 

God, I remember hearing that Chazza.
So sad.
Still gives me shivers thinking about it.
Made me buy a compass for my fishing watch strap.

 

Was only talking to his brother the other day at my works about it , he visits his grave every week still 😔

 

Just popped down beach out of curiosity about parking Charges for heacham north beach pay and display .. hope it helps

hope this helps , heacham north beach

 

Heacham north beach

 

Chazza, your'e a true gent..........you've done everything bar digging the worms!
Thanks again.