Worms
Breed your own worms, its much cheaper.
Making a Wormery
Find a nice sheltered spot in the garden away from the sun.
Obtain some good quality compost and create a heap or put some in a plastic sack, add some kitchen scraps like potato peelings and other vegetable waste, introduce a stock supply of small red
earthworms.Ensure the heap stays moist not wet.
Many local councils are now supplying compost bins for as little as £10 and they come with full instructions
Feed the worms with kitchen scraps and try to disturb the heap as little as possible when obtaining your bait.
Return your unused bait to the compost heap.
To keep your bait fresh put a little of the moist compost in a bait box, if the weather is hot, add some damp moss or a pad of wetted kitchen paper.
Chopped worms added to your first lot of ground bait are a great attraction to most species of fish.
Small reds should be hooked through the thick end at the rear, a 16 or 18 hook is about right.
Combined with castor they make a deadly bait for Bream
Lob Worms
Ever popular and easy to find in rich damp soil, also on newly cut grass at night, take a torch and you will see them stretched out on the grass , careful its not quite so easy to grab them as the other end is anchored inside their hole and they recoil like the snapping of an elastic band, the trick is to go for the anchored end.
Keep them in a container full off damp moss and let them harden for a few days before using them.
The tail end only is often productive on hook size 14 or size 10 for whole specimens, these need to be hooked just behind the saddle.
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