He first found out about the method from anglers in the Wigan area. The four species of worm most often used as bait by anglers are redworms, brandlings, dendrobaena’s and lobworms.Ĭanal angling champion Simon 'Motty' Mottram, who trains our Let's Fish! coaches on the best canal fishing methods, is a fan of the lobworm as a bait on the canal network. None other than Charles Darwin wrote that "there are few animals that have played such an important part in the history of the world". There’s more than one species of wormĭid you know there are more than 25 species of worm found in the UK? Worms are more than just a fishing bait.
Doubtless this method would still produce results today. He would also loose-feed small lengths of redworm. He chopped up the redworms found in compost heaps into small sections about an inch long, which healed nicely after a few days. Despite not rating the bait that highly, Benny won 19 sweepstakes on the trot during the war years using the tail of a redworm with black magic leaf mould as groundbait. In the 20th century, the great north-west canal angler Benny Ashurst wrote that worms were not a popular bait with match anglers, having gone out of fashion.
Izaak Walton wrote of worms back in 1653, "for you are to know that dead worm is but a dead bait, and like to catch nothing, compared to a lively, quick stirring worm". History of worms as a fishing baitĭame Juliana Berners writing in the first half of the 15th century listed worm as a bait to catch the following species salmon, trout, grayling, barbel, carp, chub, bream, tench, perch, roach, dace, bleak, ruffe, gudgeon, flounder and eel. Get it right and chopped worm fishing can be a very successful method on our waterways.
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