Earthworms?????

[Cormdogg]

I can never make it to the tackle shop after work before it closes, but I do have a compost heap in the garden, Would earthworm tipped with mack work a treat, ledgered or on the float? They would get up to a lot of wriggling for 15 min or so at least!

[anthony2carr]

I would think so.

Try them. Alot of people will write it off before trying it.

Nothing like experience to decide one way or another.

[fishermannum1]

hi comrmdogg, i have used earthworms a lot and they do work, but they die very quickly in salt water.
if you cant get time to get to your tackle shop for bait, try the prawns from lidl.
even the wee tubs of cooked ones at 99p work well, i got a lot of different species on them last year. good luck....

[bigsod]

I have always wondered about using them, and as a landscape gardener i encounter them all the time.I recon they could be deadly for pollock on the float or for flatties close in head hooked on a ledger rig.I will try it in the near future.

[slowarm]

Estuary fishing with them will get you flounder and other species. Have caught pollock, codling and whiting on them when there used to be fish in the Liffey.

[dan]

my biggest ever wrasse (5.75lbs) was caught on earthworm tipped with a white maggot on a feeder rod, running leger, size 16 hook, 4lb mainline and a 2lb hooklength, caught loads over 4lbs and thousand 1-4lbs, had some nice pollack, coalies, codling and mackerel on the same tactics.



WORKS A TREAT.........

[Pat]

I've picked up dabs years ago on earthworms. Just tried them out of desperation one night. Never tried them since.

[Ronan]

The one and only open that i have ever won and i'm only fishing opens the past 2 years was at the Roe Estuary and most of my 15 flounder were got on plain earth worms. They don't work as well on beaches but definately do in muddy estuary water.

[beachbuddy]

Hi there,
for what its worth a very good bass angler down this way used to keep tell me to use them as a tip bait on lug when they get scarce during the colder months.His theory was that once the earthworms died they used to do go a white colour resembling the white rag,he reckoned day time was best using this tactic.Never tried it though as i was and still am sceptical when bass hunting but maybe soon i'll give it a lash.
Tight lines

[dan]

I've picked up dabs years ago on earthworms. Just tried them out of desperation one night. Never tried them since.

had the same last year in millisle, county down hundred of dabs, flounders, sandgobbies, black gobbies, shannys and sea scorpians on waggler set ups- all fish just tiny like................

[thighlinescork.com]

when you think about it,the same as salmon fishing after a rivers water level rise,s and floods x-amount of the bank will get washed away and in it you will have x-amount of worms and the Estuary will flood when its a nice brown colour this is just my logic thinking behind why fish in the Estuary,s would feed on them.the do die pretty fast in salt water and when a Estuary floods the water becomes more brakes and let the worm live longer have seen cod been caught on them in cork harbor on yellow feathers/worms from a boat .

[dan]

had a nice codling on them about 4 years ago in portaferry.....

[eric]

had good ray off them last year off dun laoghaire pier by the bandstand, work a treat, gotta pile em on to get a scenty bait though, believe or not the matchmans favourite secret bait