Where to dig bait in Wicklow?

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#1 Post by **Scamper** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:16 pm

Does anyone know any good places to dig in Wicklow?

Fed up paying 6 euro for 20 rag.

#2 Post by **boycie89** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:46 pm

there are 2 beds inside wicklow harbour 1 rag and 1 lug !

#3 Post by **EricH** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:04 pm

You can dig big rag at the Wire Ropes, the digging is hard, the ground is very very stoney but you can get some monster rag there albeit in small numbers.

In the harbour, beside the sailing club and that sandy area has a few lug and rag at either end where the stones are, not great.

Also, the river has Rag, but at the moment the digging isnt great, seems that someone has been digging all winter coz the place looks like no mans land and usually after the winter all the holes etc from the summer digging have filled in . . not this time though . . .

Again, hasn't great numbers of bait, but you'll geta few dozen, enough for a session anyway . . . but nowhere near as good as teh spots in Dublin etc.

#4 Post by **ginoceltic** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:31 pm

Rocker got 100 rag last week at wire ropes hard digging though went up to the iron bridge and got 30 lug.

#5 Post by **Scamper** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:00 pm

Sounds good
Thanks for the info. :D

Will give them a go.

Are there any other good ones further south around Brittas Bay or Arklow?

#6 Post by **Breathe the o2** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:35 pm

Is digging rag the same as digging lug?Sorry for the stupid question but would love to go digging rag in the near future!

#7 Post by **EricH** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:46 am

Some say there is a knack for digging lug, which i have been told improves the number of worms you get, but me, i dig the same way for both and get enough each time so i would say dig as normal.

#8 Post by **EricH** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:47 am

Alright Gino,
Yeah, the Wire Ropes is a pig to dig . . .you'd nearly need a rock breaker down there!!!

The river is where I go most of the time, just for the easier digging!!

:-)

#9 Post by **Donagh** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:08 pm

When the river was badly polluted and there was a lot less digging going on we used to get rag 3 foot long from wire ropes when pulled straight and the thickness of you tumb (or at least thats how I remember them). Two of us would dig with one holding the worm so it couln't bury down and the other digging them out. The lug near the sailing club is of poor quality and I gave up digging it when I got big enough to dig for rag as I caught bugger all on it. The work down on the stream here means any rain wipes out the lug piles now. There also used to be a broken suir pipe here that I'msure used to help matters.

Donagh

#10 Post by **EricH** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:23 pm

Hi Donagh!

I remember over by the sailimg club me and a mate could get rag maybe 15-16 inches long and as a kid (12-13) you could get any amount of bait at the sailing club or the "strand" beside it but since that pipe wa sput there many years ago there seems to be few worms there at all . .

But you can still get plenty of lug if you know where to look!
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