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Anyone happen to farm/grow worms / other lil invertebrates?  Had to re start my red worm farm/ compost bin because it got flooded a year back but seems like the lil guys are finally back to it 🙂

They help make some great compost too.

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Considering trying to do black soldiers flys when I gets warmer too because they can eat meat scraps apparently 

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2 hours ago, Wolfdog91 said:

Anyone happen to farm/grow worms / other lil invertebrates?  Had to re start my red worm farm/ compost bin because it got flooded a year back but seems like the lil guys are finally back to it 🙂

They help make some great compost too.

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Considering trying to do black soldiers flys when I gets warmer too because they can eat meat scraps apparently 

Do you use the worms as fishing bait ? 

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13 minutes ago, waltjnr said:

Do you use the worms as fishing bait ? 

Of course 🙂 red or earth worms are like the #1 bait for any and everything over here lol....well at least to start out with. When in doubt, WORM 😂

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2 minutes ago, Wolfdog91 said:

Of course 🙂 red or earth worms are like the #1 bait for any and everything over here lol....well at least to start out with. When in doubt, WORM 😂

A lad came to our allotments and offered 50p each for worms.

My pal in the next garden spent a couple of minutes turning his compost heap over and sold him £20 worth !

Sells them at his fishing tackle shop evidently.

Cheers.

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As a kid we had a wormery for brandlings , my Oldman brought a stillage back from work (square metal basket about 4'² ) it's was then layed foot of horse manure (well rotted) hessian sacks and newspaper and repeat. Only had to lift a sack and they'd be loads of worms to put in a bait box with a bit of peat . 

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Was a old muckheap full of brandlings near home, caught my first ever fish on a brandling with one of those 5ft fishing kits, first cast bang a little brownie, remember drawing round it in a note book? Then frying and eating it, poor little thing 😆

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1 minute ago, Gilbey said:

Was a old muckheap full of brandlings near home, caught my first ever fish on a brandling with one of those 5ft fishing kits, first cast bang a little brownie, remember drawing round it in a note book? Then frying and eating it, poor little thing 😆

as kids we’d go to the local school farm manure heap it was huge full of them 

how many secondary schools now have a farm with sheep rabbits there own warren foul pigs 

let you in to  get bait etc 

we have gone backwards 

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18 hours ago, chartpolski said:

A lad came to our allotments and offered 50p each for worms.

My pal in the next garden spent a couple of minutes turning his compost heap over and sold him £20 worth !

Sells them at his fishing tackle shop evidently.

Cheers.

You get around 15/20 worms for £4:50 in the tackle shops here👍

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3 hours ago, Daniel cain said:

When I want some for fishing....I use a  washing up bowl of soapy water,spread it over an old piece of carpet at the back of the garden...go out 10 minutes later and fill a bait tub👍

When a turn flower beds over around the edge of the garden there's loads of worms. Due to me using compost an pot ash in the flower beds. A burn all shit in an old oil drum an all the shit an shavings out of my bird flights. Then chuck it on the garden. Crazy how many worms are in there big fuckers too. A might get a few out for chub in next couple of weeks. A chap I know has had a few pike on big lob worm 

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