| High mackerel, herring, mussel and razorfish are all good, but the best by far is a dried black lugworm. |
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| The bulk of cod fishing is done with worm baits, usually lugworm due to the copious amounts of blood juice the lug holds, but also ragworm. |
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| For the bigger fish, try peeler crab tipped off with a tiny square section of mackerel or squid, or lugworm with a tippet of mackerel or squid. |
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| Dominic likes to use ragworm, but suggests mackerel strip or lugworm and making up cocktails with squid strips. |
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| Anglers had a selection of baits with them lugworm, ragworm mackerel, sandeel and peeler crab to catch that winning fish. |
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| Whenever we fished this popular jetty, I got the job of digging up the lugworm on the beach, and then gutting the mackerel when we got home. |
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| Their main prey tends to be polycheate worms, such as lugworm, which are incredibly numerous in shallow water. |
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| One lugworm and a thin strip of squid will not get very far in a seething maelstrom of a sea where the tide is screaming through and you have other anglers all around you. |
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| Several other anglers also caught early Pouting using mostly lugworm and ragworm baits presented on three hook rigs clipped down to gain a little extra distance. |
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| In the lugworm, Arenicola, there is evidence for a brain neuropeptide that stimulates oocyte maturation. |
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| Wind and tide shift the resultant silt across the surface of the bay, where shellfish, shrimps and lugworm feed hosts of wading birds. |
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| Many of them in the sea where they are vacced up by barnacles, lugworm and amphipods. |
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| In their midst a portly curlew forages, probing the mud several times before plunging its slender down-curved bill in up to the hilt and winkling out a lugworm. |
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| The rivers Tyne and Wear have produced lots of undersized codling with the odd better fish to 3lb, lugworm taking most fish. |
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| Most of the smaller fish have been falling to crab, with the biggest fish falling to lugworm. |
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| Fishing with lugworm on the hook, Ian added a dab, flounder and a rockling for 1550gms. |
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| It was landed by Prestwick angler Stuart Cresswell fishing near Arbroath and was tempted by lugworm. |
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| Rock edge marks at Newton, Cullernose, Cresswell and Dunstanburgh seeing codling between 1-2lb with only occasional decent fish, lugworm working well. |
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| Fishing on the block at Whitby East Pier in the Saltburn match over high water, he caught three codling for 7lb 10oz on mixed bait including lugworm and crab. |
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| Lugworm and ragworm are also good, but tend to produce the smaller fish. |
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