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This is a good video about keeping lobs.

I guess the benefit of them being toughened up is that they are less easily broken by nibbling smaller species?

MaggotDrowner wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 9:12 pm I guess the benefit of them being toughened up is that they are less easily broken by nibbling smaller species?

I think they just stay on the hook longer and better.

Remember different worms need different soil/treatment/etc! Lobs - brandlings - redworms - etc.

Snape wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 8:41 pm

MaggotDrowner wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 8:36 pm Thanks everyone for their advice. Especially Dave, who must think his is very important, as he posted it not one, not twice, but three times!!!

Duplicate posts by Dave removed.

Thanks Snape. I only pressed the button once but it took an absolute age to go through. Technology at fault not me - honest

If keeping for a couple of weeks I put my worms in a metal bait tin with good soil and moss on top and keep in the fridge, they last far longer but you have to watch for limp dead worms. Outside I have a kitchen waste bin which has garden soil/compost inside which I top up with shredded paper and leaves etc, as I dig or find worms on the grass I put them inside. It has been so dry down here I have no stored worms at all at present which I will have to remedy for my winter river fishing.

The perils of lobworm collecting!

Late one Friday night I was collecting lobs on the lawns of our farmhouse.
And found the twin barrels of the business end of a 12-bore pressed firmly to my head.

A neighbour had seen my shaded torch on his way back from a late night lock-in at the pub.
Collected and loaded his shotgun, and come to arrest me. He could hardly stand.

If he'd had one more pint of Hull Brewery Bitter that night ...

After that encounter I’d be prepared to fish bread only - having said that braving the supermarket is a daunting prospect but not life threatening - not usually.