Bloodworm.
How Fresh Are Your Bloodworms?
Hooking Your Bloodworm
Hooking your bloodwrom correctly is integral to its effectiveness. Hook your bloodworm properly and you will reap the rewards of using a widely accepted deadly bait. Hook the bloodworm carefully in the head segment and reel in those fish.
Bloodworm Balls?
Bloodworm have the habit of forming tight balls. Your tight balls of bloodworm make it virtually impossible to select a single worm for hooking. So how do you seperate your ball to get that sigle worm for hooking? Simple you need some compost or peat. Place your compost or peat into a container and place your ball of bloodworms on the top. Almost immediately you will see that the worm ball breaks up as the worms start to burrow into the compost. This is when you select the worm for your hook.
Bloodworn should be a good deep red colour and the bigger the better a good bloodworm should be lively the more lively the worm the better.
A Deadly Bait
It is widely recognised that in a match situation bloodworm are deadly. They will attract many smaller fish and have been known to be banned from certain waters because of their attraction. Fish your bloodworm either on the drop or mixed with groundbait and you are virtually gaurenteed of success as the bloodworm are known to be great fish fixers. So go and get your bloodworm and catch many many fish. A some point in time you will start to miss bites, when this happens then hook your bloodworm a couple of segments below the head and this will rectify the problem.
Keeping Them Alive
If you want to keep your bloodworm for around a week and not in a tight ball then this process is simple. Put your bloodworm into the peat or compost and leave them for around five minutes. Then place this mixture on a sheet of newspaper. The newspaper must be damp. Fold the newspaper carefully so the bloodworm cannot escape but do not do this too tightly as if you do then you may kill them. You have to keep your bloodworms cool so use your trusty friend the fridge. Make sure your bloodworm do not freeze as this will kill them.