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Improve your skills with coarsefish
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Hooking Bloodworm
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 The
larvae of the Midge fly, better known as bloodworm is a hot
favourite of match anglers.
Notoriously
difficult to harvest from the sludge in ponds and waterways, it's
best to buy it from your local tackle shop.
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 They can be as hard to hook as they can to
harvest as they are extremely fragile.
One
of the best ways is to select a good looking specimen and lie it into
the crease of your hand as shown here.
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Make
sure that the dark end of the worm is towards the outer edge of your
hand, as this is where you want to hook it.
Now
using a really sharp, and small, hook, 20's or smaller, gently slide the
hook through the 'head' of the worm.
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 Take
care not to burst the worm as it will be spoilt.
Bloodworm can
give you the edge on waters when all else seems to fail, and as they
occur naturally in most waters, the fish will snap them up!
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Many pleasure anglers shy away from bloodworm on
the grounds of cost, but it doesn't need to be an expensive addition to
your bait options.
A 'match pack' from your tackle shop should cost around 4 quid, and if shared between two makes it affordable for most.
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