First episode focused solely on bait collection and gives all the info you need to chase some beach worms for the first time.
LOCATING BEACH WORMS:
While beach worms are found outside of NSW, the following info is all gained from my experience chasing them in this state. Most beaches have beach worms but not all of them, and some beaches have much better populations than others. When selecting a beach, you are likely to have more success if:
• The beach has low slope - worms can be found on steeply shored beaches too, but you will have a very hard time catching them as there is less time between waves.
• A beach has fine sand - worms dislike coarse/gravely sand or if there is shell fragments or stones. These things also make it harder to spot worms as they rise.
Once you select a beach, get there an hour before low tide and start waving your stink bag in the waves near where they stop and see if any worms rise causing a V to form in the water as it recedes. If there are no worms after a few waves, walk 5m up the beach and repeat until you find a school of them. If you find a school of small worms, keep moving on as they tend to school up with others of the same size. Also, if you find a spot with only a couple of good worms, note where it is but keep looking for better ground as it might save you a lot of time and frustration. The ends the beaches are good spots to start, especially if it’s a long drivable one, with the northern ends having a better chance of holding worms in my experience.
There are a couple of other things to consider, with the first being the size of the tide. You can only seriously chase worms on a low tide, but, if it is a neap low tide (greater than 0.6m) the water may not get low enough to give you much opportunity between waves. On the other hand, spring tides (less than 0.3m) can cause a period over the bottom of the tide where the worms will stop rising. Waiting for the tide to start pushing back in should see them come back on the chew. Lastly, worms can become reluctant to rise for very long if it is overly windy. You can beach worm in the rain, but I’ve got a feeling that they will also go shy if it’s bucketing down. It is also possible to catch beach worms at night.
It also seems that beach worms grow pretty quickly, so if you find a stack of small worms, there’s a good chance that there will be a stack of good sized worms there a couple of months later.
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Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:59 - Kit & Bait
5:52 - Dry Run
9:01 - Catching Worms
19:55 - Zoomed and Slowmo examples
21:12 - Storing Worms
23:31 - Outro/The Lows & Highs of Worming
16 июн 2024
