Quest for the most expensive worm

[nottskev]

I was offered a pack of dendra's at £4.45 for 100g, that's £44.50 a kilo, in a local tackle shop (not one I frequent). With a worm farm not far away selling them at £21.00 per kilo, I think someone is taking the you know what.

Have you come across anything quite so larcenous on the worm front?

 

[binka]

I'm positively blessed.

My local will do me a kilo of dendras for something like £14 - £15 but the worst I ever saw was when Climax was still Climax and they wanted around £28!

Never had it so good though, I can now stop off at work, early en route to the river, grab the course utility vehicle and literally pick up as many huge lobs as I wish off the greens without having to put a spade in the ground and they're fresh as daisies.

I really ought to get organised with keeping 'em at home as they disappear whenever there's a frost.

 

[Aussie Bob]

about $11 for about a dozen worms in a tub ...so about 7 quid! I have seen them locally on facebook $30 about 19 quid for 100 ...i dont have a garden of any sorts so no luck there . i think i will have a look again at a worm farm at home when the weather cools....the actual worm farm is about 3km down the road which makes the prices even worse....

 

[markcw]

I am like binka, do it on the cheap, plenty of grass verges around the corner from me, start at one and work
my way along them then work my way back to the first one, plenty of lobworms to fill a 3 pint bait tub,
you get some funny looks and people asking if you have dropped something,
A few friends decided to get some off a traffic island one night, someone phoned the police because of "suspicious activity "on the island, police came and gave them a talking to for distracting the traffic.

 

[mikench]

Would that have been on the original" Lymm roundabout" Mark!

 

[binka]

You don't get many of these to the pound...

 

[mikench]

From the 18th Steve?

 

[binka]

From the 18th Steve?

Back garden at home mate, it was such a spectacular specimen that I couldn't bring myself to do anything with him other than to let him slither back to his lair.

 

[mikench]

Well done! He was a magnificent specimen Steve and worthy of a 5lb perch at least!

 

[markcw]

Would that have been on the original" Lymm roundabout" Mark![/QUOT
If you mean the one at Dunham Island on the way to Altrincham , Yes it was, There were 3 of them on there
mooching around with red sellophane over torch lenses and carrying bait boxes, this was around 10.45pm on a Friday night,

 

[markcw]

Steve I have had a few like that from the grass verges, they take some easing out of their hole at that size,
They still get chopped up though and potted in down the margins,

 

[mikench]

No wonder they caused suspicion!

 

[Philip]

about $11 for about a dozen worms in a tub ...so about 7 quid! I have seen them locally on facebook $30 about 19 quid for 100 ...i dont have a garden of any sorts so no luck there . i think i will have a look again at a worm farm at home when the weather cools....the actual worm farm is about 3km down the road which makes the prices even worse....

I read that some worms in Australia go to over 11 foot long, you should just get one of those, it will last you all season ! ... plus it will double up as a draft excluder for your door when your not fishing.

 

[dicky123]

Brought 100 for £20 from Willy Worm, really very good worms. I think for ease, worth paying for. JMO.