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Where to Dig or Buy Lugworm in Wicklow
Black lug on Wicklow beaches: where to dig on open sand, marks to avoid, bait shops in Greystones, Wicklow town and Arklow, and how to keep worm fresh.
7 min read · lugworm
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Tactics, gear, and guides for Wicklow shore anglers. Written from the marks Bray to Arklow.
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Black lug on Wicklow beaches: where to dig on open sand, marks to avoid, bait shops in Greystones, Wicklow town and Arklow, and how to keep worm fresh.
7 min read · lugworm
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Where to catch bass on the Wicklow coast: the beaches and rock marks that produce, the baits and lures that work, and the tides to fish them on.
8 MIN · BASS
Beginners
Start shore fishing in Ireland with one rod, one rig and a safe beach mark. Honest gear, bait and tide advice for your first sessions on the Wicklow coast.
10 MIN · BEGINNERS
Species
Winter flounder on Irish beaches, October to March. Estuary mouths, short casts, ragworm ledger rigs and the flood tides that put flatfish at your feet.
6 MIN · FLOUNDER
Tactics
Bass from Irish harbour piers and walls: where fish hold, dawn and dusk tides, lures and baits that work on Greystones, Wicklow and east coast piers.
6 MIN · BASS
Tactics
How to find, identify, prepare and fish peeler crab, the bait Irish bass and smoothhound cannot ignore. Where to collect it and how to keep it fresh.
6 MIN · PEELER CRAB
Tactics
Fish feed harder after dark on Irish beaches. The species worth targeting at night, the Wicklow marks that fish best, and the gear and safety rules that matter.
7 MIN · NIGHT FISHING
Tactics
The bass lures that consistently produce from Irish beaches and piers: soft plastics, surface lures and metals, plus the colours and retrieves for each.
8 MIN · BASS LURES
Spots
Wicklow Head is the county's best rock mark: pollack, wrasse and mackerel from May to August. The three platforms, how to reach them, and what to throw.
7 MIN · WICKLOW HEAD