lob-worm

One July, within my own remembrance, a splendid fellow of 3 lb. 2 oz. was taken with a lob-worm from one of the Loddon milltails.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

When near on top of him, I gripped him round the nape of the neck, digging my fingers in his flabby throat, and he went slimy with fright like a great, fat lob-worm.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

At any rate, the only result we achieved at that particular time was the necessity of affixing another lob-worm to the hook, and the casting out of the bulleted line again.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

You may angle for him with Salmon Roe, a lob-worm or Minnow after a flood and before the water has subsided, but he is usually taken by night-lines, baited with lob-worms or Minnows.

The Teesdale Angler R Lakeland

She only stop shut up those stiff 'uns, who all love lob-worm one day.

A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Was it fair, Sally thought to herself, to expose that dear old Mrs. Iggulden, who lived in a wooden dwelling covered with tar, between two houses built of black shiny bricks, but consisting chiefly of bay-windows with elderly visitors in them looking through telescopes at the shipping, and telling the credulous it was brigs or schooners -- was it fair to expose Mrs. Iggulden to this gilt-spectacled lob-worm?

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

They had no fine scruples about bait of every kind, any more than the Scots have, and Barker loved a lob-worm, fished on the surface, in a dark night.

Introduction to the Compleat Angler Andrew Lang 1878

There is no loveliness about an oyster or a lob-worm; parasites, as a rule, are positively ugly, and they constitute a good half of all animal species.

Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871

Praying Mantis, the lob-worm, the caterpillar, and other favourite insects, have all been given in alternation and in sufficient quantities.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

That paradise of happiness, of which the lob-worm told us, is close at hand.

Aunt Judy's Tales Alfred Gatty 1841