Digging for lugworms, Conwy Bay

Image: © Matt Harrop Taken: 6 May 2017

The historic town of Conwy is home to one of Wales’ largest recreational boating harbours. Conwy’s Harbour accommodates over 400 leisure craft moorings and pontoons across the estuary, houses a small fishing fleet and a number commercial ventures and provides users with easy access to both the Conwy River and the Irish Sea. The lugworm or sandworm is a large marine worm of the phylum Annelida. The castings, or curly worm like mounds of sand are a familiar sight on a beach at low tide but the worm itself is not seen except by those who dig the worm out of the sand for fishing bait. Although these days they are more often than not sucked out of the sand by a bicycle pump like contraption.

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