Where did the idea originate to use worms as fishing bait?

Question

I mean, i'v never seen a random worm in water, how did this idea originate?

Answer 1

Perhaps you've never seen a "random worm in the water" because the fish have eaten them.

It seems logical that this 'idea' of fish taking to worms, originated centuries ago when fish were caught by hand or with spears. When the fish were opened or cleaned, worms were found in their stomachs before the worms were digested.

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Okay ....so I got a thumbs down for logic. Here's what the Encyclopaedia Brittanica has to say, and a few other sites ---- THIS should answer your question:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Yjd5EQG...

http://bait-fisherman.com/

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/b...

LAG

Answer 2

worms are such a good bait thats why youve never seen any....

water tides move up and take over ground where they live and instead of drowning they come out of the ground seeking dry land

Trick #115 always use worms close to shore on a raising waterline

Answer 3

A long, long time ago there was a guy named - uh, well, he didn't have a name. And one day he wiggled his finger at a fish in a lake and it bit him really hard. All the other guys from his little tribe, who also didn't have names, came over and tried it. Their fingers got bitten too. For the next few hundred years this is the way these guys caught fish. Then one day one of them found a worm on the ground and instead of eating it, he held it over the water. The fish bit it and he grabbed it with his other hand.

Thus was born fishing.