And of worms; the dunghill worm called a brandling I take to be best, being well scoured in moss or fennel; or he will bite at a worm that lies under cow-dung, with a bluish head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation] Reference

The species of worm used for vermicomposting has a number of common names: red worms, red wigglers, manure worms, or brandling worms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

Is very vigorous and strong for its size, delights in rapid streams, takes the same baits and flies as the Trout, but when the water is low and the weather hot, is exceedingly fond of the maggot, or brandling worm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Teesdale Angler] Reference

Ay: you may gape like a brace of guddled brandling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Krindlesyke] Reference

And note, that when the knot, which is near to the middle of the brandling, begins to swell, then he is sick; and, if he be not well looked to, is near dying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation] Reference

And for a brandling, he is usually found in an old dunghill, or some very rotten place near to it, but most usually in cow-dung, or hog's-dung, rather than horse-dung, which is somewhat too hot and dry for that worm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation] Reference

And when your worms, especially the brandling, begins to be sick and lose of his bigness, then you may recover him, by putting a little milk or cream, about a spoonful in a day, into them, by drops on the moss; and if there be added to the cream an egg beaten and boiled in it, then it will both fatten and preserve them long.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation] Reference

Create an e-mail alert for "paul brandling".    From Wordnik.com.  [ZDNET.com.au] Reference

Frog (of which you may find many in hay time) and of worms, the Dunghill worm, called a brandling, I take to be best, being well scowred in Moss or Fennel; and if you fish for a Pearch with a Minnow, then it is best to be alive, you sticking your hook through his back fin, and letting him swim up and down about mid-water, or a little lower, and you still keeping him to about that depth, by a Cork, which ought not to be a very light one: and the like way you are to fish for the Pearch with a small Frog, your hook being fastened through the skin of his leg, towards the upper part of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Compleat Angler] Reference