Here are three methods of how to catch nightcrawlers. Each method is fun for the whole family, and even if your youngsters aren’t that into fishing, I’ve never met a kid who doesn’t love a worm hunt.

Which global industry is worth almost £6bn? That’s correct, it’s worms. For fishing. And which country appears to have let the market wriggle through its fingers? Right again. We have.

But last year, as she cleaned her dipnet catch, the worm situation edged into horror movie territory. “There were so many in this one fish, I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at,” she said.