garden-worm

"If you wasn't such a miserable scrunched-up garden-worm of a man, I'd baste you with my sword-belt, Samson," whispered Nat, angrily.

Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story George Manville Fenn 1870

For my own part, I found a small garden-worm the best bait; but one of our clerks, a Mr. Hodgett, was skilful with the fly, and consequently used to catch his fish in a more scientific manner.

Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) Samuel Strickland 1835

And the manner of taking them is on the top of the water with a great lob or garden-worm, or rather two, which you are to fish with in a stream where the waters run somewhat quietly, for in a stream the bait will not be so well discerned.

The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation 1653