brandling

plural brandlings

1. countableuncountableThe young or parr of the salmon, so named from its markings being, as it were, branded.
2. countableuncountableA small, red earthworm, Eisenia fetida, used for bait in freshwater fishing.

   And you also find another kind of worm called a brandling, which is striped and smells like an earwig, and which is very good bait for perch.

   1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, part 2, chapter 4

   Synonyms: compost worm, manure worm, panfish worm, red wiggler, redworm, tiger worm, trout worm

1. A surname.