This year I caught 99.9% of my bass using regular sized (five to seven and a half inches) plastic worms (Texas Rigged). Most of the time I caught most of the bass using five inch to seven inch worms. My main plastic worms were Yum five inch Yum Dinger and Berkley seven inch Power Worm Power Bait.
During the end of summer/early fall I picked up some Culprit 7.5" worms in Fire and Ice. I mostly picked them up because of the crazy looking color - I thought that color was nothing more than a gimmick and no way would a bass go after it. Well I went to my favorite state park and was bank fishing. I made a cast at a limb sticking up out in water and after four or five casts a bass ran off with the worm! I messed up though and lost it because I was messing around with my drag. But the important thing is - I found out bass will go after those Culprit worms.
Another thing I discovered - the Culprit worms I used were 7.5" long. This winter I've been buying more and more plastic worms and finally got to buying giant sized ones - ten inch and larger.
So this is my thinking - if the bass I go after will go after a 7.5" plastic worm, shouldn't they go after ten inch worms and twelve inch worms?
One thing I don't want to do is throw too big a lure. But I do want focus on catching large sized bass in 2014 and not small bass. I ordered four packs of plastic worms last week and they range in size from ten inch to fifteen inches.
So my questions - do you fish giant worms differently than regular sized worms? I Texas Rig my worms and usually cast it out, let it sink, pull the rod up, lower rod, reel in some slack, and repeat. Sometimes I will swim/reel in the worm too at different speeds. Can giant worms be fished the same or must they be fished slower or faster?
Can a one pound bass take a ten inch worm? What about twelve and fifteen inches?
Thanks
