Plastic Worms

[Brendan Duffy]

Hey guys what is your favorite way to fish worms? Texas weightless? Shaky head? Wacky? Weighted? Carolina?

[Long Mike]

Yes.

[5bass]

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[broncoboxer]

For heavy cover, I love weightless soft plastics such as a 5 to 6 inch Senko Texas rigged weightless with the barb skin-hooked.  Fat Ikas are great in these conditions, too.  If you're careful you can work them through some hairy stuff (weeds, lay downs, slop, etc.).

Lately I've been getting into Carolina rigging.  Soon, I'll have to try a drop shot rig...

[chubaka]

If im throwing it into cover i will fish it texas, but if there isnt that much weeds then i would go wacky.

[GRiver]

Texas wieghted or not depends on the cover...then shakey head....that's about it...

[J Francho]

Be specific....depends on the style worm.

[BenoBreath]

Slipshotting a T-rigged, or nose hooked finesse worm.

(depends on the cover.)

BB

[midnighthrasher]

Texas...... always texas but next year im gonna try c-rig

[bigtimfish]

All of the above with the exception of wacky. I never got a feel for or comfort zone doing that.

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Be specific....depends on the style worm.

x2, and my favorite way is whichever way the fish are eating it best on a particular day.

[Catt]

Texas Rigged 95% of the time

[roadwarrior]

Senkos weightless, big worms T-rig, smaller worms

split shot and most soft plastics occasionally on an

Evolution Shake2 jig head.

8-)

[bassfisherjk]

Texas rigged,either weightless or with a 1/16 oz. worm wt.

[bassin is addicting]

depends on the style/type of worm

4" senko- wacky

all others (zoom u-tail, anaconda, trick worm, etc..)usually weightless texas rigged

[KYntucky Warmouth]

Yes.

[brushhoggin]

shakey head has been the most productive method for plastics for me, they really seem to love the action.however i do feel more confident in setting the hook with a t-rig.

[RoLo]

I fish many different plastic worms and use many different presentations.

In all honesty, my favorite plastic worm can change four times in one day.

My favorite worm is the 'worm type' & 'delivery technique' that I believe is best for the moment.

If the question were: "Which worm has put the most bass in your boat?",

I'd have to say the Gambler Big Stick (shadow blue glitter) on an Owner Type-Z Head (3/16oz x 3/0 hook).

Bottom Crawl using a "double-twitch/3-sec pause" retrieve, until the lure is out of the strike zone

Roger

[tholmes]

Texas Rigged 95% of the time

Yep. Either weightless or weighted.

The other 5% of the time it's Carolina rigged.

Tom

[.ghoti.]

I fish a few specific worms, almost always weighted in some way.

Berkley Power Worms; 7", T-rigged, 3/0 offset worm hook, Ultra Steel weight, pegged with a rubber bobber stopper. Weight determined by depth and conditions. This rig has accounted for more bass than any other over many years.

Berkley Power Worms; 10", T-rigged, bigger hook and weight. I usually fish this worm deep and slow.

Rage Tail Ananconda; same rig and conditions as the 10" Power worm. Haven't caught as many fish on this worm, but the ones I've caught have all been good ones.

GYCB Big Kahuna Cut-Tail worm; T-rigged, 5/0 EWG hook, 1/16oz Ultra Steel weight, pegged. A heavy salted worm that requires less weight. One of my go-to baits. If I were forced to fish only two worms, this would be one of them. It works in shallow cover or deeper structure. In deeper water, I will loosen up the pegging, leaving about 1/16" of slack between the weight and the worm. This gives this rather straight bait an erratic fall.

This is also one worm I will fish weightless, with a large, bright colored bead pegged to it's head. I fish it like a fluke, or jerkbait, in shallow weeds. Very productive sometimes.

Stike King 3X worm. Now called Elaztech. I fish these worms on Tru Tungsten Iaconelli jigheads. These jigheads have an unusual bend right behind the head that keeps the very stretchy 3X material in place better than any other hook or jig I've found. Probably my number one bait the last two years. It's a worm rig, a swimming rig and a shakey rig, all in one.

Yum Big Show Paddle worm, 10", T-rigged. Just discovered this worm earlier this year. I've done very well with it. It has produced shallow, in cover, and deeper on structure. Very versatile bait. Best fished very slowly. The long, thin, segmented tail section has a lot of movement when twitched slowly along the bottom.

Zoom Trick worms and Finesse worms. My use of these worms has evolved to two specific rigs. A Charlie brewer slider head is one. I use the one that has the weight flattened, perpendicular to the plane of the hook. The 1/16oz size gives a nice glide to the trick worm. I fish this almost constantly moving, with a very subtle lift and drop of the rod tip. I'm trying to swim it right above the bottom, so I will occasionally let it glide to the bottom to ensure that I'm still in the zone.

I use a Gamakatsu Wacky jighead for the trick worms. I fish this rig on the edges of weeds and wood. It hangs up easily in either, so I'm staying outside the cover. It does do well in rocks. The flattened head rarely hangs in rocks.

Those are my proven rigs. I'm confident I can catch fish just about anywhere, anytime with one, or more, of these.

I still experiment quite a bit. I use a C-rig occasionally with a worm. Ditto a split-shot or mojo rig; a light weight C-rig in my opinion. These rigs are not big producers for me. A lot of people use a c-rig with success; I'm not one of them. A c-rig seems to me to be a search tool, and I do a lot better with a crankbait or spinnerbait for searching.

I try a worm on a drop-shot rig every now and then. This is one technique I do not have a handle on. All I ever get on it is the occasional dink. I guess I'm drop-shot challenged. Haven't completely given up on it, but I have to have been skunked on everything else before resorting to this rig. Probably why I can't seem to "get" it.

Weightless worming, with the exception of the Big Kahuna, has also been a great producer of dinks for me.

Everybody has there own favorite colors. Most of the time it really doesn't matter. I tend to use darker colors for dingy or deep water. Lighter colors for shallow and/or clear water.

[J Francho]

Rage Tail Ananconda; same rig and conditions as the 10" Power worm. Haven't caught as many fish on this worm, but the ones I've caught have all been good ones.

Put that Annie on an Owner 6/0 weighted Beast hook, fish like a gigantic grub.

[.ghoti.]

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Put that Annie on an Owner 6/0 weighted Beast hook, fish like a gigantic grub.

Now that sounds like a good idea.

[Bankbeater]

T-Rig 99% of the time.

[roadwarrior]

Put that Annie on an Owner 6/0 weighted Beast hook, fish like a gigantic grub.

Does that mean a steady retrieve just off the bottom?

[ABLE2DISABLE1]

Have you ever taken a 10inch worm and put a nail in it,if not try it you might like it on ten pound test w/spinning rod.1/4 with blade combo.