Plastic Worms.

[Sir Bert]

What brand of plastic worms should I use and what colors seem to work the best.

[Sam]

Any brand you want for plastic worms.

Zoom, Berkley, Culprit, Creme, Robo, Senkos and others are fine.

Basic colors include:

Clear Water - Watermealon with Black Flake.

STained Water - Green Pumpkin with Black Flake or Mocassin Blue.

Dirty Water - Junebug, Black and Black Grape.

Other colors can be productive, too. It really depends on the bait fish and water clarity.

Finding the right color and plastic is part of finding the "pattern" which is your challenge. Find the pattern and catch fish. Don't find the pattern and get skunked.

There are so many colors in the marketplace you can put yourself in a mental hospital trying to purchase the exact color. Plust the fact that Zoom makes colors that are not sold in the USA but are shipped to South Africa and Japan.

Then you need to get some MegaStrike to put on your baits. You can use JJs Magic to add some color to the tips and apendages of your plastics.

And what you can do just goes rolling along with platics.

[Hooligan]

Quite simply, there is no single answer to either of your questions. I disagree with Sam, for instance, on color. My absolute best color in clear water is a crawdad brown, followed by green pumpkin blue flake. In stained water, not green from algae, mind you; I fish redbug and bamabug, even junebug. In green tinted water, I fish a lot of dark melon or green pumpkin red. I may fish black blue at any time on any water color, too.

Brands range from Archer to Zoom. I've done very well the past couple years on the Thumper, but not everyone likes it. Pick something that, using the knowledge you have with other colors that work, matches a successful color in your area, and go fish.

[Sam]

Hooigan, you are in Nebraska and I am in Virginia.

What I should have clarified is that those colors work well in Virginia but other colors will work better in specific areas.

I may try your colors to see how they work in Virginia.

Thanks for letting me know of your favorite colors.

[roadwarrior]

Try a variety of worms and you will find the ones you like.

Bite It, Rage Tail and GYCB are places to start.

Three colors that usually work anywhere are green pumpkin, watermelon

with black flakes and black & blue.

[MCS]

Zoom trick worms are good weightless floating, stays up off the bottom, culprit make a great ribbon tail and senko sink on the fall very well and can be worked deeper. Color is up to you to figure out what works in your area. Red Shad works well here in Florida, junebug and shad/baitfish are good too. some work better than others in each pond I fish.

[Raul]

There´s no "right" answer to your question, but based on my experience after more than 3 decades of fishing: keep it really simple or you´ll end up with a bunch of baits and most of them will never touch the water, the worm I fish the most is a the 6- 8 in straight tail worm, there´s a bunch of brands from where to choose so pick the brand you want ( Mann´s Jelly Worm, Zoom´s Trickworm, Yum´s Jitterworm, just to name a few ), then is the ribbontail worm, I fish them a lot less than the straight tail, as before, choose whatever you like ( Zoom SS U- Tale, Culprit Ribbontail, Yum Ribbontail, etc ), after those two follows the stickbait ( senko type ) ( Yum Dinger, GYCB Senko, etc ), with those three types you are covered for most situations most of the times. As for colors, keep it simple, watermelon & green pumpkin seem to work practically anywhere.

[AK-Jax86]

I use zoom trick worms and senkos mainly. Colors vary depending on the water clarity and time.

[nickw234]

I throw a Zoom Old Monster in either black or watermelon seed. Going to give culprit worms a try here soon.

[Sir Bert]

Thank you all very much. I think I'm going to try various types of zoom plastic worms. I will let y'all know how it goes.

[guitarkid]

zoom is a great plastics company, you really can't go wrong with anything from them.

-gk