Top Finesse Worms

[Outdoor Zack]

What is your favorite finesse worm brand for Texas-rigging?  Do you add a weight or rig it without one?

Also what color would you recommend for shallow, stained water with a rocky bottom?   

[Heron]

Excite Maximus worm

[eyedabassman]

Zoom,Netbait Fin. worm, Robo worm!

[kickerfish1]

Roboworm is one of the best on the market. They have tons of colors and several styles from straight tail to fat and 4 and 6 inch varieties. Great baits for drop shots, shakey heads, and other finesse apps.

[ww2farmer]

I like the Berkley Havoc Bottom Hopper, and the Yum Sharpshooter.

[primetime]

I am not picky when it comes to finesse worms...I usually use a zoom trick worm in 6" or 4" in Junebug, Motor Oil Red with gold flake, or Black and blue flake with chart tail for stained water.

I use watermelon and Baby Bass in clear water most of the time or salt and pepper if shad are in the lake or pond....

If you want a finesse worm that floats the Z Man finesse worms are awesome, not stiff like most floaters, and they make a nice purple color for stained water and green pumpkin works anywhere usually.

Some of my other favorite finesse worms are a 4" or 6" Curly tail worm-BPS Squirmin worm I stick to 5-6 colors total, also like a 4" Ring Worm, KVD Dream shot, but the Pro Senko is really good, or the BPS cut tail magnum worms in 6" black and blue...Sometimes just that little tail makes a difference but all finesse worms work good imo...I have a bunch that I am not sure what brand they are, I have done really well with that big bite Squirrel tail worm when they were on sale, for some reason fish hammered them....BPS makes a nice clone now. I plan on getting more, that was a good worm and I went through 2 packs in only a few trips.....Zoom is fine, they make a ton of good finesse stuff.

I usually do not use a weight but add a swivel about 12" up to avoid line twist on spinning gear, and mono or fluoro leader from braid...I also like to use a jighead instead of a bullet weight but a small 1/16-1/4 bullet is fine,or a small split shot...Depends on how far you want to cast but you really can't fish them wrong..Wacky rigging a trick worm on a circle hook is a great way to catch numbers....

[WRB]

Upton's Customs, Iovino and Roboworm worms for hand pours, finesse worms. Berkley, Assasin and Zoom and several others for injection molded soft plastics.

Sliding 3/16 to 3/8 oz brass painted bullet weights with glass bead for T-rig.

Nail weight rig, slip shot rig, drop shot for finesse presentations make up the majority of of my presentations. Punch rig if fishing heavy summer cover.

Prefer just enough weight to keep in contact with the soft plastic.

Off color water or low light/night; black or dark brown w/ blue neon vain or brown w/ orange belly and dark green w/ red, purple, black flake are good choices.

Tom

 

[I.rar]

 

I really like roboworm straight tails in bold bluegill or Aaron's magic. 

 

How do those iovino and Upton baits compare to roboworm? Do they develop that distinct smell like the robos do? 

2 hours ago, WRB said:

Upton's Customs, Iovino and Roboworm worms for hand pours, finesse worms. 

 

[Airman4754]

I don't T-rig finess worms, but my faves for 4" are Net Bait Finesse Worms and 7" are Kicker Fish Hightale Holeshot. 

I have a trust fund worth of Roboworms like everyone else on here and they work. 

[WRB]

2 hours ago, I.rar said:

 

I really like roboworm straight tails in bold bluegill or Aaron's magic. 

 

How do those iovino and Upton baits compare to roboworm? Do they develop that distinct smell like the robos do? 

Both Iovino and Upton's Customs are low production hand poured worms where Roboworms are robotic poured 10 at a time. Roboworm uses a proprietary liquid salt and both Iovino and Upton's use granular salt with light oil. Each offer different colors and shape worms. I use Upton's purple thunder in 6" straight tail for example, Iovino 6" in blue ghost and Robo in 6" bait ball for example.

Tom

2 hours ago, Mosster47 said:

I don't T-rig finess worms, but my faves for 4" are Net Bait Finesse Worms and 7" are Kicker Fish Hightale Holeshot. 

I have a trust fund worth of Roboworms like everyone else on here and they work. 

 

[Darren.]

6 hours ago, Outdoor Zack said:

What is your favorite finesse worm brand for Texas-rigging?  Do you add a weight or rig it without one?

Also what color would you recommend for shallow, stained water with a rocky bottom?   

Texas rigging usually means Zoom Trick worms
or Zoom Finesse worms, natural colors mostly,
like black, junebug, watermelon gold, greenp gold.

[bowhunter63]

Creme scoundrel in black fire tail or crawdad

[Outdoor Zack]

3 hours ago, Mosster47 said:

I don't T-rig finess worms, but my faves for 4" are Net Bait Finesse Worms and 7" are Kicker Fish Hightale Holeshot. 

I have a trust fund worth of Roboworms like everyone else on here and they work. 

How do you rig them then?

[Airman4754]

1 minute ago, Outdoor Zack said:

How do you rig them then?

I only drop shot or shakey head finess worms. 

 

[Outdoor Zack]

2 minutes ago, Mosster47 said:

I only drop shot or shakey head finess worms. 

 

Ok thanks

1 hour ago, Darren. said:

Texas rigging usually means Zoom Trick worms
or Zoom Finesse worms, natural colors mostly,
like black, junebug, watermelon gold, greenp gold.

What hook and weight (if any) do you think is good for the Zoom worms?

I only ask because I caught a nice size (3.5 or 4 lb.) bass on a "no-name" worm the other day and I want to stock up for the season.    

[Gundog]

I'll be trying the whole texas rigged finesse worm this year. I'm guessing light weights and light wire hooks so all the weight doesn't drag the worm down.

[Darren.]

16 minutes ago, Outdoor Zack said:

What hook and weight (if any) do you think is good for the Zoom worms?

I only ask because I caught a nice size (3.5 or 4 lb.) bass on a "no-name" worm the other day and I want to stock up for the season.    

I like these in 2/0 and 3/0

http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Gamakatsu_OShaugnessy_Bend_Offset_Worm_Hook_6pk/descpage-GOSW.html

[WRB]

Some confusion surrounds "Texas" rig. To me and some others it means more than how a hook is placed into a soft plastic worm. Texas rig combines a sliding bullet weight and weedless hooking a worm using a plastic worm hook, straight or off set style.

You can T-rig with 1/8 oz bullet weight, 1/0 size worm hook and use a 4 1/2" worm, 6 to 8 lb line and call it finesse.

Tom

 

[Catt]

7 hours ago, ww2farmer said:

I like the Berkley Havoc Bottom Hopper, and the Yum Sharpshooter.

Bottom Hopper was designed by Larry Nixon!

Kind of hard to argue with him!

I use 1/64-1/4 weights

[Fishes in trees]

I haven't texas rigged a finesse worm for more than a decade. Finesse worms/shakey worms are fished on some sort of jig head, almost always with the bait "skin hooked" - almost tex-posed - but not quite.    

As for the baits, I carry many different colors of Zoom Trick worms,  I carry most of the colors of the Netbait version of the trick worm, in both the regular size and the bubba sizes.  Berkley makes or used to make Powerbait shaky worms. which I use sometimes.  

[Bluebasser86]

Zoom or Netbait. 

[Fishinthefish]

Gary Yam, Biospawn 

[Master Bait'r]

Went through the list and nobody named my favorite!  

 

Ive be got Uptons and Roboworms coming out my ears and still nothing and I mean NOTHING touches the Lunker City Slug-Go SS for finesse worm duty.  It's got the same front end as a 3.5" slug-go so it jumps around like crazy, and a super light whippy tail that just flutters and whips like you wouldn't believe.  I t-rig them w/o weight and can literally walk the dog with them subsurface.  Truly unbelievable worm and I am never without them.  Ever.  They get CRUSHED.  Also LC pours their own, will make you special mixes, their plastics are very durable and they're awesome people to boot!! One more thing- you get like 15 I'm a bag so they are a phenomenal value too!!  You can't lose!

[WIGuide]

Berkley Bottom Hopper Jr's, Yum Sharpshooter, and one that's a little different the Missile Baits Fuse 4.4.

[lo n slo]

my home waters are predominantly spotted bass with largemouth mixed in. i started throwing a Zoom Shakey Tail when conditions got tough (late summer/very early fall). they're longish and skinny with an exagerated curly tail. a 3/16 bullet and 3.0 offset works for me in 10-25 fow. the spots love them but i've caught some 4+ largemouth on them too. green pumpkin with a chartreuse dipped tail is my choice for color. catch one for me.