How To Fish Big Worms - New Video!

[Glenn]

Everything you need to know to fish big plastic worms - rigging, equipment, techniques, hooksets, and information you may have never heard before.

 

 

[roadwarrior]

[scaleface]

I use the smaller 3.0 to 4.0 hooks on larger worms too .  I dont know if I get more bites but I feel I get more hookups .

 

Your wife fights bass like shes done it before . I see some of the younger pros dancing  back and forth and waving their rod  around like an orchestra conductor .

[DroneFisher]

Very nice. I was just throwing a 6.75" worm the other day and to most that isn't big. However, it was a fatter version and was 2" bigger than I normally throw. Grande Bass Rattlesnake 4.75" vs. 6.75" the weight difference alone was huge. Still, I have yet to cath a fish on these bigger baits, even the fad baits such as the suicide duck and rat.

[the reel ess]

This is great. I recently bought some 6" ZMan Swimmerz and can't seem to find the right size/weight hook combo. I emailed them for a suggestion and they ignored me. A big soft swimbait rigging video would be good (unless there's already one and I'm missing it).

[WRB]

Fishing deep structure lakes with rock and sparse weed or wood cover I rarely peg the bullet and usually add a 8mm faceted tempered glass bead for added clicking sound.

Hook is realitive to the worm body diameter and hook gap size, about 2X with worm diameter is about right.

Glenn's rig using a 3/0 EWG hook has wider gap distance than a 4/0 straight shank round wide gap hook (Owner 5103) for example. 

Because I like to add a bead with a sliding sinker my retreive is also different, watching line for movement or stopping on the fall and rod position is the same as Glenn's. My retrieve usually a rod tip lift from 3 o'clock or paralell to the water surface to about 2 o'clock, about a 30 degree movement up words, stop and let the worm fall back down to the bottom on controlled slack, then shake it with my rod tip into slightly slack line to bounce the weight against the glass bead, then repeat the retrieve.

Any worm 9" to 13" is a big worm. My preference is straight tails for big bass and ribbon or curl tails for numbers of bass or night fishing, but use straight tails at night also.

Weight size I agree with Glenn, use as light a weight as you need to keep in contact with the worm. I use anywhere from 3/16 to 3/8 oz, rarely need a 1/2 oz. Line I like 14# FC.

Good vedio Glenn, keep up the good work. Keri knows how to hook set!

Tom

[geo g]

Thanks Glenn, another great informative video.

[Bankbeater]

Thanks! Good video!