Berkley Maxscent Flat Worm

[Dorado]

Any thoughts? Should I add them to my arsenal of drop shot plastics? I absolutely love the Maxscent General so I’m a firm believer already with their scented lineup.

[Spankey]

I have not fished them. A big Berkley fan though that fishes some of their products with confidence. Seems that you like their stuff and you probably have half the battle won. Try them and see how it goes. Good luck.

[Choporoz]

I've spent the last month working on drop shot almost exclusively because it was never a good presentation for me.  I worked every conceivable plastic I have.  The Berkley Maxscent Flat Worm outperformed every other bait by a wide margin.   Bubbling Shaker was a distant second, but their fragility made them far more expensive. I was surprised that roboworms weren't even in the running, though time of year might have been a factor in that.

[Bird]

Hmmm, I've been a diehard Roboworm thrower. 

I'll give em' a try.

[Spankey]

29 minutes ago, Bird said:

Hmmm, I've been a diehard Roboworm thrower. 

I'll give em' a try.

++ on the RoboWorms also. But I've been a big Berkley fan for many years. I'm always ready to throw a Power Worm of some type. Late this season I've been messing with some of the Max Scent stuff. Late this season I've been messing with the Flute Worm also. They were being discounted/discounted at a shop and seemed like a no brainier for me to try. Rigged shakey head and light Texas rigging them. They have produced bass, will fish both of them harder next season for sure.

[James Krack]

Berkley power worms are by far and away my #1 go to for bass. 4" worm with a charlie brewer slider hook 1/8-1/4oz. Been fishing them since they were introduced in the 90's. Probably wont catch many giants but I have a 6-7lb smallmouth on my wall that says it can happen. Caught her out of the Meramec back in 1999. You wont be able to keep great eating 1-2 pounders off your line. Camo, Pumpkin Seed, Motor Oil, and Junebug in that order

[WRB]

The term "flat worm" got my attention and looking at this worm it looks like a hand pour with a flat bottom. 

 The worm business has come full circle with flat bottom injection molded worms once associated with hand pours do to the open 1 sided mold. The flat top side of the hand pour  was always looked at as the belly and rigged flat side down.

Do you know that rigging a hand pour flat side up often gives a hand pour more swimming action and increases strikes?

Just thought you should know.

The Berkley Flat worm looks a lot like a sculpin worm and should work good.

Tom

[J Francho]

8 minutes ago, WRB said:

Do you know that rigging a hand pour flat side up often gives a hand pour more swimming action and increases strikes?

Just thought you should know.

Shhhh.  This is the internet, everyone will hear my secret! ?

 

Kidding side, flat side up seems to help the bait align itself in current, and wiggle without any help from the rod tip.

[WRB]

It's an old split shot trick that helps to reduce line twist. We started doing this to get more use out of torn worm noses and started catching more bass.

Tom

[JustJames]

16 hours ago, WRB said:

It's an old split shot trick that helps to reduce line twist. We started doing this to get more use out of torn worm noses and started catching more bass.

Tom

Do you really have to tell everyone everything?

 

I did that with roboworm too, I think it also help the worm to sink a little faster fish weightless with glide/swim action, also flat bottom on roboworm mostly dark brown, so you got different color. 

 

Now for flat bottom worm for drop shot, my favorite used to be Zoom Z drop, green weenie to be specific. So I think flat worm should work just fine plus you got scent to help. 

[WRB]

37 minutes ago, Bass_Fishing_Socal said:

Do you really have to tell everyone everything?

 

I did that with roboworm too, I think it also help the worm to sink a little faster weight fish weightless with glide/swim action, also flat bottom on roboworm mostly dark brown, so you got different color. 

 

Now for flat bottom worm for drop shot, my favorite used to be Zoom Z drop, green weenie to be specific. So I think flat worm should work just fine plus you got scent to help. 

It also the best way to rig a reaper.

This was such a old secret it's about time it see's the light of day. Don't think you will have a lot of competition on Canyon lake, although a local just won the US Open at Mead.

Tom

 

[Way north bass guy]

The Maxscent flatworm has been my number 1 best drop shot bait this year by far. The smallies up here hit them like they haven’t eaten in a month! They especially work well on any lake that has gobies, and it doesn’t seem to make too much of a difference in colour for me, but I usually stick to the green pumpkin or natural Shad colours the most. 

[Sam]

On 8/22/2019 at 4:32 PM, Dorado said:

Any thoughts? Should I add them to my arsenal of drop shot plastics? I absolutely love the Maxscent General so I’m a firm believer already with their scented lineup.

Dorado, if you have confidence in this bait by all means continue to use it.

 

Post pics of your successes! 

[HKBasser]

9 hours ago, WRB said:

The term "flat worm" got my attention and looking at this worm it looks like a hand pour with a flat bottom. 

 The worm business has come full circle with flat bottom injection molded worms once associated with hand pours do to the open 1 sided mold. The flat top side of the hand pour  was always looked at as the belly and rigged flat side down.

Do you know that rigging a hand pour flat side up often gives a hand pour more swimming action and increases strikes?

Just thought you should know.

The Berkley Flat worm looks a lot like a sculpin worm and should work good.

Tom

Yeah I never understood why people rig the flat side down on drop shot plastics, it eliminates the wobble.

[Maxximus Redneckus]

Reminds me of a zoom meathead .another sleeper i catch fish often with

[ryanerb]

On 10/21/2019 at 8:13 AM, WRB said:

The term "flat worm" got my attention and looking at this worm it looks like a hand pour with a flat bottom. 

 The worm business has come full circle with flat bottom injection molded worms once associated with hand pours do to the open 1 sided mold. The flat top side of the hand pour  was always looked at as the belly and rigged flat side down.

Do you know that rigging a hand pour flat side up often gives a hand pour more swimming action and increases strikes?

Just thought you should know.

The Berkley Flat worm looks a lot like a sculpin worm and should work good.

Tom

@WRB, is this what 'ike' is referring to about the flat side here? (see link https://www.bassmaster.com/blog/ike-mighty-shaky-head-part-1 )

 

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From Ike: And, always rig the worm with the flat side away from the hook point. That’ll make it slide, and if it slides on the way down you’ll get twice as many bites. This is really important, guys. Do it that way and you’ll catch a lot more fish.

 

I'm not sure when the 'glide' happens, I would think more glide with flat side down to give more resistance... Then again, you maybe after something other than 'glide' like Ike is talking about. 

 

Just trying to decipher if you and ike are on the same page, and or which page I wanna be on hahahah Just teasing!

[WRB]

Logic would say the flat side down with hook point coming out the round side and that is how 99% of anglers rig them. However when you rig a flat bottom worm flat side up where hook point is coming and watch it fall through the water column with only a hook like split shot rig or without additional weight the worm glides better instead of trying to roll over or spin.

I don't think it matters using a shaky head jig unless it's very light weight.

Tom

[ReggieT]

On 10/20/2019 at 7:16 PM, James Krack said:

Berkley power worms are by far and away my #1 go to for bass. 4" worm with a charlie brewer slider hook 1/8-1/4oz. Been fishing them since they were introduced in the 90's. Probably wont catch many giants but I have a 6-7lb smallmouth on my wall that says it can happen. Caught her out of the Meramec back in 1999. You wont be able to keep great eating 1-2 pounders off your line. Camo, Pumpkin Seed, Motor Oil, and Junebug in that order

Wouldn't by chance to have pic of that lure set-up do ya?

[F14A-B]

13 minutes ago, ReggieT said:

Wouldn't by chance to have pic of that lure set-up do ya?

This is a few years old, the member hasn’t posted since 2019. 

[MN Fisher]

11 minutes ago, alonerankin2 said:

This is a few years old, the member hasn’t posted since 2019. 

And he was only active for just under three weeks...another fly-by-nighter.

[ReggieT]

4 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

And he was only active for just under three weeks...another fly-by-nighter.

Hmm...np. I figured out. 

Appreciate you guys response.

 

BTW...which Zoom Speed Worm has proven more successful the old paddle tail or the Ultra Vibe? 

June bug is my color!