Trick worm

[the reel ess]

About the Trick Worm by Zoom, don't be afraid of the bubble gum color when using the "floating worm" or wacky rigged presentations. It looks like a gimmick, but I can assure you it's not. For me, it and the limetreuse color outfish all the other colors by a long shot. If you go into WalMart in the spring, bubble gum is the color they'll be out of. They won't even stock limetreuse. It's one of the best kept secrets in bass fishing. I've been so many times to find the store is out of bubble gum color that I just order them online now. This color works in the Super Fluke as well.

[Dorado]

Favorite way to fish a Trick Worm. Springtime - Early Summer. Weightless, weedless on a Gama Offset G-Lock 4/0 hook. Candy Bug color with the tail dipped in chartreuse Spike-It. 
 

Fish it at night where they’re shallow oftentimes. Walk the bank and throw it parallel to shore. You will get a lot of bites on the initial fall. 
 

Then I’ll let it sit for about 5 seconds and slowly bring it back with a twitch, twitch,  pause - repeat cadence - exactly like a fluke. 
 

I’ve had some explosive strikes at my feet using this technique. Exciting way to fish a plastic worm

[Choporoz]

https://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-videos/trick-worm-floating-worm.html

[BassNJake]

1 hour ago, the reel ess said:

About the Trick Worm by Zoom, don't be afraid of the bubble gum color when using the "floating worm" or wacky rigged presentations. It looks like a gimmick, but I can assure you it's not. For me, it and the limetreuse color outfish all the other colors by a long shot. If you go into WalMart in the spring, bubble gum is the color they'll be out of. They won't even stock limetreuse. It's one of the best kept secrets in bass fishing. I've been so many times to find the store is out of bubble gum color that I just order them online now. This color works in the Super Fluke as well.

When I first moved to TN, I donated a bunch of money to guys throwing pink trick worms on shakey heads.

Now the big thing is using pink flukes on a damiki rig

[BassNJake]

This guy does a couple different tests with the original, super salty and magnum trick worms.

Quite a different response when the bait is on a shakey head

 

 

[N Florida Mike]

4 hours ago, the reel ess said:

This color works in the Super Fluke as well.

I caught a 7 3/4 pounder  on a bubblegum fluke.

[TnRiver46]

10 hours ago, Choporoz said:

Good advice.....and while you're at it, take a few more minutes to test all your jerkbaits, too -- winter's the time to get them sporting the attitude you want....just don't forget that water temp is a factor

I was tossing a rapala husky jerk off the bank the other day. The nose was pointing slightly down but it was suspending perfectly for as long as you would leave it there . 

[michael1]

Had a rookie question about the trick worm. One side of it is kind of flat. When T-Rigging it where should the flat side of it be compared to the hook? If you were to wacky rig it would you want the flat side facing up the sky or down?

[LCG]

5 hours ago, michael1 said:

Had a rookie question about the trick worm. One side of it is kind of flat. When T-Rigging it where should the flat side of it be compared to the hook? If you were to wacky rig it would you want the flat side facing up the sky or down?

Flat side down for slower fall and better presentation. 

[SpinLight]

I use soft plastics mostly, and am a Trick worm fan, too. T-rigged weighted, weightless or shaky head. BTW, some of the other old timers will remember the Original Crème worm, which the Trick worm greatly resembles, from the early 60's. The C worm and Zoom's Finesse worm are similar in size and shape.

 

The C worm's plastic was a little more firm, too. You can still get the Crème worm today. The Crème worm was one of the first "purple worms". I caught a bunch of stream smallmouth back then with a weightless purple Crème worm, strung on an exposed straight shank No. 1 Aberdeen light-wire gold hook.

[ooga0341]

My favorite colors are Black w red flake, watermelon w chart tail, black, black grape, and green pumpkin.

I fish them on picasso shakey heads, and weightless on 2/0 hook.

[Chance_Taker4]

On 1/21/2020 at 12:25 PM, Choporoz said:

Yes.  And no.

 

 

I don't even know what a trick worm is any more.  Used to be that I could be relatively sure you were talking about a skinny Zoom worm with not a lot going on at the tail...maybe a little bulge... around six and a half inches long....didn't float...but the tail sank slowly and wiggled on the way down.  I fished them on shakey heads and weightless mostly, though sometimes weighted wacky.  Nowadays, you can find a worm any thickness from about 1/8" up to probably 3/4"....and any length from 2 1/2" to over 12".  So, there's litterally dozens (hundreds?) of skinny worms between 5 1/2 and 8 inches....some float, some don't...some are neutrally buoyant...so, the answer is that you can get a worm that will do whatever you want in all likelihood.  

This is so true. The term "Trick Worm" is now used for any work that resembles the Zoom Trick Worm. It is the same for stick baits how everyone calls them "Senkos"

 

 

For the OP. Yes the "Original" Trick Worm will float the "Super Salt" will not.