Creme

[Mobasser]

The first plastic worm I ever used was the Creme Scoundrel. My brother and I bought a small card with three 6" black Scoundrel worms at a hardware store in Chillicothe Mo.                                          The owner of the store had a reputation as a good bass angler. He stocked a small area in the back of the store with some fishing tackle.                                    Above the tackle area was a dusty mount, a bass of around 8lbs. He had caught that fish from a large farm pond, on a day when it was spitting snow, on a Scoundrel worm.                     I still remember what he told us, over 50 yrs ago. " Boys, you need to learn to use this one. On a daily basis, these will catch more fish for you than anything else". His only instructions were to fish them slowly, and on the bottom.               We started out nose hooking the worms, and we caught bass this way. At some point, my brother read about the Texas rig, and ordered some proper hooks and bullet weights, which changed our fishing completely. I've been a T rig worm fisherman ever since.                          I imagine many here at BR had an experience similar to mine. Was the Creme Scoundrel your first plastic worm?

[roadwarrior]

My first experience with any artificial bait was with a Creme Purple Worm at

Table Rock Lake in 1958 (a year before it was officially opened).  In those days

it was "catch & keep" and the limit was 15. We had five in the family including

mom and little sister who did not fish. We kept 75 Kentucky bass although my

dad thought they were largemouth at the time. 

 

[Catt]

Some where back in the 60s my dad rented a wooden boat that had slats nailed across the ribs for a floor. I noticed what turned out to be a Scoundrel worm (black with two yellow stripes).

 

Dad rigged it weedless for me & I cast it out & let it sit while eating a sandwich. I noticed a whole row of pencil reeds laying over in a stright line & thought what the hell. Dad screamed set hook, I did & caught a nice 2# chunk.

 

50+ yrs later still chunking worms ?

[scaleface]

The first worm I caught bass with was the red 6 inch  Creme pre-rigged with two hooks and the little propeller . The first Texas rig fish came on a black  Mister Twister twin tail grub with a black skirt between the hook and weight . I was getting skunked that day and another bass angler I met was catching bass on a jig n pig . I didnt have any jigs or pork  so I improvised . I became a much better angler that day .

[A-Jay]

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

The first worm I caught bass with was the red 6 inch  Creme pre-rigged with two hooks and the little propeller . 

Me Too ~ 

It was the 'natural worm' night crawler looking deal.

Kept getting hung up fishing from shore though.

So I got a pack of un-rigged worms and threaded my first

'Texas Rigged' weightless worm.

Don't remember which hook I used, just that it was most likely way too small.

Worked better at not getting hung up but twisted the living H  E  Double Hockey sticks out of 

the 8 lb Purple Stren I had on my Ted Williams Sears & Roebuck Spin-casting rig.

Pickerel kept biting me off in the lily pads too.

I was Train Wreck !

A-Jay

 

 

[Jaderose]

6 hours ago, scaleface said:

The first worm I caught bass with was the red 6 inch  Creme pre-rigged with two hooks and the little propeller . The first Texas rig fish came on a black  Mister Twister twin tail grub with a black skirt between the hook and weight . I was getting skunked that day and another bass angler I met was catching bass on a jig n pig . I didnt have any jigs or pork  so I improvised . I became a much better angler that day .

Yep.  Using a good Ol Johnson Century 100B on who knows what kinda rod.  I bet it wasn't 5 ft long

[scaleface]

16 minutes ago, Jaderose said:

Yep.  Using a good Ol Johnson Century 100B on who knows what kinda rod.  I bet it wasn't 5 ft long

I had three of those reels . I used them upside down on spinning rods . An old man that I bowled with , that was all he used and his were getting in poor shape so I gave them to him . He used them upside down on fly rods  . I took him fishing a couple of times . Hes not able to go anymore . I bet he has some Creme worms in his tackle box .

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[Mbirdsley]

I’m late to the party.  My first success from any plastic lure was a pumpkin colored berkly gulp crawler in 2012.  3 years after graduating from college and had just gotten back into fishing after a 6-8 year hiatus. At this time I wasn’t that far removed from being only a live bait fishermen.  
 

Started hanging out with outdoorsmen from work and started wading rivers.  I was using mepps  spinners and rapala’s dead summer.  They were catching 6 nice fish to my 1 dink.  Tried the gulp crawler and changed my life.  Actually, I used a gulp crawler exclusively for about 6 months. 

[Bankbeater]

My first bass on a worm came on a 6" purple Scoundrel on a Texas rig.  We were fishing in standing timber in about 10' of water.  I felt that tap, tap, tap on the end of my line and set the hook.

[Str8BraidPowa]

My first luck with bass fishing was the late 90's early 2000's. for me it was a 6" zoom lizard in cherry seed red on a T-rig. Fast forward to this summer one of my nicer fish was on a 8" zoom solid black magnum lizard. Love to hear the history lessons, keep them coming guys!

[Spankey]

Mine also were bought at the hardware store. Could walk or ride my bike there in the 60’s. They had Creme, Mr. Twister and another brand that I can’t remember but they were sold on a card that was wrapped. May have been Mann’s but I don’t think so. 
 

I never got into the ones with a pre-rig and spinner. Use to nose hook them with a split shot. Splitshot rig has been around longer than would have you believe. Black, natural and grape is what I fished. Use to fish an old quarry pit. Can’t say that I ever caught a giant there. If you got one 15” he was a giant if I can recall. Would have like to had a picture from back then with a few of those quarry fish. The old farmers wife would take a few and cook them up. Nobody hardly fished the place, had the place to ourselves. 
 

Great post. Jogged a few good memories. 

[Big Rick]

My first was on a Mann's Jelly Worm in grape. It smelled so good I wanted to eat it instead of fish it. I caught a ton of fish on those good smelling worms. 

[Team9nine]

Kinda', sorta', but not really - lol. My first introduction to Texas-rigged worms for bass was in 1976, Lake of the Ozarks on a summer vacation using spincast outfits and Knight Tube worms along with a package of purple with white ct 6" worms we got in our B.A.S.S. renewal pkg. My Dad lost a big bass when it jumped and broke his line, and the bass bug was set in me from then on. We did end up catching several other bass on those worms, but never hooked that big one again.

 

Ironically, Creme ended up buying Knight Mfg. many years later, and the Tube Worm with it. I believe they are now discontinued from the lineup.

[papajoe222]

Not only was it my first, but they've had a spot in my tackle bag for the last 50 years.

[GTN-NY]

I still have and use cream worms. I just ordered them by the 100ct right from creme

[DitchPanda]

My first go to soft plastic that I relied on heavily for bass was the cheap 4in renegade worms from.wal mart in motor oil color. I remember them being less than $2 for a pack of 20 or 25 back in the early 2000s .

[Big Hands]

The first bass I ever hooked was on one of these in the early 70's. I was fishing at a local golf course lake in the suburbs of Los Angeles. There was a clearing in the reeds about 10 feet wide. I was walking by (taking a break from bluegill fishing) and saw a HUGE bass sunning just a few feet from shore. I ran back to my tackle box and tied on that Creme Scoundrel propeller worm and and ran back to the clearing in the reeds, but the fish was gone.

 

I flung the worm out in the water about ten feet from shore because I didn't know what else to do. As it sat there suspended, the mammoth bass emerged from the tules and slowly swam over to a position just behind the worm and sat there for several seconds. All of a sudden her gills started to flutter and her mouth slowly opened a little.

 

The worm started to vibrate, and then, in a flash, she sucked in so fast, I couldn't believe my eyes. I yanked back on the rod, and I had an angry bass thrashing on the end of a very short leash. The battle lasted about 15 seconds, and she broke both the line, and my heart, but my love of all things fishing immediately had a much narrower focus .

 

I still love all kinds of fishing, but bass fishing is my true passion above all others.

[zell_pop1]

5 hours ago, Big Hands said:

The first bass I ever hooked was on one of these in the early 70's. I was fishing at a local golf course lake in the suburbs of Los Angeles. There was a clearing in the reeds about 10 feet wide. I was walking by (taking a break from bluegill fishing) and saw a HUGE bass sunning just a few feet from shore. I ran back to my tackle box and tied on that Creme Scoundrel propeller worm and and ran back to the clearing in the reeds, but the fish was gone.

 

I flung the worm out in the water about ten feet from shore because I didn't know what else to do. As it sat there suspended, the mammoth bass emerged from the tules and slowly swam over to a position just behind the worm and sat there for several seconds. All of a sudden her gills started to flutter and her mouth slowly opened a little.

 

The worm started to vibrate, and then, in a flash, she sucked in so fast, I couldn't believe my eyes. I yanked back on the rod, and I had an angry bass thrashing on the end of a very short leash. The battle lasted about 15 seconds, and she broke both the line, and my heart, but my love of all things fishing immediately had a much narrower focus .

 

I still love all kinds of fishing, but bass fishing is my true passion above all others.

I probably still have some of those night crawler pre rigged Creme worms and also the pre rigged purple white stripe worm(not sure who made it)had them both in the 80s as a kid. Then I upgraded to the purple Snag Proof worm, and have a few of them around too. Creme is still around, or the name is anyway I have some of their senko imatation from Walmart which are $1 for 5 worms.

[SC53]

Yep, mid 60’s for me. Creme purple worm on a 1/0 hook (non weedless) Mitchell 300 with 12# Ande line. Fished the canals of South Florida. 

[river-rat]

The first bass I caught on a plastic worm was a Creme Scoundrel with the spinner harness in 1962 when I was 10 years old. I caught several bass that day and I was then doing every odd job in the neighborhood to earn money to buy more. 

 

 

[scaleface]

I bought my first pre-rigged Creme worm from the neighborhood grocery store . 

[WRB]

Creme was my 1st "rubber" worm back in 1957. The Creme worm came rigged with 2 hooks, propeller and beads in natural crawler brown color. 2 old anglers gave me a couple of packages and instructed to clip on a small bell sinker on the a swivel clip and drag on the bottom and pointed over there across the bay. Magic!

I stopped using Creme worms when Mr Twister curl tails worms came out followed by hand pours. Creme worms seem like a tent peg by comparison.

Tom

[MGF]

I guess they were my first too...in the 60's.. My father used to tie them with 2 or 3 hooks in them and the line threaded through the worm. We fished them unweighted and caught an awful lot of bass.

 

I bought a couple bags of Scoundrels this past spring and tied some up.

[Captain Phil]

Creme were the first plastic worms I can remember.  They changed bass fishing and the tackle used by most bass anglers. Before plastic worms, bass lures needed to be heavy because casting reels couldn't cast anything less than 1/2 oz.   To cast light plastic worms, anglers switched to spinning reels like the Mitchell 300.  Mono line came out about the same time.  Back then, we fished mostly from the bank.  A Mitchell 300 loaded with thin mono could cast a weightless worm a good distance.  I caught my first sizable bass on a rigged natural color Creme worm with the spinner in the front.  That fish weighed about 3 pounds.  I was so proud of it I put it in our home freezer for 6 months, something my mother wasn't too keen on.  Later a friend discovered purple worms and we switched colors. Mann's Jelly worms were all the rage at one time.

 

When tournaments first started, we would buy Creme Scoundrels in the 100 bag.  I still use them today.  I am very found of the grape fire tail color  It's one of the best swimming worms out there.  Over the years, many plastic worm brands have come and go.  Creme worms are still among the best.

 

 

 

 

[bowhunter63]

Mine was a black scoundrel t rigged. Started worm fishing a lot after that. But went to culprit tequila shad after that. Plastic worms still slay em today.