Plastic Worms for the 2021 Season

[Fishes in trees]

I carry a bunch of plastic - not real sure how much, wouldn't be surprised if it was 40 pounds or so.

I like options.  No clue what I'll carry this year, year hasn't started yet.

 

Last year I carried :   A bunch of a few colors of Berkley 10 " power worms, mostly blue fleck & pumpkin, then maybe a dozen other bags of different colors with maybe 3 to 7 baits in each bag.

 

I carried a gallon zip lock bag of tubes - various colors & never got them wet last year.   I carried a gallon zip lock bag of Brush Hogs - 90% of the time I threw green pumpkin/orange glitter, but it made me feel good to carry an assortment of colors.   I brought a gallon zip lock bag of the Berkley Power Hawgs - never got. them wet last year.  A gallon zip lock bag of regular size trick worms (Zoom) and a similar size bag of the Magnum trick worm, and a similar size bag of different brands of worms similar to trick worms.

Pretty sure there was a bag of lizards and a bag of the YUM Zellemanders.  I like the ZOOM magnum finesse worms, so I had a gallon zip lock bag of those, in addition to another zip lock bag of 5" stick worms.    Senkos are packaged in their own kit, bait & hooks & o-rings all in their own canvas bag.

 

Finesse worms get their medium size canvas bag with an assortment of Brewer, Zoom, Netbait & Powerbait finesse worms.   A dozen or so different colors of Chompers are in a different canvas bag, these go in the fishing truck, I don't think they made it to the boat very often last year.

 

Drop shot baits - I keep a zip lock bag of finesse drop shot baits, bubba size drop shot baits that I nose hook and bubba size baits that I tx rig.  There is a zip lock bag of craw imitations and a zip lock bag of Beavers & different companies imitation of Beavers.   Paddle Tail worms get their own canvas bags as do Sluggos & other sluggo imitations.   

 

All Biffle Bug stuff is in a separate canvas bag - hooks, weights, 20 or 30 assorted bags of Larew & Zoom craw imitations.   Then there is what I call the day box - recently purchased soft plastics that I haven't assigned a permanent home yet.   I'm pretty certain that I've forgotten a kit or 2 or 3.

Like I lead off with - I carry a lot of soft plastics.  If it is a color that I like, I'll have several bags.   Should I run into  someone who has a color that I don't have, maybe they might trade so I have lots of spares so that if I feel like trading, I can.

 

 

[OkobojiEagle]

This year MaxScent will be STRONGLY represented in my small soft plastic bait selection.

 

oe

[PhishLI]

These are coming today in watermelon seed. Getting rigged on a shakey head.

https://grandelures.com/collections/5-airtail-rattler

[roadwarrior]

I don't know which came first or which is a knockoff:

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Daiwa_Yamamoto_Neko_Macho_Worm/descpage-DYNM.html

Can be fished weightless or on a drop shot, too.

[optimator]

17 hours ago, WRB said:

Yamamoto 5” Daiwa FAT Neko worm.

Tom

 

48 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

I don't know which came first or which is a knockoff:

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Daiwa_Yamamoto_Neko_Macho_Worm/descpage-DYNM.html

Can be fished weightless or on a drop shot, too.

I really need to try these.... 

[Big Swimbait]

1 hour ago, OkobojiEagle said:

This year MaxScent will be STRONGLY represented in my small soft plastic bait selection.

 

oe

Agreed. I love The General. When the hook end gets torn up, cut it in half for the Ned.

[padon]

1 hour ago, PhishLI said:

These are coming today in watermelon seed. Getting rigged on a shakey head.

https://grandelures.com/collections/5-airtail-rattler

great worm. i like the longer thinner wigglers too. only problem i have with the rattlers is they are thick and hard to get a good hookset with a spinning rod. i throw them on a medium heayt casting rod. your experience may be different.

[PhishLI]

33 minutes ago, padon said:

great worm. i like the longer thinner wigglers too. only problem i have with the rattlers is they are thick and hard to get a good hookset with a spinning rod. i throw them on a medium heayt casting rod. your experience may be different.

They just came in. They're totally buoyant in my cold water sink test. Weight is 8 grams without a hook, so they'll fly on MH casting gear. Hopefully I'll chuck 'em later. Deep freeze heading our way for the weekend. Uhg.

[Skunkmaster-k]

I’m going to be trying larger senko style baits this year. Last year all I used was the5 inch senko so I wanna see if the 6 inch catches bigger fish

[BrianMDTX]

2 hours ago, optimator said:

 

I really need to try these.... 

They’re good. Either weightless TR or Neko rigged with a small weight in the nose. I just cut off the heads of some 1-1/4” ring nails and used those. 

[Johnbt]

I'm down to my last 9 or 10 bags of Ol' Monsters in Black and a couple of bags of Black Grape. And a few bags of various dark colors of the 12" Magnums.

 

Time to order another few dozen of the black I suppose.

 

I have bags of Senkos and other worm-like things, but the black worms get all the attention.

 

 

[Ben77]

I love senkos they are the real deal but I have to try some maxscent general's and see what all the hype is about.

[Mike L]

I just made the switch to the General. 
Gonna check ‘em out this weekend. 
 

 

 

 

Mike

[Boomstick]

I have the following ready to go this season. I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

 

5" Senkos in Watermelon Red Flake

5" SK KVD Ochos in KVD Magic

7" and 8.5" Berkley Power Worms in Green Pumpkin, Watermelon and Tequila Sunrise

6" X-Zone Deception Worms - One Houdini and I can't recall the second color, maybe 309

5" X-Zone True Center Stick

X-Zone NED Zone Green Pumpkin Purple & 309

Z-Man TRD in several colrs

4.5" and 6" Roboworms in Aaron's Magic, Aaron's Morning Dawn and Aaron's Pro Magic

 

 

[padon]

6 hours ago, PhishLI said:

They just came in. They're totally buoyant in my cold water sink test. Weight is 8 grams without a hook, so they'll fly on MH casting gear. Hopefully I'll chuck 'em later. Deep freeze heading our way for the weekend. Uhg.

yes they are heavy and that tail really rises in the water. they cast easy on casting gear even with a light head.oh and dont tell anybody but dont be afraid to wacky rig them weightless either

[papajoe222]

Early in the season, I prefer something that doesn't have a lot of action like a Zoom SpeedWorm.

When I want more action, I choose a ribbon tail like a Culprit.

A stick worm is always a staple for me. 

Mainstay colors are purple/red and pumpkinseed

[softwateronly]

No idea if this is gonna get the right attention in my waters, but I gonna spend some time with 9" uptons custom reapers on a 1/2oz mag shakey head in deep water post spawn thru summer.  Also thinking of swimming it on a swing head/tokyo rig.  Pretty sure it'll produce a decent pike or a mammoth northern largemouth if I put it in the right spot.

 

scott

[Hewhospeaksmuchbull]

B&S curltails

B&S stickbaits

B&S Craws

B&S open pour swimbaits

B&S chatter trailer

B&S swimbait

 

All made to my exact specifications.

[PhishLI]

On 3/3/2021 at 12:08 PM, roadwarrior said:

I don't know which came first or which is a knockoff

I don't know that either, but they're quite different. The Airtail Rattler is heavily ribbed and completely floats, not just the tail. The Macho is twice as heavy and sinks like a rock.

[Choporoz]

On 3/2/2021 at 7:38 PM, WRB said:

Yamamoto 5” Daiwa FAT *Macho Neko worm.

Tom

* revised

I had to look this one up....I thought this was a bit of humor,  Tom...like the carolinawhopperspoon drop shot...lol

[Choporoz]

As to the question....I could probably be happy with only Rage Tail and Yamamoto.  I have pounds of others to work through,  mostly Robo, Reins, Zoom, Culprit, others.

For worms, I plan to try to keep it simple....mostly....limited size, shapes, colors.  One thing I plan like to do different this year is experiment with small accent colors.   Maybe I've watched too of the pros this winter.  But a dip here or a Spike It mark there...a bit of contrast to see whether I can tell any difference in catch rates

[Cdn Angler]

senko. 5 inch. green. 

 

Boring, but has outfished anything else I've tried by a significant margin. 

[NYWayfarer]

GYBC Senko

Yum Dinger

BPS Stik O

Zoom Speedworm

[Biglittle8]

These are some of my favorites for Texas rig!  I have boxes of worms, but I love trying new stuff.