ELECTRIC

[Mobasser]

I think it was in the mid 1980s, when I first saw a plastic worm with glitter added.                                     The first ones I saw were a medium blue color, with shiny glitter added to the mix. The tackle shop where I bought them called them " electric blue".                       Until then, the only plastic baits I had used were standard colors, worms in black, grape, purple, and blue shades.                             I was skeptical of these " electric" worms, and remember thinking they probably wouldn't work very well. Of course, that was wrong.                                                       They were a hot item, and sold very fast. One shop sold them out of shoe boxes, at .25 cents per worm. Guys would come in and buy handfuls, and talk about catching scores of fish with them. All this talk only fed the demand, and soon after came purple, grapes, greens, and other colors, with shiny glitter added.                                                               I'm not sure what company first sold the glitter plastic baits, and, they had probably been around before I first tried them. I've had good luck with them over the years, especially in grape and purple shades.                                                        Now of course we have glitter, " electric," plastic baits in every color under the sun. But when they first hit the shops here in Mo, they were a hot item for bass fisherman.                                          Do you remember your first glitter plastic baits?

[jtharris3]

Mann's Augertail in electric grape was a go to for me in the late 80,s.

[Fishes in trees]

I remember seeing them and I probably would have bought some if they came in smaller sizes at the time.  Remembering seeing these baits in fishing shops reminds me that I was toward the end of my meat fishing bush hippie period.   I threw Brewer Slider worms 90% of the time and the rest of the time I threw a 1/8 oz crappie jig with a #11 pork frog - either brown or black or green & white spots.  At the time it never would have occurred to me to buy the electric blue worms and cut them down.

 

I never did think that electric blue was a particularly good color and at the time I didn't really believe the guys who said that it was.  Even now, I carry many different colors of soft plastics, in a variety of shapes, and there are lots of different colors & shapes I will try before I try that electric blue color.

[Catt]

The first worms I saw with glitter in em were Fire-n-Ice, this was in the early 70s & came by way of Lake Guerrero Mexico.

 

Not 100% certain but they may have been Culprit.

[Captain Phil]

Anyone here remember Fleck worms?

[Spankey]

I never got bit by the blue worm bug. I remember the exact worm you are talking about. There is another electric blue type also that has my memory. I bet I could dig up a few of both of these types. I believe I never got into them was because I just couldn’t place what it was trying to represent. Blue has never been a big part of my fishing. 
 

Blue is really not a big part of my crankbait fish for the majority of my season. But fall it gets thrown a lot. It has gotten my some real nice fish in recent years. I don’t know why it seems to work for me than. I sort of chalk it up to the point that this is when water clarity is the clearest. The blue CB’s I use are not produced anymore. The bait is but not in blue. Why was it stopped? Maybe all just a head game. 

[Log Catcher]

2 hours ago, Catt said:

The first worms I saw with glitter in em were Fire-n-Ice, this was in the early 70s & came by way of Lake Guerrero Mexico.

 

Not 100% certain but they may have been Culprit.

Culprit still makes the Fire-n-Ice worms. I have a pack of them in 7.5".