Swimming Worm

[Crestliner2008]

Now if I can jog your memories a tad, Doug Hannon use to use a swimming worm to catch some pretty impressive bass back about 20 years ago. This worm was rigged such that a size #1 offset beak hook (with bait holding barbs and straight or ringed eye) is threaded onto a straight tailed worm; just the hook point itself comes out just below the egg sack, creating a bend in the worm. A quality ball bearing swivel is tied about 2' ahead of the worm which is cast out, allowed to sink a bit, then slow rolled back to the boat. If rigged properly, the worm would do consecutive 360 degree turns as you retrieved it. The worm would undulate provocatively in the water which both attracted and triggered the bass into striking. My question is, does anyone ever use this technique anymore? And if so, what are your experiences with it? I'm going to start using again this season and was curious.

[rocknfish9001]

I used it a little the last couple of years, and it worked really well. The downfalls of this rig is the time it takes to tie it up, and the fact that no matter how good of a swivel you have, you get line twist to some extent. I caught a few bass that were pretty big on this, actually