best flippin worm

[Guest avid]

I have alot of weedcover that I want to flip. The jigs are picking up too much weeds so I want to use a worm.  What worms do you use for flipping into weedy water  about 3 feet deep.

thanks

[nwgabassmaster]

Zoom Finesse Worm, which is 6 inches long.  I use a 2/0 EWG hook, and a 3/16 oz. weight.  It is a straight tail worm, which will not catch all the weeds that a jig will.

I use 3 colors, most of the time.  Pumpkin, chartreuse pumpkin, and icicle.

If you are only catching small bass, and you know that there are larger bass, you might want to step up to 7 in. finesse worm, or perhaps a GYCB Kut-tail.

[Chris]

I flip a tube, creature bait like a zoom super hog, brush hog, gatortail worm, paddletail worm, tube lizard, a fry(or senko), lizard, and  sweetbeaver.

[basstard]

I use either a 7" ribbon tail Zoom worm in red shad. I also use a 6" Zoom lizard. Try a drop shot rig also, it will help keep your bait just above the vegetation.

[basspro48]

Try flipping a watermelon/red zoom super hog or a black/blue YUM Garett mega tube.

Hope this helps.

[Double_T]

I use either a Ugly Otter, Sweat Beaver or a Speed Worm with a 3/16oz weight.  They go thru the weeds well and you get great action on each bait.  I seperate the tail and arms on the Ugly Otter.

Troyce

[gatrboy53]

any straight type worm u fill comfortable with ,as stated above the curly tail worms tend to wrap around the cover ur fishing and u will experience the same problem u have now. any of the creature baits work well, sweet beaver doesn't have as many appendages ,wolly hawg tail, brush hawg r very good flippin baits ,if they tend to get caught in the cover ur fishin remove some of the appendages. i even flip cigar type baits like senkos in deeper cover. tubes cant be over looked they r one of the best heavy cover flippin baits .u specified worms but i would try tubes and creature baits first.

[Gatorbassman]

What kind of jig are you using. I fish alot of grass and I use a grass jig. It is a jig that has a pointed head and will punch through the grass very well. I tried verious brands of grass jigs and have found some are OK but only a couple work best for me.

[senko_77]

when i went to bps the other day, i found a bag of yum shakin worms in the clearance section for 50 cents.  they were like green/turquise.  well i rigged up those babies with a 3/16 oz. weight and a 1/0 hook and caught a ton out of a grass bed, and some lily pads.  and half of them were over 12 inches.  they really surprised me.  well im rambling on here so yes, i would suggest the yum shakin worm

[Pond-Pro]

       I like the zoom baby brush hog in watermelon red. Peg the wait while flipping.  

[basser89]

My first choice would be a Mizmo Big Boy or Bass Pro Shop's Magnum Flippin tube! Second choice, a Zoom Brush Hog or Strike King Wild Thang!

[flyphisher #]

When flipping worms I use Zoom's Ol Monster and Mag II's in red shad, junebug/red, midnite emerald,or black shad.......Never had any luck on other colors.

Got a compact offering try a Zoom Ultravibe speedcraw texas rigged with a small bullet wt.....Use a little bigger weight and you can flip horny toads and get alot of big bites.

[Guest avid]

Ton of great information here.  I was specifically looking for a worm because I thought they would be least likely to get mucked up.  The vegetation down here in Florida is very thick.  It's not grass so much as floating mats nyaids and such.  No 3/16's oz weight is going to put a dent in it.  It's not uncommon down here to start at 1/2 oz. and go all the way up to 1 1/4 oz if the weedgrowth is that thick.  I see most of you don't like pitchin worms but are using craws, tubes, and critter baits.  I have several bags of mini brush hogs in different colors so I will give them a try.  The weeds are starting to thin out so a 1/2 oz tungsten worm weight should do the job.   I'll let you know how it  works out.

PS   I have been having great success using a 1/4 oz jig fishing the weed edges, but any jig I try throwning into the weeds themselves are comming up dirty everytime.  I'm getting a few bites, mind you, but something cleaner would be faster and easier.

thanks to all for some great advice.  And keep it commin'

[paully]

Hey, I was watching this show Fishing with Scott Martin and they were fishing Okeechobee on the matts. They used a 1 oz tungten rigged with a 3 inch craw and they were getting lots of bites from theere like that hopping it around

[Pond-Pro]

      Avid, I would use a 1 ounce tungsten wieght. If you have trouple getting a baby brushhog through the mats, you can cut the little things on the side off to make it thinner. Tungsten wieghts are smaller so you can punch trough easier.  Like Paully siad, A 3 inch craw will work.  One of my old mags : Professional won event flipping a 3 inch craw type bait with really heavy tungsten wieght.  Good luck!

[flippin4it.]

      I use 3/8 to 1 ounce sinkers depending on the thickness of grass and spray all baits going into or around any weeds with Jacks Juice.The stuff is plain slippery.The bait will glide through and bass seem to eat the bait.

[Curado]

I like a Zoom Ol' Monster or Yum 7.5 in. worm, I also like a tube or a creature bait.

[basser89]

Hey Avid,

I read a Bassmaster magazine several years ago and read about a technique. They were drop shotting a tube with a 1/2 to 1 oz sinker. They kept the bait within 6" of the bait. The weight would punch through the grass/slop and go down to where the big ones are (from what the article said). Haven't come across the situation to try it yet but to me, it sounds like it would produce! Hope this helps!

[DePoy79]

i like to use a berkeley flipp'n worm in green pumpkin

[Guest avid]

I'm eager to get out on the lake and try some of the ideas you guys posted.  It's been really lousy weather.  I'll fish in the rain for sure, but it's the gale force winds that have been keeping me ashore.   Soon, I hope.