![]() When I feel that dead weight, I set the hook. Bass often hit on the pause when the worm sinks. I prefer a slower - usually “twitch-twitch-pause” - retrieve. A quick, hard hook set is the next action. ![]() When the worm disappears, it’s because it is in the maw of a hungry bass. Some people use bright colors so the worm is visible during the retrieve. One makes a long cast, allows the worm to sink some, and then twitches it back during the retrieve using a low rod tip to just take the slack out of the line and reeling with short turns of the handle. Techniqueįishing the floating worm is easy. Weedless, inexpensive, easy to work and effective is a nice list of attributes for a 30-year-old lure. Typically the floating worm is either rigged “wacky” style, with a bare hook piercing the bait in the middle, or Texas style, using an offset worm hook with the point embedded back into the worm. It sinks fairly slowly, and one can vary that with hook size and the use of a barrel swivel. I should note the “floating worm” does not float. It simply checks all the boxes: easy to use, weedless, inexpensive and very effective, even in the hands of the novice angler. For some it’s a spinnerbait, for others a crankbait of some sort, and still others some type of soft plastic offering.įor me, it’s the floating (or trick) worm. Stephen Carroll of Garner admires a largemouth bass.Įvery bass angler has a “go to” lure, the bait in their tackle box that gets tied on more often than others.
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