Category: Worms
Top Secret Bait Revealed: the RotoTail
While back I shared with you my recent Top Secret bait experience. Well, today’s the day it’s revealed. It’s called the RotoTail – check the vids below. Basically, the bait is a plastic worm (or make it into a trailer) with a tail that spins 360 degrees. The tail has a soft-plastic spinnerbait-like blade at [...]
Who Needs a Smelly Package?
[Update 10/13: This contest is officially over. Someone remind me to announce the winners in a couple weeks.] Well, I ran with your collective recommendation for 10″ worms, got in touch with the good folks at Berkley and they came through. UPS man brought a few boxes of stinky 10″ and 12″ Power Worms the [...]
Anyone Got a ‘Better’ 10-Inch Worm?
One thing (of several) that stood out when looking at the FishingGold.com data is that 10″ worms win derbies. They work. And I just about never fish ‘em. In fact, other than the one I used the other day that got beat senseless by the basses, I’m plum out. All the local tackle tackle stores [...]
Science: UV Baits
Lots of neat ideas come out of the bassin’ world every year, usually around ICAST time. It’s always interesting to see what catches on and what doesn’t. Things like red hooks certainly had a following. Same could be said for the introduction of ‘sexy shad’ colored baits. Then there are things like Gulp, Attraxx and [...]
Woo: Small Worms Shallow, Big Deep
Here’s how Woo Daves – the king of worms, junk-fishing and mentioning all 100 sponsors on the Classic stage – fishes in summer (from here). Couple nuggets in there, at least for me: > Daves starts by throwing worms around these isolated logs and stumps. He generally fishes a 4 1/2-inch plastic worm shallow. > [...]
