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How and Where To Use Plastic Worms
5 March 2009
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Author; Don Chalmers
Plastic worms can be fished virtually anywhere bass are located. However,there are special spots or structure types that have plastic worm written all over them. The following is a list of areas plastic worms should be used and how to use them.
Laydown Trees- Trees fallen into the water offer thick cover in which bass will hide. Hold your boat off the end of the tree and slowly retrieve the worm through the limbs. Each time the worm crawls over a limb, give it slack so it can sink back to the bottom.Work from the root and through the outermost limbs.
Floating Cover- Bass like to hide below floating cover such as vegetation mats and driftwood. Ease in close and flip your favorite worm into the tiny holes and pockets in the cover.Use a heavy sinker if necessary to punch through the cover, then jig the worm slowly beneath it
Grass line edges- Hold your boat closes to the grass and cast a swimming-tail worm along the edge. Try different retrieves ( straight swim, lift drop) to see which the fish perfer.The key here is to find the high percentage spots that have the irregular points and gaps.
Pockets in Matted Vegetation- Position your boat on the outside of the vegetation. cast a weightless worm over pockets and holes in cover. reel the worm rapidly into the pockets, then stop your retrieve for a few seconds. If a bass strikes your worm wait until you feel the pressure as the fish begins to swim away to set the hook.
Boat Docks- Pick a dock a part. Skip cast a Texas rigged worm beneath the piers.Use a swimming worm parallel to the sides of docks. Flip around pilings, ladders or any object that offers shade.
Stump/Timber lined dropoffs- Position your boat in the deeper water and cast perpendicular into the shallows next to the wood cover. Wait for the worm to sink to the bottom then pull the worm with a lift/ drop retrieve . If its standing timber cast the worm through the limbs and trunks of tree as close as you can get to the trunk. Pull the worm through the notches where the branches grow out of the trunk of tree.
Fish Attractors- Thoroughly cover all brushpiles, stakebeds ,tire piles, and other man made fish attractors with a texas rigged worm. Move closer if no hits and use a larger worm and flip it through the thickest cover again.
Bluffs- Position boat close to the bluffs.Use either a texas rig worm or a finesse worm parallel to the face of the bluff. Shake the worm down as it sinks. If it hits a ledge pop it and pull it and shake it back down. Work the entire area This method works well for bass holding on rock beds.
Run-Ins-- Use a Texas rigged worm and cast it into the mouths of culverts , drains, gullies, and other spots where water is emptying into a reservoir. Food will wash into these areas often times especially after heavy rains and often times bass will move there to feed.
Anywhere You’ve caught bass- Use a worm as a cleanup bait to rework spots where you have caught bass on spinner baits, crankbaits or other types of lures. Most times then not using a worm through the same area will take additional bass that were reluctant to hit the faster moving bait
