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Got some plastic worms laying around ? - use em for crappie !
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06/25/17 01:44 AM
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SenkoSam
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I happened to be hold up in my basement workshop due to bad weather and started wondering, now what can I do with all those old soft plastic lures collecting dust for decades? A year ago I discovered a lure design that catches all fish species : a soft plastic lure in the shape of a bullet. No action tail, nothing fancy, just a cone shaped tail that turned out to be incredible at catching fish. So I figured, why must a lure even have an action tail if the lure's body has enough action to provoke strikes? Enter the plastic worm - or at least a part of it. The lures above are from the tail section of plastic worms (except for the minnow grub). I tried to find the slimmest worm bodies I could find, cut them to a length of 1.5-2" and rigged them on 1/16 oz. ball head jigs. They caught as many fish as any lure I own ! The craw claw was from another bass lure I fused to a grub body using a candle flame. Another winner! Fish respond to lure action and profile and what better than something finesse in design that gets fish to clobber a lure which you may have laying around unused?
Last edited by SenkoSam; 06/25/17 02:23 AM.
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Re: Got some plastic worms laying around ? - use em for crappie !
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06/25/17 02:10 AM
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wooddiver
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Nice, like the thought of using my old worms for crappie. good post.
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Re: Got some plastic worms laying around ? - use em for crappie !
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06/25/17 04:09 AM
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Gungle
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Isn't that a Ned rig? Cheers, George
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Re: Got some plastic worms laying around ? - use em for crappie !
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06/25/17 08:28 AM
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SenkoSam
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Isn't that a Ned rig? Cheers, George What's a Ned rig? The only rigs I know are Texas, Carolina and drop shot.
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Re: Got some plastic worms laying around ? - use em for crappie !
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06/25/17 12:40 PM
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JIM SR.
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Re: Got some plastic worms laying around ? - use em for crappie !
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06/25/17 02:05 PM
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Captain Yakker
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Excellent post and idea! I have bags upon bags of plastic worms/lizards/crawls from my bass fishing days. Gonna see what I can concoct for crappie catching.
Thanks again for the ideas.
Fishin' to stock Lake Crisco.
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Re: Got some plastic worms laying around ? - use em for crappie !
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06/25/17 02:49 PM
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JigandJeep
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Isn't that a Ned rig? Cheers, George Yeah pretty much the TRD or NED rig. I'm going to Michigan next week and that's probably what I'll be throwing 90% of the time that I'm not using live nightcrawlers. Works great for the smaller (to us) midwest bass, sure NY is pretty similar. Hopefully I luck into a pocket of crappie on the lake. So far the only crappie I caught on this lake was on the fourth of july when one hit a firecracker I through in the water.
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Re: Got some plastic worms laying around ? - use em for crappie !
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06/25/17 03:12 PM
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SLABXPRESS
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I've been know to take the last couple inches off a Berkley powerworm curly tail with great success too.
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Re: Got some plastic worms laying around ? - use em for crappie !
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06/26/17 07:28 PM
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I haven't bought a crappie body in the last 2 years. I employ this technique and get about a years worth in a couple of days. I watch football on Sundays and when there are two CARP teams on, I get out the scissors and used worms. My son likes to make his own spin on these baits also. I have found that they slide down the hook a little easier, but that can be fixed
you know, nothing wrong with seven men who met on the internet going for a swim together
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