Best forgotten worm colors

What are some colors that used to be tried and true colors that your grandpa swore was the best.....that you never seem to use anymore.....or combination of colors that you no longer see around?

Plum crazy ribbon tail worm

Fire n Ice
Salt n pepper
Tequila sunrise
Pumpkinseed

Motor oil. Caught a zillion fish out of Rayburn on them in the late 70s, early eighties.

Red black core

Root beer

June Bug

JR

Purple

Red shad
Motor oil

Tequilla sunrise.

Mann's Grape Flip Tail

BLUE

I feel like I don't see bubblegum as much as I used to

Red bloodline, Texas smoke, camo were our best colors on Rayburn in the 90's.

Electric blue was the deal for me in the 80s

Bunch of yutes. Manns grape jelly worm. Also Scuppernong.

Grape/ fire tail, motor oil, black/red shad, red/ black core.

Culprit Fire and Ice and they made a Hot Pink with black pepper flakes back in the day that was insanely good.

Grape was the color that I was told to catch big bass when I was young.
Back in the early 90's the color that was the hot color was pumpkinseed.

pumpkinseed was supposedly a color that resulted from a screw-up in the color mixing at Zoom and turned into their best seller for a year or so...
chartreuse with black core made by Red's worms was really good for spotted bass on lake martin....

Mann's crème worms

Motor Oil w/gold flake was a bass slayer.

Mean Green and Grape Neon 4" ringworms in the 80's for me. Motor Oil, Fire and Ice, Tequila Sunrise as mentioned above as well. Strawberry flake in the summer bright sunshine. I don't think I've ever seen anyone throw it since. Probably still works.

I agree w/ this...have some in my boat and use them when the red bite seems to be on.

Mann's black fliptail with the red tail.

Mean green
Fire cracker
Scoupernong ( Charlie & Harry's favorite )
Purple red tail

Purple with a white curly tail. Haven't been able to find them since 1995.

Watermelon w/ large black flake
Green pumpkin with large black flake

Motor Oil and Mann's Electric Blue

Blue/fire tail.

+1

Purple white tail. 4” ringworm used to be my go too.

Black and red bloodline

Weird 82 by Jawtec

Also the Purple/Chartreuse tail.

Fire and Ice
Motor oil
My favorite colors growing up fishing Ivie.

Second on this. It was unbeatable side by side against any other plastic on a CRig on Conroe.

I can’t find any of the old Jawtec lizards in my “safe” in this color but during the good old days on Fork this crazy green tail on a lizard weightless in the grass was awesome. Seems like we called it “Mr. Green Jeans” or something like that. The Bogus Wiggler in the same color was good punching heavy grass as well.

Solid Black
Purple Silver flake w/White tail

There used to be a opaque red one that was a Kangaroo Worm. Had a little pouch in it to put tablets in that was killer on Fork. Also Fire and ice culprit worm was my go to.

Milktruese Grub

Mann's Creme Scallywag, Color: weird

7" ringed rascal junebug/bubblegum
6" curltail tequila sunrise fire tail

Black with Fluorescent Green Dots Salty Sensations.

Mann's strawberry Augertail.

Used to be my favorite. Thank goodness Morning Dawn came along...

Don't see may black/chartreuse tail, red shad or tequila sunrise anymore.

Mann’s Electric Blue Auger tail was my goto as a kid in the 80’s

You don’t see core shot colors very often anymore

I have a couple packs left of the Big Bite finesse worms that color-I wish more companies would offer that color.
I recall Fouzman mentioning that was the original “Junebug”color when it came out

With a chartreuse tail... Dan

Ring tailed rascals were the bomb!

Mister Twister grape and or purple with silver flake.

I remember picking up some Red's Catalpa worms in a local tackle shop while I was fishing a tournament on Lanier. They didn't work for Lanier, but those things were money on the Texas lakes.

(Creme Scoundrels) Grape with yellow tail and black with red fire tail
(Mann’s Jelly Worm) Black grape
(Gillraker) Fire & Ice

Weird 82

Good Fishing, Bruce

Purple Fire Tail
Black Chartreuse
Purple Blue Tail

Earlier this year I bought 200 10" and 300 7" from bitters baits

Many of the colors mentioned are still available, even though they may not be used much.

Anything with a fire tail

Purple White Tail 6" Mister Twister or Phantom
Purple Fire Tail 6" Mister Twister or Phantom
Purple Chart Tail 6" Mister Twister or Phantom

Black Fire Tail 6" Mister Twister or Phantom

Motor Oil 6" Mister Twister or Phantom

Watermelon w/Silver Flake Phantom

Firecracker Phantom Sensation

All with a 3/16oz lead sinker and a blue TruTurn Hook

Twiggy worms / Motor Oil 1/2 oz. lead weight 4/0 hook Toledo Bend 1970 .

I caught every bass in lake Hawkins in the 70's and early 80's on an electric blue Mr Twister

Mann's Blueberry Jelly Worm.. caught a bunch of em on Guntersville on those back in the day

Purple with a yellow tail use to be my go to

4" power worm Tequila Sunrise
4" power worm Fire & Ice

Those were phenominal colors I threw in NJ as a kid

Our go to for numbers of fish was the 6" purple with white curly tail mister twister. For lunkers my dad believed in the culprit 7.5" crawdad color. Man we caught some fish on those worms

Barlows had some opaque green with red inside that were good. Used to whack em pretty good on a black lizard with yellow dots all the way along the back of them. Can't remember what company made em. This was late 80's early 90's for both of those.

Mister twister made lizards with white and yellow dots.
The4 inch ones have caught a lot of big fish with spots or just black.

Burple.....no I didn't mispell purple. Don't know if it ever hit Texas but it was a definite go-to in East TN.

These were one of my favorites,...when I retired from bass fishing, they were hung on my wall of fame.

Wrong

Hmmmm…..Scoundrel

Black grape

Frank, I did not say that ALL the colors were still available but many of them are still sold today. Maybe you need to pull your head out and go look and see.

Most of the colors listed on page 1 are still made and some of those same colors are also listed on page 2.

Stembridges Fliptail in black or purple
grape fire tail
purple white tail, by Yum Yum, or Mister Twister
Red black core ( Bloodline) with silver flake, Fire & Ice ,Electric Blue, and Plum by Ring Rascall.

Don’t let Frank get under your skin, that’s his goal in this forum for the most part.

Gonna give Bitters Baits a try. Will give my opinions on their stuff when order arrives.

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Wrong thread?

Mann's Grape or Black Jelly Worm with Firetail
Bagley's Grape Hard Head Worm

Ken A did you ever get your order placed? If so how are they working out?

scuppernong

Kudzo

Picked up a pack of Culprit Tomato worms the other day at BPS, I hadn't seen them in a while, caught a lot of fish with them back in the day

Pumpkinseed was the other I always use to catch them with