Wacky Worm Question

What size worm(s) do you use? Favorite brand? A go-to color for most of the lakes you fish? After 60 years of fishing, I just might give it a shot.

5" Senko

I like to use trick worms.

Zoom Trick worm or zoom finesse worm.

5” senko watermelon red. It’s the only color you’ll ever need.

Slim 5" senko with small nail weight in head

Already posted

Mag trick worm
Flick shake

Yep

Something new to me I've been trying is wacky rigging a Super Fluke. It has worked as well as any stick bait so far.

I've tried it a couple of times with a Senko and a Yum Dinger and had zero success. I'm thinking about throwing a wacky rig this weekend if the weather allows.

Try a caffeine shad, I throw those in place of a senko a lot

Green pumpkin senko.

You need to fish it slow. Don’t impart your own action. Skip it under a dock and let it fall. You will catch fish. I promise.

6" straight tail or Senco is 4"- 6" but 5" is generally. Want to change up a but throw one of them ol' centipede baits.

Certainly need to match your hook but on the straight tail worms like the Zoom Trick worm I like these Gamakatsu Finesse Wide Gap Weedless Hooks 2/0 and 3/0:





or these:

Agreed also a dip of the tail in dip n glo.

I would suggest if you've bass fished for 60 yrs and not thrown a wacky worm you have missed out on a lot of fish you could've caught. A wacky rigged stick bait like a Senko is deadly most of the year.

A wacky Zoom Trick worm is also deadly. I like a Lunker City lead nail in the head and a 2/0 worm hook rigged similar to what Wayne P showed above. It will get bit behind folks throwing standard Tx rigs all day.

As far as the color, WM red or GP is all you need.

I really like the Wave Worm Tiki Stick 5" in Watermelon Red

Yep. I caught a bunch last weekend on them and took a non-bass guy out Wednesday with a new spinning reel I helped him pick out. O-ringed a Senko and said cast and let it fall. Period. He caught several nice ones and I was trying faster moving baits and topwaters and didn't catch jack.

Glad you asked! A Zoom Trick Worm in JuneBug or JuneBug Red in stained water , in clear, Watermelon or Watermelon Red.
On a Gamakatsu 4/0 or 3/0 Octopus circle hook less chance of deep throating.

I like a 5” Zman senko on a 1/0 wide gap wacky rig hook. I like their green pumpkin and chartreuse color senko.

Went with a buddy to a good vegetation lake on Saturday and all he thru was a watermelon red flake yum dinger. Boated 29 wacky and weightless tx rig. Never was a fan of them but it changed my mind.

They work extremely well in grass lakes.