Purple Worms? 2024
Paul Peixoto reply :
All the older fishermen I talk to say purple worms are "the best" any truth?
MichiganFishing1997 reply :
My dad loves those purple worms with the white stripes. ( the pre rigged ones). I have also had good luck with them.
Lip 'em! reply :
Ive heard the same thing from alot of the local old guys. Personally i have had better luck with red shad or pumpkinseed colored worms. But grape worms have faired me well. Cant leave out just plain black either!
Avalonjohn44 reply :
With all of our fancy colors, sometimes the basics just work best. Purple, Black, Yellow (not chartreuse, but regular old yellow...) will work anywhere. Not as flashy to our eyes as Watermelon Candy, Green Moccasin or Fire and Ice, but still darned good.
loudcherokee reply :
My dad would always swear by a culprit grape worm. You'd think he had stock in the company with as many as he had. He caught fish on them, so i guess they worked.
LC
Goose52 reply :
I am an old guy and I wouldn't say that purple is "best"...but I will say it was one of the most popular colors when I started fishing plastic worms in the 1960s. They caught bass then - no reason why they won't now. I occasionally still fish Mann's Jelly Worms in black grape - they work - catch fish.
A coincidence that just yesterday I got this 21" 4.38lb LMB on an 8" Jelly Worm in black grape... 
JCiurej34 reply :
A buddy of mine kills them on a Blue Fleck Power Worm which he buys by the hundred pack. They are purple with blue flakes in them and they actually work very well.
that possum reply :
My old man says that his favorite worm of all time was a 7" purple/purple firetail worm that Mr Twister made.
Now days I can only find a black with purple firetail worm by Berkley.
je1946 reply :
I'm with Goose, when that Manns Jelly worm first came out I couldn't get enough of the 9" in Blkgrape, caught alot of nice fish on it. Now I mainly fish the Blk Culprit worm deady on a C-rig. Going to be trying the Zworm in elaztec on the C-rig, it floats see if it makes a difference.
WRB reply :
I am an old timer and once had the nick name "purple worm". They could have said purple jig and that would have also fit me OK! PVJ purple vynl jig was my go to color.
Today over 40 years later I like purple in my worms and jigs as high light or accent color.
Oxblood red flake with purple vein, cinnamon with purple flakes, dark watermelon green with purple and red flakes, dark purple with neon blue vein, smokes with purple vein and black, silver, gold flakes.
Have you ever looked at a live night crawler or threadfin shad; purple highlites!
My go to jig color is anytime anywhere; combination of. Black/purple/brown skirt that dated back to the early 70's. several hundred DD bass can't be wrong!
Tom
martintheduck reply :
Out of all my confidence baits, a purple-ish worm is my most confident bait. Could be purple with purple flake, or translucent purple, or solid purple. Don't ask me why or how... When ever I throw a purple worm, my mind can easily commit to the bait, and I have the thought "fish will eat this." Love em'.
Bluebasser86 reply :
A little purple worm is the deal on Table Rock with a dropshot a lot of the time. Blackberry is one of my favorite creature and worm colors (black with large purple flake) I tied some purple/silver flake jigs this winter and the bass have been liking them.
Quillback reply :
Yep, I fish a drop shot on Table Rock and my go to worm is a Zoom Finesse in Old Purple.
Tuckahoe Joe reply :
I just found a purple worm on the ground this morning. Usually if you find worms they're all torn up from being on a hook but this one was completely intact. I'll have to give it a try.
Sam reply :
Of course purple works as a color for bass.
Purple is used as a highlight color for plastics and jig skirts.
The problem is that the word "purple" is not used. The manufacturers use some fancy name so you have to look at the product to make sure it is what you want.
Us old timers, like Tom, used to use purple worms in the good ole days. I think they were good ole days. What days? Who are you? Where am I?
Oops. Back to the thread. Then different colors came out; the tournaments and Classic started getting a lot of attention from the media and all of a sudden we are using crazy named plastics and have left the basic colors behind.
So use plastic purple baits. Especially in heavily stained water or at night. I think they taste better than the other ones out there.
Bankbeater reply :
A purple worm was the first color I remember fishing with, and it is still one of my confidence baits.
roadwarrior reply :
Rage Tail "purple" is Blue Fleck. I fish the Thumper and Anaconda in a variety of colors,
but this is my favorite!
loudcherokee reply :
Let's not forget the "bubble gum" craze of the 90's. At least it was that way where I was at in TN.
LC
ooga0341 reply :
I like to use the Trick Worm in black grape T-rigged and weightless, when fishing around docks in marinas.
PABASS reply :
Berkley purple worm is the first worm and even plastic I recall using when I was young.
Revival reply :
Purple power worms was what we used constantly when i started fishing. I recently bought some and the smell of it gives me flashbacks...haha.
Crestliner2008 reply :
Back in the '60's & '70's, just about all you could get were purple or black worms. So, naturally, if that's what everyone used (and I was one of them), you caught most of your fish on those colors. Today, we have most colors of the spectrum to choose from. I'm not so sure that it matters much. More important to me is how I am using what I am using. If that makes any sense! 
Bigbass37 reply :
Tequila Shad and Tequila Sunrise......Some of the best go to bait to caught lots of fish and big fish.
tholmes reply :
On 7/2/2013 at 11:13 PM, Bigbass37 said:Tequila Shad and Tequila Sunrise......Some of the best go to bait to caught lots of fish and big fish.
Tequila Sunrise (just another variation of purple) along with variations of black, blue and green cover all of my plastic worm needs.
Tom
martintheduck reply :
On 7/2/2013 at 6:45 PM, Sam said:Of course purple works as a color for bass.
Purple is used as a highlight color for plastics and jig skirts.
The problem is that the word "purple" is not used. The manufacturers use some fancy name so you have to look at the product to make sure it is what you want.
Us old timers, like Tom, used to use purple worms in the good ole days. I think they were good ole days. What days? Who are you? Where am I?
Oops. Back to the thread. Then different colors came out; the tournaments and Classic started getting a lot of attention from the media and all of a sudden we are using crazy named plastics and have left the basic colors behind.
So use plastic purple baits. Especially in heavily stained water or at night. I think they taste better than the other ones out there.
This post made me laugh.
jtharris3 reply :
My favorite all time is the Mann's Augertail worm in purple. :-)
My second favorite is a 6" red worm with the dark blood line running through it. I vividly remember a day on lake Fork where me and a buddy went through a hundred of these in a day! We lost count on how many fish we caught!
Blues19 reply :
old favorites wont stop working. the fish around now were not alive back when people were getting all the fish on old favorites like the purple worm, so it may be something I need to try. I typically use green pumpkin, watermelon or something like that. I need to go get some of the 7" Purple Manns Jelly Worms
Preytorien reply :
When all else seems to fail, I turn to a tried-and-true Kelly's Pier Boy Special in Purple Wild Grape.
http://www.kellysbassworms.com/products.asp
I clamp on a split shot about 18-24 inches from the worm and hop it along the bottom, or even sometimes just slowly drag it through the water.
More often than not when all the other fish catchers I own fail to land fish, this one will work.
Bladesmith, reply :
I could be mistaken but I believe it was Tom Mann that made the famous (at least it was famous among the guys I fished with) statement; "Any size or color of plastic worm will catch fish as long as it is 6 inches and purple". That was back when the only plastic worms we could find were purple or black and all of them were 6 inches. Anyway, we took it to heart and went together (the bass club that is) and ordered several thousand purple jelly worms to split up among us. They did catch fish in Lake Dardenelle and the Ark. River that feeds it. I believe I still have a few, I think.
derekxec reply :
On 7/2/2013 at 9:03 AM, loudcherokee said:My dad would always swear by a culprit grape worm. You'd think he had stock in the company with as many as he had. He caught fish on them, so i guess they worked.
LC
my dad is the exact same lol
Paul Peixoto reply :
The more I read the more I believe it had a lot to do with the minimum amount of choices available. As where now there are hundreds if not thousands of colors. But I guess to prove myself wrong, within all these colors, green pumpkin is a fad for a long time
Mr. Bassin II reply :
This brings back memories for me as my first bass was caught 35 years ago on purple fire-tail worm. I remember this so well because my next 9 were caught on the same worm within two hours. All of these were caught without the benefit of Trokar hooks, tungsten weights, or fluorocarbon line. Looking back now, it was a miracle I ever caught these fish. Anyway this has always been a fantastic color combo for me.
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