Your First Plastic Worm Fish........ 2024

whitwolf reply :

Do y'all remember your first plastic worm fish?

I do like It was yesterday. It was on a Bill Norman Snatrix many years ago..........

Tyfisher reply :

My first was on a wacky rigged berkley trick worm. I didn't really know what I was doing and just hung on. This was only a couple years ago, but looking back on it may as well be another life...I've learned so much and caught so many fish starting from just that one.

ww2farmer reply :

Culprit 6" red shad...............back in the mid 80's. I don't think it was much more than a 12-14" fish but to a 12 year old it was huge.

papajoe222 reply :

My first was on an original Creme worm. I had no idea how to work it back, so I just reeled it in slowly. That worm was pre-rigged. The first fish I caught on a T-rigged worm was on a Mann's Jelly Worm. Still use them in the BIG size.

bigbill reply :

I remember buying the original creme worms when I was 12yo.

This would be the early 60's. If I remember correctly some of them were rigged with hooks and props too. I can't remember back that far if we caught fish with them or not. I do remember buying that comic book scam for the 50 fishing items for $4.95.

Mine came with a yellow sonic with the lighten strike on the side. I tossed it in the springtime and caught my first bass on a lure. But fishing with worms back then I have brain fade. I do remember using a split shot rig from a boat on a lake here in 1973. I caught a bass from the weeds fishing it very slow. I think the plastic worms being offered by then exploded we had black, natural and purple colors too. Kidding I think the different plastic worms took off soon after. But the plastic worm is still the number #1 bait for bass even today.

There was a time when I stopped fishing for a while. Then my brother in law asked me to go. We were fishing a drop off on a man made lake. I put on the '73 split shot rigged worm and nailed a 4lb bass on my second cast. I felt a tap on the first cast so I went slower on the second cast. I still didn't get the message to go bass fishing more. I was doing the trout springtime fishing only. Funny every time I went bass fishing I caught bass but never got interested in it. I think I got heavy into bass fishing around the late '80's. I do not waste my time trout fishing once I started catching the bigger hogs. There's no feeling like fighting a hog.

I may go back trout fishing to feed my abandoned kittens.

Thanks for the post on plastic worms, you jogged my memories.

gripnrip reply :

I was using a 7" red shad power worm.

Darren. reply :

For the life of me, I can't remember. And it's almost all I fish, soft plastic worms, that is.

basshole8190 reply :

1994 In late spring caught her on a zoom u tale worm 6" in pumpkinseed chartreuse she was maybe a pound but i was only 4 and i was elated

cast_and_destroy reply :

my dad bought me a zebco rod and reel combo when i was much younger, it came with a little tackle box and had a purple curly tail worm along with other lures. i used it to land a decent bass

pbizzle reply :

Mine was when I was 8 on a purple blue flake worm I got in my brand new Shakespeare R2F spincast combo, I thought that it was the coolest rod that any one ever had. I was ready to be the next Bass Master with that combo. The funny thing was that I had no idea what I was doing. I just cast out and swam it back. I still have that combo in my dad's garage and the worm is in my nightstand drawer. The bass couldn't have been much bigger than like 10' but to an 8 year it was wall hanger size.

A-Jay reply :

On 8/10/2013 at 9:50 AM, papajoe222 said:
My first was on an original Creme worm. I had no idea how to work it back, so I just reeled it in slowly. That worm was pre-rigged. The first fish I caught on a T-rigged worm was on a Mann's Jelly Worm. Still use them in the BIG size.

^^^^^^

This is me too.

I started fishing that natural colored job with the beads & little prop on the front.

A-Jay

Blues19 reply :

pretty sure mine was a zoom c-tail worm in pumpkin chartreuse tail

MarkH024 reply :

6" purple body with pink ribbon tail. My grandpa threw that all the time. No idea what brand it was.

Dwight Hottle reply :

On 8/10/2013 at 9:50 AM, papajoe222 said:
My first was on an original Creme worm. I had no idea how to work it back, so I just reeled it in slowly. That worm was pre-rigged. The first fish I caught on a T-rigged worm was on a Mann's Jelly Worm. Still use them in the BIG size.

That sir sounds very familiar. Especially the creme pre-rigged worm.

stratoliner92 reply :

I dont mine but do when i taught wife and one of the kids. Awesome seeing their face when they get that first worm fish. Its still my goto bait,i love that "tap" its kept me hooked !!!

LCpointerKILLA reply :

Culprit worm in some shade of purple. That was the start of it all!

BuffaloBass716 reply :

A texas rigged black senko, and hooked into my first real bass. I still think it was my biggest smallmouth...

dday07 reply :

Berkley 6' black/blue power worm fished on nite catfish trip...got 3 bass and became Bass fisherman ever since

BassinLou reply :

Cool memories, Back in the early 80's I used a Mann's black jelly worm. I still remember the smell. I know I did not catch anything, but it was the first time my Dad (who does not like to fish by the way) took me fresh water fishing. Little did he know, that that trip was what got me hooked on fishing. Thank You for the thread. Whitwolf.

coachdog reply :

Manns Jelly worm. Grape or blackberry. Early 80's

Shane J reply :

Mine was a Pearl Slug-O, weightless. Caught my first 5+lb bass, and I was hooked!

00 mod reply :

I don't remember the worm or the fish, but what I do remember is I had thrown it out of the back of my dads boat, and I was "trolling" it as he was fishing up front. I yelled I had one on and he though I was hung again......... Sometime around 1988ish.

Jeff

chubaka reply :

Wacky rigged Watermelon Senko

ReggieT reply :

Yep, a 2 pounder on a 7 inch Purple GillRaker in about 2 ft of water...1st and last!

Got plenty of plastic worms...just don't have plenty of patience!

Bluebasser86 reply :

Creme Little Scoundrel was the first plastic worm I can remember catching fish on. First bass on a T-rig was on a Mann's Augertail under a dock. I can still remember seeing the line twitch and move off after the initial fall.

Bankbeater reply :

I was fishing a t-rigged grape colored creme worm in some timber. I felt that familiar tap, tap, tap, and set the hook. I was a little dink, but I'll never forget it.

Dave P reply :

On 8/10/2013 at 11:02 AM, A-Jay said:

^^^^^^

This is me too.

I started fishing that natural colored job with the beads & little prop on the front.

A-Jay

Rigged worm.jpg

Same. Only mine was purple and it seemed like it had beaded chain molded in the middle that the hooks attached to. It was about 40 years ago, so...I might be "misremembering".

Diablos reply :

Summer of 1989. I was 14 years old and was at a cookout on Cape Cod. I took one of the fishing rods at the person's house already rigged with a black plastic worm and walked across the street to a pond. I caught my first bass after 10 casts and haven't stopped fishing since.

GeorgiaBassBros reply :

Watermelon red trickworm rigged on an aberdeen baitholder hook back when i was about 10. Been hooked on worm fishin ever since. I dont really get away from a texas rig very often

WRB reply :

Lake Shasta, 1957. Rigged Creme worm fished with a depsey sinker clipped onto a swivel clip with the rigged worm leader and dragging the rig over points. Two old guys showed me how to rig the "rubber worms" and gave me a few to try out. All the bass were over 3 lbs and couldn't get any bass on the lures we had with us on a family vacation. We ran out of the rubber worms and couldn't find them anywhere. Never will forget that experience.

Tom

Loop_Dad reply :

Jelly Worm, grape I think. So long ago I don't even remember for sure. Senko didn't exist yet. I think I'll pick some up and fish next time, just for fun memory of it.

Dingah reply :

i was like 5 years old, 4 inch yum dinger(one of my favs) black with blue flake, caught a 13 inch bass, been fishing dingers ever since

jignfule reply :

I was a young boy sitting on a dock. I man was fishing near by and caught a big fish on a plastic worm. I said "hey mister how do you work them" The nice man threw me a pack of worms and said "you don't work them, they work for you" but for the life of me I can't remember what the worms were called.

ReggieT reply :

On 8/15/2013 at 9:58 AM, jignfule said:
I was a young boy sitting on a dock. I man was fishing near by and caught a big fish on a plastic worm. I said "hey mister how do you work them" The nice man threw me a pack of worms and said "you don't work them they work for you" but for the life of me I can't remember what the worms were called.

Hmm...now that's whats up...an experienced fisherman "passing it on!"

Hella va story...thanks for sharing!

flechero reply :

I remeber it like it was yesterday... but it was 1981 and we had just moved to Tx. I can tell you exactly where I was, where I cast, what the weather and water conditions were to the "T". and it was a Barlow's poured purple "fire tail." (was also my new PB at the time- 4.5lbs) But, like most, I can forget my anniversary or wife's birthday on occasion. LOL

hookset on 3 reply :

The "tap" has been my addiction ever since 1973. Using a natural colored Crème Scoundrel and cast it out, felt the tap...... for that instant you don't know if it's a dink or a lunker. I tune out and it's all there is in my mind.

wnybassman reply :

I don't remember what worm I was using, or when it was exactly, but I do remember pre-rigging the Texas rigs the day before because the rigging technique was so foreign to me. It took me quite some time to get them straight enough. Some how I left a tag line off the hook, but have no recollection how I attached these pre-rigs to the mainline. I only caught one that next day, but was a two pounder or so, out of a local pond that took me about a 1/2 hour to get to by three-wheeler.

Arv reply :

Don't remember the bite, but it was definitely on a Zoom Trickworm in junebug. That used to be the ONE and ONLY worm I would use. The fish in my profile came one the same kind of worm come to think about it. I definitely remember that one.

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