| Plastic worms are the top lure among bass | | | | pound test line, but you won't be able to cast as |
| fishermen. They may not always catch the | | | | far. With 12 pound test and a medium-heavy |
| biggest bass and more tournament fishermen | | | | action rod, you are ready to go. When you decide |
| may be throwing jigs, but if you poll the weekend | | | | to use a weightless worm, you have to |
| bass angler, you are going to find bags and bags | | | | understand that it will take a few seconds for the |
| of plastic worms in their tackle box. They | | | | lure to sink to the 3 to 4 foot depth, which is |
| definitely work for putting good numbers of fish in | | | | where you want to be on most shallower |
| the boat as well as some big bass. | | | | weedlines. You will also have to let the worm fall |
| In this article, let's talk about fishing plastic worms | | | | for a couple of seconds after you twitch it. This |
| weightless. It seems like many different | | | | technique will take much more time to fish |
| techniques show up on television because of how | | | | correctly, which is one of the big negatives with |
| the latest bass tournament was won. There are | | | | fishing this way. The benefit of fishing with a |
| so many techniques that get anglers all excited | | | | weightless worm is that it appears much more |
| that most fishermen forget about some of the | | | | natural and you can catch some very nice bass |
| most effective ways to catch bass on a smaller | | | | this way. |
| lake. Most weekend anglers are going to fishing | | | | To maximize your time, work the weed lines or |
| smaller lakes in smaller boats, unlike that run and | | | | any other cover that you can find, but once your |
| gun style that you see from the tournament | | | | lure gets 4 or 5 feet away from the cover, wind |
| anglers. | | | | your worm back in and cast it out as close to the |
| On small lakes, there are usually plenty of good | | | | cover as possible. By keeping the worm in the |
| shorelines to fish that have weeds in the 4 to 12 | | | | strike zone longer, you will maximize your time on |
| foot range. These places are ideal for using | | | | the water. This presentation is very slow, so don't |
| weightless plastic worms. This means to fish with | | | | waste your time fishing open water. Hit the weed |
| a plastic worm and a hook with no additional | | | | edges, boat docks, trees and you will do well. |
| weight added to the line. I prefer to use a 7 to 11 | | | | For more information, take a look at our bass |
| inch worm with 12 pound test. If you are fishing | | | | fishing page. |
| heavier weeds, you can get away with 17 to 20 | | | | |