Worms work great in clear and muddy water alike. It’s great for fishing on long casts and working an area thoroughly to see if bass are there. It’s narrow profile helps it come through cover, but a long curl tail will have a tendency to grab on to things underwater. There are lots of ways to fish a worm and they work in a variety of conditions. Some worms have a vibe tail on the end that has a cut in it so that as you steadily reel it in, it vibrates subtly under the water. Each tail is designed to give the worm some sort of lively action as you lift it off the bottom of the lake and let it settle back.

You have paddle tails, curl tails, straight tails, vibe tails and more. Plastic worms come in a variety of lengths with a variety of tails. Creme introduced anglers to a new way to catch bass many decades ago, but a plastic worm has stood the test of time as a productive way to catch bass all over the country. Probably the easiest of the soft plastics to start learning to fish with would be a simple plastic worm. Most soft plastics are either going to be rigged on a hook either Texas rigged, wacky rigged, Carolina rigged, nose hooked, Tex-posed or otherwise hooked, or they will be rigged on some sort of jighead and fished open hook.

There is an amazing array of colors, shapes and sizes when it comes to soft plastics and there are hundreds of different types plastics available. Soft plastics are essentially combinations of salt, plastic, sand, glitter, and coloring shaped and formed into anything that can be perceived to be alive by a bass. This category could take ages to explain so we’ll try to keep it as simple as possible. And knowing which plastic to use for different situations for bass fishing will eliminate a lot of wasted time on the water. There won’t be a big splash like a topwater or a hard tug like a crankbait. It requires patience to fish with these lures generally speaking because you have to feel the fish pick up or bite the lure, often when it’s not moving. The best way to develop your feel for bites is by bass fishing with soft plastics.

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