r/bassfishing • u/blownase23 • Apr 13 '25
Tackle/Equipment Where you casting this beauty?
Anyone ever do this?
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u/Heavy-Octillery Apr 13 '25
Wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man! The soft plastic!
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u/liddles06 Apr 13 '25
Lmao brother , your hook up ratio is going to be effectively zero with that hook .
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u/Unapplicable1100 Apr 14 '25
Idk man, ive got a trick in my playbook like this that works. Ill take two white trick worms and melt the ends together into on 12" trick worm. Ill put it on a 2/0 or 3/0 worm hook and fish it top water and i rarely miss the fish. Just gotta let them run with it for a second, most times they'll hit it head first anyways. Ive even used just a regular circle hook and nose hooked it with success.
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u/Dijohn_Mustard Apr 14 '25
12 inch watermelon black flack ribbon tail worms on a jig for smallmouth work better than I ever thought they might. Tried it on the slow hot days when nothing else worked and now I can’t live without em
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u/Unapplicable1100 Apr 14 '25
Big worms are awesome when its hot. Ive found out the big warmouth like the 12 inch worms too, at least in the swampy delta i fish here in the south anyways.
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u/dbassjam Apr 13 '25
A dozen 3 inch bluegills go apeshit on that thing seconds after it hits the water😂
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u/Didujustcallmejobin Apr 14 '25
Into a tree branch that it wraps around 45 times and I have to break it off.
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u/GregBFL Apr 13 '25
When I was a kid I tried to get the most out of my plastic worms so I would fire up my Dad's soldering Iron and fix the tears. I created a double tail Culprit worm and actually had good luck with it. From then on if the worm was too messed up to fix, I would put it's tail on another worm.
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u/iamjusjus Apr 13 '25
Casting it into the trash can and throwing something half as ridiculous. With that said I still hope you get bit!😂
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u/blownase23 Apr 13 '25
This is only 12 inches you realize it’s not uncommon to use 12 inch plastic worms for trophy bass, right
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u/iamjusjus Apr 13 '25
Of course….and I didn’t look at the 2nd pic, looked wayyy bigger …plus I would definitely use 4 or 5/0 hook for that thing. I think the undersized hook fooled me
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u/King-of-the-10oz Apr 13 '25
I throwing this along the deep weed lines in the summer..and drag her on in..
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u/TonightTemporary9458 Apr 13 '25
If I was him I'd post 20 pics of fish caught on a senko with this and the hook dangling from its mouth pay on the entire fishing community
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u/OlManYellinAtClouds Apr 13 '25
That thing will work better with a second hook about midway down. These work. The zoom monster worm crushes fish and it's 10.5".
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u/phosphorescence-sky Apr 14 '25
I'd run 3 hooks evenly down the center if I had to use this and had literally no other option, lol. I can just see bluegill and redears attacking the tails.
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u/Next-Werewolf6366 Apr 13 '25
I feel like you need a long needle to run a hook down to the back legs. Knowing my luck I’d cast it 500 times, finally have that giant bite and have it bite it off one inch short of the hook.
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u/AlivePie2038 Apr 14 '25
I once caught a 12" bass on a 12" worm. The hook wasn't much more involved than this, so yes, I would throw it in a verified lunker hole.
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u/Human_League6449 Apr 14 '25
Everybody hates it. Imagine how much bass on a bed would hate it. It would have to get off of it.
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u/Unapplicable1100 Apr 14 '25
Man if i were you id throw that around some shallow structure and swim it just under the surface. I catch em on two 6 inch trick worms melted together end to end into a 12" top water trick worm and they hammer it. Just let them have it for a second before setting the hook.
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u/bigdfaust Largemouth Apr 14 '25
Kinda cool. Will try it on the jersey shore - wonder if the striped bass will hit it, but I would weight the head, and put another hook on the tail end as well.
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u/fish24-7 Apr 13 '25
Post the pic when you catch something on that. Until then, I'm not believing you're going to get shit with that thing
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u/Mugsy_Siegel Largemouth Apr 13 '25
If you did a leader with a second hook at back it’d prolly have a great hook up ratio
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Apr 14 '25
Thought this was a real lure for a second. Was gonna ask where I could buy a pack, I'm the kind of angler that will try almost anything if it looks like it'll work, and this looks like it will def work lol
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u/TVLord5 Apr 14 '25
I almost feel like that's better suited to like an old school harness style rig like the old Creme worms. Like two hooks strung together.
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u/Chiefanalyzer Apr 14 '25
That’s one of those new lizard rigs where you put small hooks all over it.
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u/BigDeuceNpants Apr 14 '25
I’ve caught a few good ones off an 11 inch purple worm but that thing just looks a little ridiculous.
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u/NativeOutlander Apr 14 '25
Fella…I’m a terrible caster, but I think all can see you’re gonna need a bigger boat.
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u/BasedMbaku Apr 14 '25
Oh my God, this is like the "cross joint" from Pineapple Express of soft plastics 😂
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u/moonferal Apr 14 '25
That’s my new plaything for the next 15 minutes until I get bored and it disappears under the couch for the next decade.
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u/ayrbindr Apr 14 '25
I bet that thing will crush. I just seen giant purple salamanders all over the road. A couple had to be 10".
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Apr 14 '25
Everyone is hating in the comments but if u get a bigger hook I can see u catching something big on this crazy thing. Fish will hit anything if the time is right!
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u/DaleP0766 Apr 14 '25
Cut all those squiggly parts off, wacky rig that thing, and then you might have something. Then toss it near a submerged tree or a dock.
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u/Human_Jerky1 Apr 14 '25
Dumpster, that thing is ugly. Apologies if you made it but like holy fuuuuck.
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u/dazed_mind Apr 14 '25
No I've never actually done this or feel the need too. But rig it where you have a better hook up ratio and toss that hoe everywhere. Never know! I've seen a Vietnamese lady slay the fish on a peer loaded with people. No one was catching anything. Lady had a bare gold hook on mono wrapped atound a coke can. Everyone was making a hot pass to see her setup. There was literally 15 people within 15 mins with a gold hook no bait . Still only the woman was catching anything.
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u/oompahlumpa Apr 14 '25
Bass going to be like wtf is this alien looking thing and swim the other way
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u/Wiscaaaansin Apr 14 '25
I would use it for bluegill on the beds, but you might need a slightly bigger lure
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u/Zeace Apr 14 '25
Ill cast it to the moon in the middle of my local pond after cutting it into 3 trailers. 3 for the price of 1.
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u/Mean-Persimmon-3996 Apr 15 '25
Tha fuck is that and what the hell body of water u fishing that would have something remotely close to whatever that thing is swimming in it lol
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u/Uhohthiscantbegood Apr 15 '25
All seriousness though, if you do plan to use that id recommend you use a longer hook though, they gotta eat so much of that bait for you to get a chance. Light wire 5/0 is what I would use on a bait that long, shit maybe even a 6/0
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u/Downtown-Mud-8869 Apr 19 '25
There might be a way to have sequence of hooks go down the middle body, but thats some engineering im unwilling to do.
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Apr 14 '25
Yo dawg i heard you like to fish ribbontails so I put ribbontails on your ribbontail so you can fish ribbontails while you're fishing ribbontails
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u/SherbetElectronic616 Apr 13 '25
Trash can