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Old 07-10-13, 10:08 PM   #1
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Default White Worm?

I've used white trick worms and flukes for a long time to work shallow cover like weeds and laydowns, but a couple of months ago while fishing a highly pressured clear water lake and faced with a tough bite I was digging around and came across a bag of 7" white Yum Dingers I'd bought years ago from a walmart bargain bin and stuck one on a 1/8 oz flick head. First cast out into some mid-lake standing timber in 20' caught a solid 5 lber before it ever hit the bottom. I figured it just to be one of those fluke casts that happened to drop right on the nose of a fish but 3 casts later another keeper then another etc. Now I'm throwing white tr senkos and white tricks on a shakey head in deep water and catching fish regularly. I guess what I'm saying is if you're not catching anything on watermelon or pumpkin give white a try and let me know if it works where you fish. If you've already been catching fish on white worms.....shame on you for not sharing..........don't hide it, divide it!
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Old 07-10-13, 10:14 PM   #2
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I've never used solid white worms much but I have done well with baby bass colored Senkos. They are basically green and white laminate. I will have to give solid white a try.
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Old 07-10-13, 10:52 PM   #3
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Ever throw a floating worm rig? White, pink and merthiolate are great colors. Not colors you would usually think of. You just experienced two of the truths of bass fishing: You never know until you throw it, and thinking "outside the box" can really pay off!
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Old 07-11-13, 06:04 AM   #4
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I have a package of 7" ribbon tail worms that's been sitting in a drawer for years. Just might have to dig them out and give them a try.
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I have done well during the spawn on white colors, but never tried it much out of that. I can see where it might give a thought of a baby bass or small blue catfish. If you don't think bass eat catfish, throw a chunk in a pond of fingerlings. I learned that lesson the hard way....
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Old 07-11-13, 06:24 PM   #6
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Ken, I too got a pack of white dingers out of a close out bin....that's as far as they got, out of bin, into car, box in my fishing room.
...till now.
Caught fair amount of smallies on a 3in. white grub and a ball jig last season and never even considered going deep with a dinger...till now.

Ken thanks for the tip!
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Old 07-11-13, 06:46 PM   #7
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Will have to try that out. Sometimes when I am throwing Horny Toads all they will hit is white.
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Old 07-12-13, 11:41 PM   #8
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Bob, only color horny toad I throw is white. If it ain't broke...
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I didn't think white senkos were a secret. I dont really consider senkos worms though, I fish them like flukes, albeit slower.

Now a white ribbon tailed worm....dunno. Maybe that works.
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Old 07-13-13, 07:09 AM   #10
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A white, wacky rigged Senko (or clone) is a well know producer around here. I don't have much faith in white "worms" though, it must be how they fall (Senko) that makes them a better option in that color, like mimicking a dying minnow.
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All senko's are worms. All worms are not senko's.
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Actually, technically, try a seach...
Senko's and their clones are classified as "stick baits" not worms so I agree with WTL on that one. I have no idea why the other comments were included.
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See, the reason I never considered them worms is, when a senko is white, I think it is imitating a baitfish, not a worm.
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All soft plastic "stickbaits" are worms. With the obvious exception of crawdad looking stuff (jigs) every lure we own (including every worm and even lots of jigs) is a baitfish imitation to some degree.

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I don't really think thats right, but okay. Its a pure semantic issue and thus given to different views. I don't think plastic worm is defined in Websters to set us straight.
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Smile I know better but...

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question...7174755AAJOk7e
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Old 07-13-13, 02:57 PM   #17
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion...

Go to BPS (the AUTHORITY) and type in "stick bait" and see what your search brings up.

"HARD" stickbaits AKA JERKBAITS. Soft stick baits AKA stick worms or simply stickbaits.

Semantics is all it is. Just because one says
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All soft plastic "stickbaits" are worms.
doesn't mean he's correct - except in his own mind, of course.

And here it will end - for me anyway. Back on the IGNORE LIST. Really? BIG BOLD TYPE? Is that supposed to make it easier to understand?

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Old 07-13-13, 06:32 PM   #18
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion...

Go to BPS (the AUTHORITY) and type in "stick bait" and see what your search brings up.

"HARD" stickbaits AKA JERKBAITS. Soft stick baits AKA stick worms or simply stickbaits.

Semantics is all it is. Just because one says doesn't mean he's correct - except in his own mind, of course.

And here it will end - for me anyway. Back on the IGNORE LIST. Really? BIG BOLD TYPE? Is that supposed to make it easier to understand?
I thought it says "big fat stiff worms".
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Old 07-13-13, 09:15 PM   #20
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Submitted for consideration.
Bo gets a call from Chris....I'm in Academy, do you want me to pick up anything for you while I'm here?
Bo: Yes pick me up 5 or 6 bags of rubber worms.
Chris: What kind and color?
Bo: 2 bags of white tricks and 3 bags of 5" white senkos.
Chrsi: OK I'll see you at the ramp at 6.
 
If anyone finds the above example of a typical exchange between fisherman hard to understand
or a semantic maze or unrelatable or unrealistic or even slightly wrong in any way you should probably add me to your ignore list as well.
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Its kinda small potatoes. Define that phrase while you're at it.
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To me, Senkos fall in the generic "worm" category but what do I know, I also call small hollow belly swimbaits, "paddle tails."
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guess I am odd but I think they are all worms, but I am with above example, yo pick me up some worms, what kind some pumpkin tricks, a few green senkos and some zoom etc.. ribbontais, they are all worms but have names, like they are all chickens but there is a hen and rooster. jeez we need new members or something cant believe there is a thread like this...
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I feel partly responsible for the board arguing about this. I was the first to object to calling a senko a worm. I think it technically incorrect, but not a big deal if it is or isnt.
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I never thought of it as an argument, but some cannot discuss a subject with different viewpoints when they consistently think their view is the only correct one (without supporting examples) and reject out of hand, without consideration, another point of view. But maybe the large bold type gave that impression, I don't know.

Everyone LOVES Tackle Warehouse - go search their "SOFT BAIT" category and you won't find Senko or the clones under "WORMS". You will find them, however, under "SOFT STICK BAITS". They are a separate class of plastic baits in their own niche (sub classification?). You can call them whatever you want, it just helps to be a bit more specific when speaking of the myriad types of soft plastics and avoid some confusion, when possible.

As long as everyone is one the same page and understands what you're talking about there won't be a problem. But ask me for a "worm" and you may get 6 different baits - NONE of them will be a "senko". But if you fish with another that thinks of a senko style bait as a worm you'll probably get what you want and that's just fine by me.

"When in Rome..." and on that note - if I just came back from upstate N.Y. and told you we wacked bass big time on crabs... what bait would come to mind? I would not consider a crawfish a crab, but that's what they call them up there and everyone from the area knows what they're talking about, me - I had no clue.

If a crawfish can be a crab, then a "senko" can be a worm, but it does nothing to make the meaning (or distinction) clear in the initial conversation.

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