02-20-2004, 07:30 PM
There are a number of ways to fish a worm, depending on the water and the fish you are after. However, I have a universal way that works great for me in streams, lakes, trolling, etc. Rigging the worm on the hook is always the same. The difference comes in the other tackle, such as weights, bobbers, leaders, popgear, etc.
I pinch a whole night crawler in half and then, starting with the broken end of one of the halves, I thread the worm up the hook, like you are stringing the hook through the hollow part of a cooked elbow macaroni, until all but about 1/2 inch of the worm is on the hook. At that point I push the hook out the side of the worm again. I then pull the worm up the line until the worm straightens out and only the bend of the hook is sticking out the side of the worm. This way no matter where a fish bites, he has some hook or line in his mouth. When trolling it tracks through the water real nice. When still fishing it looks pretty natural and not all globbed up.
Once a friend of mine was shocked that I could catch any fish at all when trolling a popgear and a worm like that. He had been taught all his life that if any part of the hook was showing at all then the fish would not take the worm. Nah, it works fine. Even in when still fishing in crystal clear water the fish don't care about the hook. I've caught hundreds and hundreds of fish that way while doing all type of fishing.
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I pinch a whole night crawler in half and then, starting with the broken end of one of the halves, I thread the worm up the hook, like you are stringing the hook through the hollow part of a cooked elbow macaroni, until all but about 1/2 inch of the worm is on the hook. At that point I push the hook out the side of the worm again. I then pull the worm up the line until the worm straightens out and only the bend of the hook is sticking out the side of the worm. This way no matter where a fish bites, he has some hook or line in his mouth. When trolling it tracks through the water real nice. When still fishing it looks pretty natural and not all globbed up.
Once a friend of mine was shocked that I could catch any fish at all when trolling a popgear and a worm like that. He had been taught all his life that if any part of the hook was showing at all then the fish would not take the worm. Nah, it works fine. Even in when still fishing in crystal clear water the fish don't care about the hook. I've caught hundreds and hundreds of fish that way while doing all type of fishing.
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