fishing lures? Bass Catfish?
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I go fishing in the lake at hanna park (huge lake). I just started to fish from a long break. I was using live worms that i cut into smaller portions. They caught me very small fish like hand sized.(bass and ect). So first off i turned over to a spinning reel for a far cast because my other rod can only cast like 6 feet away. I saw alot of videos about the wacky worm and decided to go out on a 6 hour fishing day this saturday and try it out. Any tips on the wacky worm or any good colors, hooks, and places to cast. I am looking for decent sized fish! Their is defenetly bass and catfish in the lake. I really dont want to come home empty handed! THANKS!
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i live next to a lake full of musky, perch, sunfish, bluegill, crappy, bass and catfish and some more and night crawlers (worms) work really good on catfish but usually only in the morning and the evening- and for bass i use spinners and stuff and whenever i go i get a really good outcome…..
good luck that sounds really fun hope you get some
the only way i know to explain it is that when you cast out to your desired distance let it fall to the bottom of the lake or to whatever depth you like and bring the rod up which lifts the worm up and makes like a V shape then let it fall back and straighten back out and while your letting it back down reel the slack in. i hope you can understand me but that’s the only way i know to explain it.
Depend on water clarity to fish a different color of worm. In clear water, white/silver/blue/cinnamon colors work the best. In murky water black w/ chartreuse/black/fire tail colors/etc. work the best. A good all around set-up would be this.
8-pound mono-filament or fluorocarbon with a Spinning reel, a size-4 Octopus hook, wacky worm hook, or bait-holder hook, and a 5″ watermelon Senko.
when all else fails, use a black or purple worm. use a four or five bass hook and a small weight. fish it slow and wait for any bumps or taps on your line.reel in the slack and set the hook hard. fish off of points, drops offs, river channels, around shade and brush. if you were a fish, where would you feel safe. fish there.
senko worms are perfect for the wacky rig. They have a very natural, slow rate of descent, but they aren’t very durable.
Slide a a cross-section cut from a tube jig over the worm and stick the hook through that, or a rubber o-ring, works fine.
Just let it sink slowly. The slightest twitch ever now & then. I swear it looks more like a fish than a fish does.
Watermellon seed is good, or watermellon/red flake. Sometimes a gold hook adds just the right amount of flash to trigger a strike.
Try dipping the tail of the worm in yellow Spike-it dye. But don’t spill it on anything.