old timers

[jim m]

how many guys on here beside myself been around long enough to remember when rubber worms came on the scene. fished em on a lead head jig exsposed hook and man would they catch fish [still do]

[Jerry Rapp]

late 60's, I was 11 or 12 years old.  I remember my first plastic worm bass quite well.  A Crème 6 inch worm, natural night crawler color.  It was at Wappapello.  The hook was probably a weedless hook that had a wire weed guard.

[timinmo]

I remember them melting a hole in my UMCO(?) tackle box.  

[Al Agnew]

Caught my first fish on a plastic worm about 1967.  A buddy and I first tried them on a farm pond, neither of us knowing anything about how to fish them.  First bass picked up his worm.  He let it run with the worm for a bit, then turned to me and asked, "When do you think I should set the hook?" Just then the bass leaped about two feet out of the water trying to shake the worm.  "Right about now," I said.

[RSBreth]

2 hours ago, Al Agnew said:

Caught my first fish on a plastic worm about 1967.  A buddy and I first tried them on a farm pond, neither of us knowing anything about how to fish them.  First bass picked up his worm.  He let it run with the worm for a bit, then turned to me and asked, "When do you think I should set the hook?" Just then the bass leaped about two feet out of the water trying to shake the worm.  "Right about now," I said.

That's one of the only things I like about being generation younger than you Al - we already had the good stuff and knew how to use it - but we don't have the little asides like that about our first experience with it.

[DADAKOTA]

How aboput the multi hook ones with a spinner and beads on them?

[jim m]

1st time I used them was the late 50's out of lead hill on bull shoals. they were made by creme a natural worm color and they  stank. they have come a long way

[Gavin]

Had a purple crème worm with the spinner & beads on it...never caught anything with it.

 

 

[Ham]

The first plastic worms I remember were Fluttertail brand. You got them ina  bag of mixed colors. All the colors of the rainbow in one bag. Soon after Fliptail worms became available.

I caught a pile of fish on the Crème rigged worms. I threw them on my Zebco 404 before I moved up to a Zebco 606. I had a really good Zebco 33, but it was a little light for the fish we were catching on the rigged worm.

I slow rolled them around coontail beds in the Bayou Pigeon area. Some of the grass had not topped out and you could slowly wind it over that or you could retrieve it aound the edges of the beds or in the channels between grass beds. Simply awesome.

Flood waters of 1973 killed all the coon tail and caused massive areas to silt in. I so wish I could go back to 1972 and fish with the equipment and skill set I have now.

 

[Terrierman]

5 hours ago, DADAKOTA said:

How aboput the multi hook ones with a spinner and beads on them?

Fished them with my uncle on Hunnewell Lake in the early 60's.  And cleaned a bunch of bass too.