As you know, I’ve been off the Senkos for a few weeks now, with varying results. This morning, I went for something completely different and decided to go retro, as in Texas-rigged Zoom blackberry colored U-tailed worms – which is where it all began when I first started fishing for bass here in Korea many moons ago. I caught a couple of dinks and quickly found out that worms with any kind of weight will get snagged on the rocks and other trash in the river. What to do, what to do…so I went completely crazy and tied on a 4/0 wide-gap hook and put on a Zoom 10.5” Monster worm, fished weightless. Did I really expect to catch anything? Honestly, nope.
Imagine my surprise when I caught not one, not two, but four fish! Three of them were the size of the one in the first pic, and then I caught that nicer one in the second pic. LOL, just goes to show you, or rather, goes to show me that it’s worth a shot to try things you haven’t tried in years or lures that you think the fish wouldn’t be interested in. Heh, I need to dig through my bags to see what other goodies I have stored away 
Old school, baby!
That’s great Nomad, thinking completely out of the norm and catching fish. I guess we all get stuck using one or two baits all of the time, and never give other baits a try.
Nice bass Nomad, good job!
WTG Nomad, Old school is right. I wonder if the purple worm with a curley tail will work. We fished that worm hard and had many results one year than I remember my buddy went back to the states and brought about 100 of them back and they wouldn’t even bring a bite the next year.
Steve,
Let’s see, we had jig week, spinnerbait week, and then a continuation of spinnerbait week, and maybe this week is “old school” worm week
I was going to also try some shaky heads out there but I know first cast = snag.
Ty,
I started out trying the smaller purple worms we used to use at Idong back in the day but I was fishing them with a bullet weight and it kept getting snagged so after a few times with me having to break off, I went with the bigger worm, weightless. Next time I go out, I’ll try some of the smaller worms again, weightless but the problem is they’re so light, you can’t cast them any distance at all.
Yeah, it all sounds crazy but I’m up for anything this time of year.
Ty,
By the way, when fishing those big worms, I wasn’t fishing them slow; I was fishing them fast like a jerkbait…a good jerk, then let it sink for a few seconds, jerk, let it sink etc…and every time, they hit it hard right after I jerked it. I’m guessing that the movement of that curly tail prompted them to strike. But then, they may like the color purple…what do I know?
Nice work on kicking it old school. I find that in fishing it has always been a good idea to try other tackle and lures settings. One time I switched to using a spinner for Trout up in Ontario at the advice of local fishing guy and caught about 20 nice rainbow trout. I found a good article on some different tackle type and tips that has helped me out.
You’ve gone Full Circle Nomad!! LOL Nice going!
Yes sir, back to basics – but it’s working!