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1) Old School Berkley Power Worm (Black/Blue Fleck) for tough days 2) Berkley Flat Worm 3) Yamamoto Senko 5" 4) Bandito Bug 5) Zman TRD - (don't sleep on the old school Tube either) This is great Tyler Thanks
Great video. I swim a Rage Bug and the bass tear it up!!!! People are like that’s now how to use it lol. I just thought it was awesome you were swimming a Sweet Beaver 😂. Thank you for all the awesome videos.
This is my first time commenting I’ve watched every episode of your show 2-3 times 1.chompers hula grub green pumpkin 2.robo worm 4” salt and pepper chartreuse 3. 2.8 Keitech Tennessee shad 4. Deps cover scat 2.5 5. Berkeley flat worm 3 inch green pumpkin 6. 4” purple power worm
Awesome list!!! Mine is #5 Zman Finesse TRD 2.75 #4 Zman TRD Craw #3 Zoom Finesse Worm #2 Nikko 3 inch Hellgrammite #1 4 inch curly tail worm My top two selections have caught me some 5 plus pound spotted bass out of some small crystal clear streams while wading
I'm not sure that I knew there was another worm other than a 7.5" Culprit until I was in my late 30's. Being hyperbolic here but I honestly don't think that I owned or fished anything else growing up. I think if you excluded the Senko, I've probably caught more on a 7.5" ribbon tail that all other soft plastics combined. I owned two rods in my early 20's when I finished college and could/had to buy my own stuff. One always had a spinnerbait and the other always had a 7.5" Culprit on it. Almost 30 years later, I still have at least one of those two tied on whenever I go out.
I cant argue with any of these tbh. I miss the days with a pack of black power worms and some hooks in the pack in my back pocket walking ponds. Good times.
Swimming a beaver in the early- mid part of summer definitely gets bit, but not just a beaver, anything that you can pretty much get away with swimming, as the water warms up, after bass spawn, after panfish spawn, the bass terrorize the panfish fry and 4”-6” “panfish” perch, bluegill, brim, crappies.. on a lake I’ve done very well at this year, catching a limit or so every visit (probably 25+ visits on kayak) and I’ve caught em every way you can imagine. The last week like a switch going off they wouldn’t touch anything but a black senko. Had to be straight black. And it had to be on the fall, or swimming it. This is a tell tale sign (for me) to start throwing a finesse swim jig or bitsy bug- try that the next time the beaver swim is actually the only way to get bit. Also try all black senkos when the bites tough. With a fast fall rate. 3/8oz to 1/2.. check out my catches both in numbers and quality (especially the smallmouth) on ADKyakman fishbrsin I have a few videos on here but terrible quality can’t figure out the transfer method
1) Robo Worm 6" in Aaron's Magic 2) Zoom Baby Brush Hog 3) Googan Baits Bandito Big (the scent seems to work regardless of how you feel about the group) 4) Zoom Fluke 5) Keitech Fat Impact All the bass lakes around me are mostly rough granite boulders and sunken trees. TRD works but dragging something on light line means re-tie every other cast or risk breaking off.
My top 5: 5. Googan Bandito bug 4. Z-man Ned TRD 2.75 3. Zoom tiny fluke 2. Zoom Trick Worm 1. Zoom finesse worm Just caught a 4lb 13oz PB on a zoom finesse worm the other day.
Tournament on the ct. river this year- snagged a 10" texas rig in a laydown+ broke it off, tyed on an old eagle claw leadhead w offset worm hook I used to throw alit more w that exact power worm on it& bam! 2.7 smallie off a rockpile first cast! Yeah, I brought that one out a few times since& it gets good fish.
big thanks for sharing. Please make a vid on how you rig the 7in worm and maybe some ways you dont rig it. the softbait i use the most is berkley power swimmer
Top 5 plastics are fluke(caffeine shad) , flat worm or flat worm style baits, a senko (green pumpkin magic or black that’s all I use, sometimes the two tone black/natural red) ,spunk shad- I’m seperating that from fluke because I’ve caught bass 12 different ways w a spunk shad. Ned rids drops shots, scroungers, chatterbait trailers, swimming them, moping them, strolling them, and neko rigging them, I know you can do all that with a fluke I just have more confidence in the variation of size for the technique I’m using and the bait always same style no matter the size. Which is a feature not talked about.. someone will say a certain baits “the best”- but what size?? Cuz it matters greatly, on a lot of baits the size change also makes a plastic change, appearance change whether it’s more or less..ya know? And in guess a TRD.. and a trick worm
I’m right there with you on three of your picks. The senko, the Berkley ribbon tail worm ( although I gravitate towards the 10”) and the Zoom fluke. The fluke fished singularity is great, but fished on a double fluke rig is insane! However, my number one go to soft plastic for more than a year now is the 4 1/2” whale by 6th sense. I use a Gamakatsu 4/0-1/16oz swimbait hook. It’s a meaty bait for its size and with the light belly weighted hook you can bring it over cover ever so slowly. With an occasional twitch or pop it drives the bass crazy, and with its big paddle tail you get a nice consistent thump even at a crawl. I honestly wouldn’t leave home without them!
My top 5 are 1: Senko 2: Trick worm 3: Sweet Beaver 4: Fluke 5: Z-Man TRD Honorable Mention: Culprit 7” Original worm or 7” Power worm And one nobody thinks about and forgets is the Netbait Paca craw
1 senko 2 toad 3 hair jig 4 mulletron 5 goby swimbait (either brand), I would also put this one as a tie with a bass asassin saltwater series paddle tail.
1. Zman TRD 2. Yamamoto senko 3. Keitech fat impact 4. RI sweet beaver 5. Zman SMH worm 6. Zman GOAT. …. These are the baits I use when I’m struggling. There are few others I like but always go back to these 6.
On my river in Ohio I catch alot on a Strike king Rage menace grub as a swim jig trailer, BPS Stik-o wacky rigs, Zoom trick/finesse worm shakey heads, paddletail swimbaits on a BPS speed shad head and a tube jig.
Love all those baits but I would probably put the roboworm in instead of a powerworm. My personal top 5 (In no order) Senko, roboworm, netbait paca craw, brushhog, fluke!
I never state a specific brand/company anynore because so many make basically the same bait and they all have the same or similiar action that just cahtch fish. You meantioned kietech swimbaits and ive had very little luck on them lol but have caught thousands of fish on paddle tail swimbaits. I always have at least three brands ill say are in the best for me in a style if bait. Like a stick bait, Yamamoto senko, yum dinger and strike king ocho. All three are great stick baits all three have conditions they shine in. So thats why i never say just one brand of a certain bait especially when theres so many options in that bait style. Ned turd style baits are the same way theres plenty that simply catch but...zman generally out lasts all in durability.
Damn good line up there Tyler I use them also. Question about your hats what type of adjuster do you use I cannot see it in any of your pictures. Keep up the great content.👍👍👍👍 👍
