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What Color Worms For Bass?
Jul 19, 2022
Check out https://fishingatwork.com/what-color-worms-for-bass to learn more. When you are thinking about what color worms for bass you are targeting, you have to think like a fish. Most people don’t try to understand fish enough when they go fishing. This leads to disappointment and frustration when the creature you thought was simple turns out to be complicated. This video goes through the ends and outs of what a bass thinks when encountering a lure like a plastic worm. Baits that trick or mimic will always do the best. Enticement baits are for extra qualifications or reaction bites. Please read the full article at https://fishingatwork.com/what-color-worm-for-bass Here is a great list of videos about bass fishing. https://youtu.be/XZDsZuwPnyU https://youtu.be/XBgPN3LXGAI https://youtu.be/voJWIcQ5m7g https://youtu.be/y9-ZNcg73hc https://youtu.be/-s8kywl3iwM Here is a great list of my fishing tip videos. https://youtu.be/XZDsZuwPnyU https://youtu.be/eFInPabnwT0
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Hello this is Dwight Norris of Fishing at Work here on the Charles River here to talk to you
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about the well what color worm for bass should you use there are a variety of colors of bass
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worms lizard worms or pretty much any plastic bait that you can generally use and if you've
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probably looked around there are a couple colors which people are really
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into or they they're this that's what they do that's their bread and butter
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and they won't go to anything else but I have a different viewpoint on what you
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should use for your plastic lures worm or whatever color selection I believe
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that you should go by what you have in your local area or what the bass may
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perceive as a color that you should see in its current environment. So let's hit
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upon one of the most popular things which is the pumpkin seed color. It's kind of
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brownish, as you see here, which is very close to the normal color of an earthworm, per se
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And you would only see earthworms in certain places. It would be along the shoreline
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it would be after a rainstorm, and they would either be crawling up, and somehow the erosion
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or whatever would make them fall into the water. And when that happens
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they're going to have a little wiggly action. They'll be trying to escape and the tail here
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will try to simulate that actual action when it's falling into the water. So that is the
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general reason why you get a bite during that first drop. They're expecting it to fall in the water
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and try to escape. It's going to wiggle, it's going to shake, but it's not really going to
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fly through the water like a like a minnow or something. So if you try to do a fast retrieve
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it's not going to work because they're not going to be tricked into thinking a minnow
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looks like a worm. That's why you're used to the slow retrieves or the Texas style
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bullet weight and the bouncing along the bottom and also the slow dissension of an unweighted
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unweighted worm. Now that that has been crossed, naturally colored baits such as this Berkeley
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Power Bait Power Worm and pumpkin seed color is really good. Now if you're wondering about the
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sparkles, that's really just to get the attention of the bass or whatever fish is after it and then
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once it gets the attention it can then do the second stage of investigation
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which is is this real or not it will see it's a brownish color it looks like an
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earthworm or some kind of natural worm that's more or less seen only on land
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and then it will say hey I recognize that I've eaten it before and then it's
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gonna go to the third stage which is actually tasting it it's gonna put in
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its mouth, hopefully at least halfway, which will, and usually about head first, it'll take
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the hook with it as well, just the edge of the hook, hopefully, and then it'll take a taste
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And at that point, if you have a plain plastic bait, it's going to know decently quick within
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I don know two three seconds at the most that this isn real and it might spit it out Or it might just hold it in its mouth and just look for something else and forget it there I seen that before but generally it gonna
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test it and then spit it out if it's not truly hungry and it's ravenous and in instinct mode
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but if it is a really finicky bass it will need something else, a fourth level, to actually get it
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to actually swallow the whole thing whole if it's not a reaction bite
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Reaction bites, they just suck the whole thing down before they even think. They don't care about the taste. They see it. It looks smaller than them
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They eat it immediately and if something bad goes on, they'll spit it out later
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But when they're finicky, you need a fourth level. And that fourth level is going to be taste
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So scented baits, either the spray-on kind with the Berkley or the mold-injected scents here that help the fish hold on to the bait, supposedly
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which I've tested, is actually near true, 18 times longer, which comes out to 18 seconds
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On average, they believe that an unscented bait will only last one second in a fish's mouth
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before they actually spits it out. I've seen between one and three, so that's fairly accurate
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I'd say 18 times longer but more like 10 times longer is probably a better way to describe it
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But with that fourth level they're all in and that gives pretty much anybody the chance
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to hook the fish. They'll either feel the weight of the fish, they'll feel the fish moving away
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from them, or they can see their line either getting slack, a lot of slack all at once and
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and there's no holes there for it to fall into, or the line's moving left or right
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Those are generally the things you're gonna see. And with that given amount of time, 18 seconds, a long time
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you'll either be able to hook the fish, or hopefully it doesn't start eating it
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and then you hook it poorly inside of his stomach, and then you really have to have some technical tools
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like kinda like that Mr. Crappy Popper, that pops up out and keeps the barb
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wrapped around the device so you can slide it out without grabbing something else
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It's a great device and there's some others just like it. We can do that with pliers too if you're really good
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It takes a little experience, but the smaller the mouth of the fish, the harder it is to
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see and do. So another color that's popular is one of the, I have an example here of the Zoom Trickbait
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You saw me do it in the Zoom Trickbait video. But it's a solid black color
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people are wondering what is a solid black clutter supposed to do there are a variety of worms which
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are very dark they don't have much going on with them and the black kind of covers that also in
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certain situations when a fish is looking at something all it sees is a the dark silhouette
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like a silhouette of a worm if you have like sparkles or something it might get confused is
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that fish? I mean is that a worm? Is it not a worm? Is it a fake? And if you give them a plain like
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ribbed black worm that's like has a nice smooth texture all those they'll think it's like a shadow
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or a silhouette of a worm following. If you give it the right action you can you're more likely
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will get a reaction bite from them rather than a finicky bite and they'll be like oh it looks like
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a worm. I can't tell. It doesn't have any sparkles. It doesn't have anything that makes me want to
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think it's not real, someone's gonna suck it up and eat it
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And then boom, you have your reaction bite, which you obviously want more than the finicky
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I'm gonna nibble on this bite. That one of the tricks of a trick worm Also using it when it weightless helps too with the action So you get the action right you get the shadow right when it hiding you can actually
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trick it. Another big color is I said pumpkin seed but there's also watermelon seed which is more of
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green color and they're exactly green worms. They're, you can say they're
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gonna be some sort of greenish ones but not traditionally. Traditionally the area
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you're working your fish around are green. You have lily pads or you have like a
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brown log and the pumpkin seed will kind of kind of like camouflage with the log
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and the watermelon seed will camouflage with the grass and the lily pads and
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leaves and wherever else is in the water. Green and brown is very prominent in
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pretty much every water. I'm looking at a very large swath of green blue algae
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along with that helping the grass explode because of the 90 degree
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plus heat forever and ever around here in stagnant water which helps cyanobacteria
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bloom. So the fact is that the green color itself makes it look like the worm has been in the
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environment a while and it started to, well worms aren't really camouflaged, but it's kind of like
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a silhouette thing. It's trying to hide, it can't tell that it's a fake worm. So it has to go by the
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silhouette or the color that it sees. It sees green but it looks like a worm. So they get one
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curious, and two, they have a reaction bite that they'd rather have a meal than guess it's not a
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meal and then be hungry. Take what's given to you. That's what I believe the largemouth bass
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motto is. Whereas mymouth bass are most fish that can get their mouth around this six inch of worm
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and with that you have another type of reaction bite. It's a little, I'd say it's not quite as
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good as a black worm because a black worm is like a complete shadow. They have no idea what it is
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It just looks like a worm. It looks like maybe an eel, which I saw a bird find over here amongst
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all this grass and then suck it down. So if you're in certain areas where American eels go up the
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rivers it could look like an eel because an eel is black it's shaped the same way
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it moves a similar way except that it swims to the water so having a faster
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retrieve a faster bounce along the bottom which is where you will find the
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eels could actually get you some action with the bass and you could use a
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slightly different technique but most people don't think about eel fishing for
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bass unless it's a striped bass which is what they're very popular for doing
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But it can work for largemouth bass too if those eels come into the river just like I am here
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Because the ocean is only a mile away from where I'm standing right now. And there's only a small dam that actually splits it
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So there are many other colors. Purple, yellow, neon, etc., etc., etc
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but in all reality, pretty much every other color other than black, watermelon seed slash green
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and pumpkin seed slash brown are just trying to get reaction bites
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It looks, they get, they're really, not reaction, but, but yes reaction It more of the get the fishers attention and to get a reaction bite on top of that You don want them to think Because if they think about a purple worm I think they know that it not a worm
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You want them to see what looks like the shape of a worm and get the reaction bite
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So pretty much every other color is a reaction bite. A lot of these you can trick the worm with using your technique, using the shadows
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using a confusion or using scents as well once you get them attracted
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And that can make them hang on later and question their own mind whether this is a real worm or not
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So Zoom worm colors are vast as well. They sell them all because you know people do buy them all
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but they know that their mainstays are going to be one on seed, pumpkin seed, black, and maybe a
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a few others that go along this line as well and then maybe somebody will grab some random ones
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in case the fish are going crazy and they'll throw a purple one and they want only crazy reaction bites
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on top of that. They want them to see it and like not miss it through some dark water
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Big purple, big neon and that's how they're going to bite. Now on the ocean you may see people with
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glow sticks added to the bait to get bluefish who are very aggressive to do the same thing. It's
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really dark, they go at night, they put the bait down, they can smell it, but they have a little
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attractant of a light going to it. They're more likely to go toward the light like a moth
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and then they see the bait, which gives you a higher probability of catching fish in the area
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while everybody else is going in dark mode, and you have a single light there like an angler fish
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luring them in, and then once they see the bait under the light, they bite it. It's the same thing
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happens appears the fish go to the light and the bigger fish come in to get the smaller fish
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so if you're looking for a zoom plastic worm they're fantastic i would say go for the zoom
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trick worms and go to the zoom trick worm article that i have on the on the website
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and you'll see exactly how you can use these what techniques you can use how to how to hook it how
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how to rig it, weightless, weights, Carolina rig, etc, etc. And make sure that when you're looking for
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or when you are actually trying to buy different warm colors, that you think about
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the things I've said today about how worms are going to bite
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Stick with your brown and greens and your blacks. And then grab a few around in that area
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if you wanna play around or you're into a very unique situation, dark water, aggressive fish
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you want to try something else out but in reality for a mainstay and a basic lure selection you
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should stick with the brown the green and the black so hopefully that answers your question
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or what color worm for bass you should use and you can get out there and go fishing and have a
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