It's time I learned how to fish.

[Irving]

GilpenGuy, can you post a picture of the rubber worms you used? Are they the same jig type that I posted earlier in this thread, or the ones that just look exactly like worms?

[GilpinGuy]

GilpenGuy, can you post a picture of the rubber worms you used? Are they the same jig type that I posted earlier in this thread, or the ones that just look exactly like worms?

Here's a good demo. In NY we used 6" or 8" rubber worms for this and routinely dragged out 5 lb. bass. Frankly I'm not sure what would be best in CO, but I'd go with 6" or so. The guy in this video uses a 12" worm which is HUGE.


Here's a few pix of what I have on hand:

Note that you need 3 things for this rig: the cone shaped weight, the hook and the worm. The hook in this pic is a little small for this rig (all I had at the moment), but you get the picture. We always used straight shanked hooks, not the off-set ones that the guy in the video used. But they are probably just as good.


Here's what it looks like with the hook in, but not on a line, obv.



To keep it "weedless" you push the tip of the hook through the body of the worm until it just barely comes through. That way it won't snag on weeds.

To work these jigs, we would cast the rig out and let it sink to the bottom. Then we would reel in a few feet and stop, giggle the worm a time or two, then reel in a few feet, giggle a time or two, over and over again. Best bass set-up I ever used. Good luck!

[meatman]

My neighbor Tom with our catch from Standley Lake 7/8/2012


I caught my first walleye (barely a keeper at 15") and my biggest smallmouth (about 18").

We used a night crawlers on a Lindy Rig and back trolled around 18-24 ft deep.

[DEAGLER]

My neighbor Tom with our catch from Standley Lake 7/8/2012


I caught my first walleye (barely a keeper at 15") and my biggest smallmouth (about 18").

We used a night crawlers on a Lindy Rig and back trolled around 18-24 ft deep.

Nice! Can I cast from shore using night crawlers?

[meatman]

Nice! Can I cast from shore using night crawlers?

I'm pretty sure you can, but I'm not sure if you'd come up with anything of size. The first fish I caught yesterday was in about 15 ft of water and it was a 4" smallmouth. I guess it depends on where you are.

I'm not sure what other people fishing from shore were using, but I saw quite a few people out there.

[DEAGLER]

Funny story: I caught a small blue gill once. As I was gonna reel it out of the water a huge LM bass swallowed the blue gill. 2 for 1!