Ribbon tail worm

[Les Young]

Guys over the years I’ve gotten pretty addicted to catching smallmouth & hardly ever catch largemouth anymore. Been fishing with a buddy for over 20 years & we used to do pretty good in tournaments, but after taking s break from them we started fishing smallmouth way more & using different lures. Long story short my buddy isn’t able to bass fish anymore so I’ve been going by myself a lot so I was  bound & determined that I was going to figure the largemouth out agin. Long story short I’ve been catching all largemouth & some pretty good ones too  for over a month by getting in the creeks & fishing big ribbon tail worms. This is a tough tough lake & ive been doing far better than any of my buddy’s & flat enjoying myself again more than in a long time. Proof the old school stuff still work as good as ever

[basscatlildave]

Yes sir. We use ribbon tail worms a lot down here. I was Grinnel fishing but look at the bass my buddy caught in 2 feet of 90 degree water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGQVDXumgTs&t=2s

[bassinfool]

A big ribbon tail worm is hard to beat in summer heat.

[Les Young]

Yes sir. We use ribbon tail worms a lot down here. I was Grinnel fishing but look at the bass my buddy caught in 2 feet of 90 degree water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGQVDXumgTs&t=2s
[/quote Good video Dave.

[Agronomist_at_ia]

Ribbon tails work great, Senko, buzz baits, poppers, jitter bugs, brush hogs, spinner jigs, swim baits, jerk  baits, heddon spook, heddon torpedo, whopper poppers, and a lot of others.

Generally I’ve found all the good old stuff and new stuff to work. I think people just tend to move away from the old style stuff towards the newer stuff do to what companies are pushing marketing wise.

I’ve been doing a lot of Large Mouth Bass fishing lately. Each trip I tie on a different lure and fish with it the entire trip…which is usually 2 - 3 hrs. Just to refine and learn/use different ways.

Today I fished a frog…..it’s a blast seeing them hit it and throwing into the Lilly pads and grass. Hook ups were a 50/50 on strikes….but man it was fun fishing in all that vegetation and getting some major strikes.

Trip before was a whopper popper caught 50 fish. It was crazy every cast caught one…I quit since I was sick of unhooking them.

Next trip……the old hula popper is coming out.

[Les Young]

I’ve got a few old hula poppers to throw too.

[Lamar]

  On largemouth my fishing partner will fish a worm just about all day long. I'm the other way. I'll toss a buzz bait in the morning and flip a jig after that. As a rule he will always out fish me but I'll normally catch the bigger fish. Most of our tournaments are won on a limit with a kicker. That's not to say a worm doesn't catch big fish because every now and then he'll wack a four or five pounder.

[Bass Boys]

  On largemouth my fishing partner will fish a worm just about all day long. I'm the other way. I'll toss a buzz bait in the morning and flip a jig after that. As a rule he will always out fish me but I'll normally catch the bigger fish. Most of our tournaments are won on a limit with a kicker. That's not to say a worm doesn't catch big fish because every now and then he'll wack a four or five pounder.

 My partner and I are the same , he is in front of boat with jig ,,  I follow with my senko style worm..  He catches more big fish than me ,  But I have to fish what he already fished and caught "maybe" the bigger fish that was in that spot before I fish it  ? ?   That's what I tell him anyway . LOL.

[Les Young]

Loaded the boat again last night. Hopefully it continues the next two nights too. All on the big worm.

[basscatlildave]

  OH YEA 

Loaded the boat again last night. Hopefully it continues the next two nights too. All on the big worm.

[Les Young]

Wind blew last night & I honestly believe it was to bright. I still caught fish on a little bit darker banks, but not the numbers I have the last few nights. Couldn’t get bit on banks with real bright moonlight shining on them even though I have every time there in the last month.   All  fish still on the big worm though