All the older fishermen I talk to say purple worms are "the best" any truth?

My dad loves those purple worms with the white stripes. ( the pre rigged ones). I have also had good luck with them.

Ive heard the same thing from alot of the local old guys. Personally i have had better luck with red shad or pumpkinseed colored worms. But grape worms have faired me well. Cant leave out just plain black either!

With all of our fancy colors, sometimes the basics just work best. Purple, Black, Yellow (not chartreuse, but regular old yellow...) will work anywhere.  Not as flashy to our eyes as Watermelon Candy, Green Moccasin or Fire and Ice, but still darned good.

My dad would always swear by a culprit grape worm. You'd think he had stock in the company with as many as he had. He caught fish on them, so i guess they worked.

LC

I am an old guy and I wouldn't say that purple is "best"...but I will say it was one of the most popular colors when I started fishing plastic worms in the 1960s.  They caught bass then - no reason why they won't now. I occasionally still fish Mann's Jelly Worms in black grape - they work - catch fish.

 

A coincidence that just yesterday I got this 21" 4.38lb LMB on an 8" Jelly Worm in black grape...

 

A buddy of mine kills them on a Blue Fleck Power Worm which he buys by the hundred pack. They are purple with blue flakes in them and they actually work very well. 

My old man says that his favorite worm of all time was a 7" purple/purple firetail worm that Mr Twister made.

Now days I can only find a black with purple firetail worm by Berkley.

I'm with Goose, when that Manns Jelly worm first came out I couldn't get enough of the 9" in Blkgrape, caught alot of nice fish on it.  Now I mainly fish the Blk Culprit worm deady on a C-rig. Going to be trying the Zworm  in elaztec on the C-rig, it floats see if it makes a difference.

I am an old timer and once had the nick name "purple worm". They could have said purple jig and that would have also fit me OK! PVJ purple vynl jig was my go to color.

Today over 40 years later I like purple in my worms and jigs as high light or accent color.

Oxblood red flake with purple vein, cinnamon with purple flakes, dark watermelon green with purple and red flakes, dark purple with neon blue vein, smokes with purple vein and black, silver, gold flakes.

Have you ever looked at a live night crawler or threadfin shad; purple highlites!

My go to jig color is anytime anywhere; combination of. Black/purple/brown skirt that dated back to the early 70's. several hundred DD bass can't be wrong!

Tom

Out of all my confidence baits, a purple-ish worm is my most confident bait. Could be purple with purple flake, or translucent purple, or solid purple. Don't ask me why or how... When ever I throw a purple worm, my mind can easily commit to the bait, and I have the thought "fish will eat this." Love em'.

A little purple worm is the deal on Table Rock with a dropshot a lot of the time. Blackberry is one of my favorite creature and worm colors (black with large purple flake) I tied some purple/silver flake jigs this winter and the bass have been liking them. 

Yep, I fish a drop shot on Table Rock and my go to worm is a Zoom Finesse in Old Purple.

I just found a purple worm on the ground this morning.  Usually if you find worms they're all torn up from being on a hook but this one was completely intact.  I'll have to give it a try.

Of course purple works as a color for bass.

 

Purple is used as a highlight color for plastics and jig skirts.

 

The problem is that the word "purple" is not used. The manufacturers use some fancy name so you have to look at the product to make sure it is what you want.

 

Us old timers, like Tom, used to use purple worms in the good ole days.  I think they were good ole days. What days? Who are you? Where am I?

 

Oops. Back to the thread. Then different colors came out; the tournaments and Classic started getting a lot of attention from the media and all of a sudden we are using crazy named plastics and have left the basic colors behind.

 

So use plastic purple baits. Especially in heavily stained water or at night. I think they taste better than the other ones out there.

A purple worm was the first color I remember fishing with, and it is still one of my confidence baits.

Rage Tail "purple" is Blue Fleck. I fish the Thumper and Anaconda in a variety of colors,

but this is my favorite!

Let's not forget the "bubble gum" craze of the 90's. At least it was that way where I was at in TN.

LC

I like to use the Trick Worm in black grape T-rigged and weightless, when fishing around docks in marinas.

Berkley purple worm is the first worm and even plastic I recall using when I was young.

Purple power worms was what we used constantly when i started fishing.  I recently bought some and the smell of it gives me flashbacks...haha.

Back in the '60's & '70's, just about all you could get were purple or black worms. So, naturally, if that's what everyone used (and I was one of them), you caught most of your fish on those colors. Today, we have most colors of the spectrum to choose from. I'm not so sure that it matters much. More important to me is how I am using what I am using. If that makes any sense!

Tequila Shad and Tequila Sunrise......Some of the best go to bait to caught lots of fish and big fish. 

Tequila Shad and Tequila Sunrise......Some of the best go to bait to caught lots of fish and big fish. 

Tequila Sunrise (just another variation of purple) along with variations of black, blue and green cover all of my plastic worm needs.

 

Tom

Of course purple works as a color for bass.

 

Purple is used as a highlight color for plastics and jig skirts.

 

The problem is that the word "purple" is not used. The manufacturers use some fancy name so you have to look at the product to make sure it is what you want.

 

Us old timers, like Tom, used to use purple worms in the good ole days.  I think they were good ole days. What days? Who are you? Where am I?

 

Oops. Back to the thread. Then different colors came out; the tournaments and Classic started getting a lot of attention from the media and all of a sudden we are using crazy named plastics and have left the basic colors behind.

 

So use plastic purple baits. Especially in heavily stained water or at night. I think they taste better than the other ones out there.

 

 

This post made me laugh.