I played hooky yesterday to take advantage of the full moon & perfect spring conditions here in Southern California.  Within the first 15 minutes, I had 3 short strikes on a 6" Roboworm, either nipping of the tail or pulling it off the hook.  I switched to a smaller 4" worm, which solved the problem.

 

As I went along, I had found that many female fish were positioning themselves on the outside edges of the docks & were hitting the 4" Roboworm on the drop.  I came to one dock at the entrance to a cove and got a strike right at the corner of the dock.  I swung, missed and found when I retrieved that the 4" worm had been taken off the hook.  I re-rigged, cast to the same spot, another strike, another miss, another empty hook upon retrieval.  I'm sure now that either a couple of male bass or large bluegill had set up shop there, but I wanted to be sure.  I make a third cast with a 4" worm to that spot, get a third strike but this time connect on the hook set.  To my surprise, it wasn't a male bass, rather a chubby 2 lb. female (I think).  As she neared the boat, she jumped & shook her head.  I thought I saw her throw the Roboworm off my hook & sure enough, I noticed it sinking slowly next to the boat.  Then I noticed a second Roboworm also sinking next to the boat.  I looked back to the surfacing fish & my 3rd Roboworm was still attached to the hook.  The bass had thrown up the two worms I had lost on the previous 2 casts!

 

I quickly scooped up the two sinking worms and landed the fish.  I know the worms were mine, they had the crawdad scent I put on them still there, you could smell it.  I don't know if she was the one short striking or if she was just hanging out nearby & swiping worms stolen of the hook by smaller bass & bluegill.  Either way, she sure found those Roboworms delicious and was nice enough to return all 3 to me after she was done tasting them.

The bass like returning roboworms to you

That's awesome!! Thanks for sharing.

Nice!!

Do you have any Idea how to get a bass to return my S Waver from last week?