I got a serious fetish for Blackberry Jelly Worms.

15 minutes ago, Harold Scoggins said:

I got a serious fetish for Blackberry Jelly Worms.

Might want that looked at.

An old guy with a bunch of wall hangers in his den told me to focus on technique until I got the hang of it.  He said to use braid and t-rig a zoom trick worm.  That is all I did for a summer.  Worked for me.  

 

Then branch out.

I understand your challenge, and trying to keep your soft plastics to a minimum is a challenge since I tend to use softbaits most of the time, either weightless, texas rig, c-rig, trailer on jigs etc....

 

My biggest issue was always bringing too many colors, so now I try to keep it to maybe 3 for each style bait. Green Pumpkin, Junebug, Black blue, and then I guess I am lying cause I would always have watermelon Red and red shad as well....So 5....For worms...

 

For worms, I think you are good with most stick baits, for action, a curly tail worm vs. Ribbon tail etc. should not matter much, and then for finesse, you can pretty much get by with some zoom trick worms and be good in worm category..Then a Speed worm for topwater.

 

One way to help keep it "Simple" is maybe just pick a brand like Zoom or Strike King, BPS and just look at the total lineup and just bring a few packs of the 3-4 categories you like to fish.

 

Swimbaits, Flukes, Worms, Finesse and small stuff, Craws/Creatures...That kind of covers it. And Tubes, Small Grubs..Yea, I can't help with this one, I have same problem and its never gotten better in 20 years.