I was talking with a guy the other day who said he always clips off 1/8 to 1/4 from the head of plastic worms with a taper. Examples would be Zoom Trick, and Finesse worms, Cream Scoundrel style or any tapered head worms. When Texas rigging, he said the bullet slip sinker has a flat surface to set on, won't wobble around, and gives a little more plastic around the hook eye.Im wondering if others do this with these worms? Does it work better for you? 

I don't start out that way, but after a few fish I often remove the head to keep it on the hook.

If you look at most bullet sinkers they are not flat on the bottom. Don't think it matters either way.

 

I do it sometimes  . Trick worms I do it quite a bit with weights and jig heads .

I tried it once awhile ago but didn't see any real advantage so I stopped. 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

All my bullet sinkers are concave at the base. Besides, if a fish refuses my worm because the bullet weight wobbles, I have a much bigger problem to deal with.

I only clip it off for rigging on a shakyhead with a screwlock. T rigging I leave it alone.

I only trim off the end after it gets torn up.  As long as the worm is in good shape I leave it alone.

Don't think it matters either way.

I don't clip off the tip of a new worm unless there is some molding irregularity. But after a couple bites on the Trick Worm, I'll bite off (they really are salty) the first 3/8-1/2" and re-rig it. Fish don't care and you actually probably get more bites on the smaller worm. But that's not a weighted T rig, though I don't see any difference weighted.

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Oooohh yaah, I do bite the heads off of my worms. I like to shorten up my worms sometimes to place the hook further back into the worm.  This was before tungsten and I was using strictly 7" and 10" Berkley power worms, 3/0 & 5/0 Gamakatsu straight shank worm hooks and from 1/8 -1/4oz bullet weights. Also the after a few bites or hook sets I'll shorten'em up a 1/4" or so to get into new plastic.

Fishingmickey

The bullet sinkers I get are cupped on the bottom.  I never really thought about it, since I usually run my bullets free, not pegged, and it's not usually in contact with the bait on the fall.

16 minutes ago, J Francho said:

The bullet sinkers I get are cupped on the bottom.  I never really thought about it, since I usually run my bullets free, not pegged, and it's not usually in contact with the bait on the fall.

I've never trimmed this type of worm before fishing myself. I fish unpegged also, and never felt the need to. After a few fish are caught, I might trim back a little to hold my hook in place better, but not before I use them new. Never really even thought about doing this

12 hours ago, papajoe222 said:

All my bullet sinkers are concave at the base. Besides, if a fish refuses my worm because the bullet weight wobbles, I have a much bigger problem to deal with.

 

LMAO! Couldn't agree more. Paralysis by analysis. I try not to think TOO much when I go fishing.

 

@Mobasser, I've  never thought about that, but understand the theory behind it. I'll give it a try.

2 minutes ago, Jigfishn10 said:

 

LMAO! Couldn't agree more. Paralysis by analysis. I try not to think TOO much when I go fishing.

 

@Mobasser, I've  never thought about that, but understand the theory behind it. I'll give it a try.

It's really not my idea. Another guy told me about doing this, and swears by it. I'm still not sure...

4 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

It's really not my idea. Another guy told me about doing this, and swears by it. I'm still not sure...

I'm with ya, I read your opening post. I'm still gonna give it a whirl. You can't invent or improve unless you experiment, can you? I'm all about thinking outside the box.

7 minutes ago, Jigfishn10 said:

I'm with ya, I read your opening post. I'm still gonna give it a whirl. You can't invent or improve unless you experiment, can you? I'm all about thinking outside the box.

Very true. If it works for you, it's all good! As we all know, there's so many opinions on all these things nowdays, it's a wide open field of thought here. Hope it works good for you

Trying to thread a Trick worm on a screw-lock is made a heck of a lot easier if the tip is bitten off .

8 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Trying to thread a Trick worm on a screw-lock is made a heck of a lot easier if the tip is bitten off .

I agree. I don't use screwlock hooks when texas rigging. I always cut the end off when threading onto a shakyhead.