What are your favorite wacky worms?

Senkos and Dingers

Bass Assassin's Tapout Worm 7 1/2"

Zoom's Magnum Trick Worm 

I like the original yamamoto ones too but they lack durability, as everyone knows. I still use them in certain situations because I like the natural unweighted fall rate they have.

 

My other choices are yum dingers, BPS stick-o, and some Crème versions that I found in the bargain bin at walmartians.

Reaction Innovations Pocket Rocket. 
 

 

It’s deadly when I Trig it too. 

Bass pro stick worms , Yum dinger and Sttike King shim e stick 

Senko 

Deep creek lures 5" sink n catch. 

Senko

Tiki Stick

Gambler Ace (6 inch)

Zinker- fall a bit too fast though.

All weightless, shallow water here, south Florida

Gary’s creation, BPS brand and ElazTec

Bizz Baits sassy sticks believe it or not nothing shimmies like a sassy stick.

Senko. Easily. 

Gambler Sweebo worm in June bug has worked good for me. 

Flick Shake

3 hours ago, IYAOYAS said:

Bizz Baits shimmy sticks believe it or not nothing shimmies like a shimmy stick.

I see a sassy stick.  Is this the one?

Senkos. All the colors seem to work.

Gambler ace. Bps stik-o

 

Ocho 

6th Sense Clout

59 minutes ago, RRocket said:

Flick Shake

I use these too. In the large size. But not nearly as much as a senko/stik-o 

Flickshake GPM

Creme Whacky Stick

Yum Dingers

Good Fishing

1 hour ago, jbrew73 said:

I see a sassy stick.  Is this the one?

Yeah that's the one.  My mind is like a wet paper bag the older I get. lol

For weightless whacky rigging, exclusively Yamasenkos.   It's the king of weightless stick worm action, nobody has ever replicated its subtle shimmy action....some good YT videos comparing them all underwater.   For weighted applications including weighted whacky rigs, it doesn't matter what brand you go with in my book.  The weight is going to kill the stick worm action for the most part.  Maybe on a Free Rig, I'd go with the Yamasenko, again because of its natural shimmy action. 

 

That said, the biggest piece of advice I wish somebody gave me when I first bought a pack of stick worms to whacky rig was to buy the cheapest brand you can find to start off with, Yum, Academy brand name, or the BPS ones are good to start out with.

 

The reason for this is because confidence in baits is everything, the single most important aspect imho.   If you start out with GYB Yamasenkos at $7-8 a pack like I did and have fantastic success, there's no going back to Yum Dingers at $3-4 a pack.   I've tried, and in the back of your mind you always feel you'd be getting more bites, catching bigger fish with the more expensive ones.

 

The last week alone I've gone through $35-40 in senkos/VMC crossover rings.  I'd be broke if I used them outside the months of March and April lol.  

1 hour ago, F14A-B said:

I use these too. In the large size. But not nearly as much as a senko/stik-o 

FWIW, they're releasing an even denser version this spring.

 

https://www.jackall.co.jp/bass/products/lure/soft-bait/flickshake500/?wovn=en

I have been fishing for over 40 years, I never fish a wacky never have. I will fish weightless Texas but I am more of a topwater/ moving bait guy.