I haven’t fished any in years and years. I found a pack organizing tackle after moving. And I’m considering getting a couple packs in some light and dark colors. What kind are you using? What rigging methods you using? I’m excited to beat the. And with them like I did when I first started bass fishing 

Zoom Trick Worms are my first choice for Shakey head, jig-worm, and weightless T-Rig.

Zoom trick worms. All colors work at some time IME. I rig them weightless, TX rig, Ned heads, shakey head, nose hooked, as a trailer, and just about any other way you could think of. One of my favorite lures.

Weightless and weedless, wacky, light jig head, light Texas rigged, drop shot, Bubba shot, as a trailer, pretty much endless. Junebug, watermelon, and black. Trickworms, senkos, and Ned TRD's are my confidence plastics along with beavers and baby brush hogs. 

Here's how I use it:

 

 

The Trick Worm has a long history of catching fish. However, at times I have found them inconsistent as far as floating. A better alternative and more consistent float rate IMO is the Netbait T-Mac worm. Looks like it, floats better and also well priced. 

I’m not gonna lie. A Zoom Trick is one of my all-time favorite worms. Mostly as a weightless TR. A 4/0 Gamakatsu EWG and it’s almost guaranteed to catch a bass. 
 

Why I don’t know. Looking at it, it’s nothing special. But it must be, as it’s relatively consistent and it also tends to last a while. 

Probably my favorite soft plastic straight tail worm ever?

 

I mean it just straight gets bit and catches monsters.

 

I fished it a LOT weightless wacky and Neko weighted (I just use cheap finishing nails you can buy 1,000 at a time at hardware stores and shove them in the worm tail when I want it to fall a little faster and more vertical and let it weightless when I want to work it more like a topwater.

5 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

Probably my favorite soft plastic straight tail worm ever?

 

I mean it just straight gets bit and catches monsters.

 

I fished it a LOT weightless wacky and Neko weighted (I just use cheap finishing nails you can buy 1,000 at a time at hardware stores and shove them in the worm tail when I want it to fall a little faster and more vertical and let it weightless when I want to work it more like a topwater.

That’s too funny. I was literally in my garage tonite looking at nails and screws thinking to myself. I’m not buying any weights I’ll use these lol. 

Four bass caught on a Zoom Magnum Trick Worm Junebug. T Rigged 1/4 oz lead bullet sinker.

 

I use the T-worm for floating worm rigs and for a super finessey wacky rig. The trick worm was literally the first soft plastic  I ever fished. Fished it on a split shot worm set-up. Man I miss catching fish like that. It was so much fun back when I was a kid.

Excellent. I'll be revisiting for a while with the 40 lbs of Trickworms I own.

I use them occasionally. I've used the Zoom Finesse worm quite a bit more. I've mostly used it on a split shot rig, but I've fished both the Finesse and Trick worms texas rigged weightless with success.

 

I haven't tried them wacky rigged yet, but I haven't had much luck wacky rigged with senkos/copies yet either.

Well, I'm almost positive I'm going to be fishing a neko rig a bunch this year.

1 minute ago, HawkeyeSmallie said:

Well, I'm almost positive I'm going to be fishing a neko rig a bunch this year.

Why’s that

26 minutes ago, Joedodge said:

Why’s that

 

It's a technique I've never done before, like ever.

 

After watching and reading a lot about it, I figured it would be a great addition to my fishing.

 

Just a month ago or so I put together a great rod/reel combo for it.

 

Last week I tried it for the first time and caught a very nice bass (for me) on it. I was sold.

 

I'm really excited to try it on a somewhat local lake that is highly pressured with pretty clear water. It's a tough lake to fish but I think this will be perfect for it. There's big bass in it if you can catch them.

1 minute ago, HawkeyeSmallie said:

 

It's a technique I've never done before, like ever.

 

After watching and reading a lot about it, I figured it would be a great addition to my fishing.

 

Just a month ago or so I put together a great rod/reel combo for it.

 

Last week I tried it for the first time and caught a very nice bass (for me) on it. I was sold.

 

I'm really excited to try it on a somewhat local lake that is highly pressured with pretty clear water. It's a tough lake to fish but I think this will be perfect for it. There's big bass in it if you can catch them.

I wana try it S well that’s why I asked. And I’m also in Iowa.

 

ive fished the trick worm Texas rigged weightless long ago. But never tried it wacky or neko. I’ll have to dig a spinning combo out and give her a try!!!

I like them on a neko rig, but they aren't true floater worms.

 

My favorite trickworm color is watermelon candy around grass fish that would normally feed on bluegills.  

 

This time of year before the grass/moss gets too bad and the bass are in post spawn, fry guarders typically bury themselves on the inner weedline between the grass and the bank and casting to the bank and bringing the bait out can result in a lot of fish.  

 

I like the neko rig for this because the bait sinks faster and the point of the hook doesn't get too fouled up from the moss/grass.  Since its a lighter and relatively longer bait, it doesn't sink into a softer bottom too bad.

 

Once post spawn stuff is done, I usually don't use it the rest of the year except for maybe a carolina rig offshore, but even then I prefer other baits.

29 minutes ago, Joedodge said:

I wana try it S well that’s why I asked. And I’m also in Iowa.

 

ive fished the trick worm Texas rigged weightless long ago. But never tried it wacky or neko. I’ll have to dig a spinning combo out and give her a try!!!

 

Yeah I'd definitely give it a try.

 

Seems pretty effective, hard to fish it wrong, and it's not a big investment if you don't like it. Bag of plastics, some hooks, and some weights.

 

Heck I used a bag of plastics that was thrown out at a parade (a local kid made them) and some nails I cut with a Dremel tool. Only thing I had to buy were the VMC weedless neko hooks and some o rings.

 

After my first experience, I went straight to Omnia and bought worms, hooks, and weights.   

 

To me, it seems like the neko is the perfect mix of a ned rig and wacky worm, and I've never been skunked on either of those.

 

Time will tell.

I know when the Smallies are being stubborn ,A wacky rigged trick worm gets it done. Always got one close by 

I caught my PB on a Candy Bug Trick Worm last summer (1/4 Texas Rig).

Weightless, Texas rigged, wacky rigged, or honestly any other way you can dream up. I like watermelon red flake and June bug. definitely one of my favorite baits when the bass are being picky. 

Most of my luck has come on a Zoom trick worm rigged either on a weightless T-rig or on a split shot rig. Weightless T-rig fooled this one. 

Trick worms, and just straight tail worms in general like the Mag Finesse and Mag Trick Worm style baits, are one of the best fish catching designs available. They're not exciting to look at, but you can rig them so many different ways and they'll produce no matter how you want to fish them. 

 

The standard Zoom versions are great, but YUM and Big Bite Baits both offer good versions that I also use. 

Why do people treat it like the Senko?  As in they only fish the Zoom brand instead of the myriad of other takes on the same bait shape?  With the Senko it has a softness and fall that is unique to the bait and give it its legendary reputation.  With the Trick Worm, isn't every other take on bait at least equal if not better?  Zoom's plastisol isn't exactly the softest or most elastic.  Every finesse worm I've had looked and moved better in the water. 

 

It it a case of if it's not broken, don't fix it?  It just works so you keep using it?  I'm guilty of that with a lot of my baits and will keep using the thing that works for me that I have confidence in even if an alternative is objectively better.  I started out with other finesse worms so the Zoom Trick Worm hasn't stood out to me as a new to me bait.  From my perspective it's really bizarre to see this Senko like cult following.