The Scoundrel

The ORIGINAL plastic worm invented by Nick Creme in 1949. Notice any similarities to a Trick Worm?

 

@Pat Brown

That's exactly how I've been fishing them since the 70s. For a nail weight I use paneling nails, they got nice little ridges to help hold them in place.

 

 

So I went out this morning. Neko rig snagged a few in no time at all. Fished a black zoom truck worm on. A 1/0 octopus hook. With a nail shoved in the head of the worm. I found the nail in the garage. Definitely gonna keep a spinning rod in the truck rigged up from now on. Love a black trick worm takes me back to when I literally started bass fishing 

7 hours ago, Bigbox99 said:

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.

I sometimes like to use the elaztech versions on 1/4oz Texas rigs. It lets the tail float up like a shaky head but is completely weedless, unlike the shaky head. 

5 hours ago, Joedodge said:

So I went out this morning. Neko rig snagged a few in no time at all. Fished a black zoom truck worm on. A 1/0 octopus hook. With a nail shoved in the head of the worm. I found the nail in the garage. Definitely gonna keep a spinning rod in the truck rigged up from now on. Love a black trick worm takes me back to when I literally started bass fishing 

You fished that on a casting setup?

4 minutes ago, woolleyfooley said:

I sometimes like to use the elaztech versions on 1/4oz Texas rigs. It lets the tail float up like a shaky head but is completely weedless, unlike the shaky head. 

You fished that on a casting setup?

No I used  spinning combo. I have a casting combo for light lures but I think it would still struggle this light. 
that was my swim jig rod the fish was laid up against 

2 hours ago, Joedodge said:

No I used  spinning combo. I have a casting combo for light lures but I think it would still struggle this light. 
that was my swim jig rod the fish was laid up against 

Ah ok! That makes more sense!

I’ve always liked trick worms, smoke purple was a smallie catcher for sure. Never thought of using them for a Neko rig.

I will now, I think might try putting a worm rattle on the weighted side of it too.

With the everything going up in price the Zoom trick worm seems to be a good bang for the buck.

On 5/29/2025 at 1:36 PM, dwtaylor said:

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

I agree, if you want to try a couple worms that look like the trick worm but float much better for things like Neko or Shaky try either the NetBait T-Mac worm or the GrandeBass Airtail Wiggler.  I haven’t gone back to the Trick worm in years since switching over… 

37 minutes ago, FryDog62 said:

I agree, if you want to try a couple worms that look like the trick worm but float much better for things like Neko or Shaky try either the NetBait T-Mac worm or the GrandeBass Airtail Wiggler.  I haven’t gone back to the Trick worm in years since switching over… 

I was actually looking at the net bait. The tail float up that much better than a trick worm when neko rigged?

27 minutes ago, Joedodge said:

I was actually looking at the net bait. The tail float up that much better than a trick worm when neko rigged?

The entire body of the T-Mac is more consistent than a Trick Worm - subtle difference but if you fish it often enough I think you can tell. The Airtail Wiggler’s air bubble tail floats one end straight up the best of the three IMO. 

25 minutes ago, FryDog62 said:

The entire body of the T-Mac is more consistent than a Trick Worm - subtle difference but if you fish it often enough I think you can tell. The Airtail Wiggler’s air bubble tail floats one end straight up the best of the three IMO. 

I’ll look into those!!! Heck I just found out a trick worms come unsalted lol

@Bigbox99 I fish a lot of different soft plastics. A lot, as fishing with a Texas rig (weighted or weightless) is my favorite way to fish. Sometimes they want this, sometimes that. All I can say is that in terms of consistency, a Zoom Trick on a 4/0 EWG will almost always catch bass for me. To me, it’s an ultra-high confidence bait. So yeah, I’m going to keep buying them and fishing with them until such time as I’m convinced they don’t want it anymore. 
 

Which doesn’t appear likely. 

10 hours ago, ike8120 said:

With the everything going up in price the Zoom trick worm seems to be a good bang for the buck.

What’s gone up in price?

Zoom or nothing

 

Interesting story I'll keep short: I was fishing Walter E Long lake down here in Texas back in September of last year. I was struggling big time.. couldn't get them to hit jack. The bite was just really slow. Decided to try something out of the ordinary, so I changed my Texas rig plastic to a bubblegum (pink) Zoom trick worm. Not even three casts later, put a 6.5 in the boat. Then I finally started catching a few here and there. 

 

Never thought those bright pink worms would be something I'd rely on... lol 

Used to fish trick/finesse and the shakey/mag shakey head worm all the time.  You can catch fish all year on those 4 baits.