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Advice on choosing 3-5 5" Wacky worm colors

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12 hours ago, Peacedivision said:

Watermelon slice laminate. Works great and they're always under $5 a pack on Amazon.

Please clarify exactly which WSL you are recommending as there are quite a few.

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You’re going to have to find what works for you in your waters. the base colors you’re getting are good in a lot of places. I some cases, you might find a standout color. My dad’s lake, the bass just work with a black grape in dirty water and pumpkinseed in clear. Yesterday I was doing nothing on green pumpkin variants but red shad got bit on the third bite in the same place (and caught a couple more later). Sometimes color doesn’t matter. Until it does.

And the marker pens are a great option for a bank angler. A chartreuse or pink tip can be the thing they want. The most specific time I was throwing a cutoff from a GP senko on a Ned rig. I had painted the tail chartreuse with a market and they loved it. Being a senko, it lasted 5 or 6 fish before it was done. I put on another (sans tail) and couldn’t get bit. Tried a craw, other plastic, etc. Didn’t matter. Put on a 3” zman Ned and painted the tail chartreuse and they ate it. Clipped the tail off a senko and painted it chartreuse (while I fished the elaztech Ned), rigged it up later, and got bit. The tail mattered. Same cast for every fish (25 that night). Long story short, try different colors if you think you’re in the place the fish are but they aren’t biting. And if they are biting but not great, try other colors.

My vast inventory contains two colors.

Watermelon/Cream

Black

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You have it covered pretty well. I would add something pearl/white with silver or gold or purple flake (or all three) if there are shad any where near you. My favorite do-everything color is KVD Magic n Strike King Ochos.

Black or junebug with blue tail

Green pumpkin magic

Add Junebug and you're good to go. My top 3 in no particular order are: Watermelon Red/ Black Flake, Green Pumpkin Black Flake and Junebug.

I am not convinced this matters; which is to say you can hand a pro any one of 100s of colors of senkos and I bet they would catch fish. I always have black senkos (and get blue flakes, but again, any flake may work); I like green too. On sunny days, I will sometimes switch to watermelon. Not sure there a compelling need for more colors than that or what you have now.

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You have good basic stick worm colors - In the Yum Dinger line (of compatible) I would look to add : Bama Bug , Elders Magic , Water Melon Pearl and Bold Bluegill . You lack contrasting colors and when a stick worm rocks back and forth the flashing of contrasting colors helps attract bass versus seeing the same symmetrical pattern of a solid color with one of two metal flake colors . Although not requested - using a weighted wacky jig and expanding the wacky rig to livelier , longer worms in the summer can be a game changer. An example of this would be a BPS Magnum Fin-Eke (6”) or compatible worm such as a Zoom Magnum Trick Worm with a VMC Cross Over Ring and a 1/8th oz. VMC Wacky Jig Head. Also in the summer don’t forget the wacky drop shot using a 1/4 oz - 3/8 oz weight to reach bottom hugging bass in deep water quicker. Folks like Glenn and featured pros have forgotten more than I know on the subject - there are some fascinating article reads in this forum regarding wacky rigs , color options and techniques.

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I will add that is you have Shad in your waters an Electric Shad , Pearl , Crazy Chrome or Blue Glimmer can be in play.

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