Been having this wierd situation as of late and cant figure it out. Hope someone can shed light on this.

    Theres a real small cove in the pond I fish  and the cove is covered by an overhanging tree. Its a very tight spot to fish even when "pitching. For weeks I have been pitching a 4 inch Junebug colored Renegade worm ,t- rigged wieghtless into that cove. On just about 85% of the instances,after I make my first "pitch" and dont get a strike,I retrieve my worm and the twirl tail is bitten clean off!!! I never sense a strike  and am just dumbfounded as to what could be eating just the tails of my plastic worms. Not sure if its Bluegill cause when I pitch it in other spots and can see the bluegill ,they might take it in thier mouth and run ,but I always end up with a complete worm.

Now,I did catch a doozy of a Shellcracker(redear) in that spot and think thats a culprit and have also seen a small painted turtle in the area but have no sure idea of what this thing is thats destroying my plastic worms. Another strange thing is ,I have thrown Zoom worms, and Robo worms in that same spot but they always came out of the water fully intact. Im just kinda puzzled,Anyone care to give ideas as to what this thing might be ?

Renegade baits are not the best quality plastics out there and the tail might be wrapping around cover and ripping off. Thats the only thing I can think of.

I've had this happen and there always seems to be turtles around.

My money is on the turtle, they are bad about that.

I had a similar experience once...  ended up being a turtle.  Want to have some fun (or at least get some revenge) for the loss of worms?

Here is how I figured it out:

Snell a size 8 or 10 fly hook (loop end around primary hook) and insert it in the tail of your worm.  Like an extended trailer hook.  You will either hook the culprit or at least teach him some manners.  

My money is on the turtle.

as far as I'm concerned, hooking a turtle is bad business.  I definitely won't get close enough to unhook the little monster (snapping turtles galore here in KY), and I don't want to lose my stuff by cutting line on a turtle, so I avoid tryin to catch em.  they are a big time annoyance, though

I threw a tiki stick back in early summer to a spot 3 times, and each time I reeled it back in, all but an inch had been bitten/torn/ripped clean off.  I'd vote for bitten though because it was shortened with almost surgical precision.  No rough edges whatsoever, and tikis don't really wrap around any vegetation.

$ on the turtle

Hammer

just get a glop of night crawlers under a bobber thsts how I get rid of the bigger turtles out of my pond so the dont eat yearlings

yall hear that...  soups on!!! lol

Do you have pike or pickerel in the lake? They bite off a lot of plastic lures.

No pike or pickerel in that pond,this phenomena has only happened to me in that one spot in this pond. Theres a big pipe(culvert) that is halfway in the water. Wonder if they(turtles) are hanging out in there ,then going out to greet my bait when it fall

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