Fishing Tricks And Secrets

   (The How-To Fishing Section Of The Webpage!)

          Looking for a little one-on-one fishing instruction?  Let's say you need regular "fishing lessons," lessons that teach you how to catch more fish and how to catch them more consistently, lessons that explain in detail the science of angling.  Well, if that's the case, stay right here.  Ever so often, we'll publish brand new explanations, instruction, tips, techniques, and tactics to this department, all of which are intended to improve your fishing success.  So get ready-- class is in session.   And here's your lesson for this semester!

The Story on the Infamous Shrimp Worms!

    Here lately, just about everyone you talk with raves over a brand new soft-plastic artificial lure called the "shrimp worm."   But I got some disappointing info for you--the lure is not brand new.  It's been around since the Beatles  (and I'm not referring to the split-tailed sparkled kind).
    My old friend and CEO of Bayou Lures, Bill Roberts, first produced and packaged the shrimp worm back in the mid-seventies, when the original concept was put on the market by a man named Phillips.  It originally was intended to be a freshwater bass bait and was conceived as a "ribbed worm."  The idea was the rings or "ribs" would trap air in the interspaces when the fisherman made the cast; then as the lure was twitched in retrieve the motion would dislodge the trapped air bubbles and make the plastic worm an attraction to game fish. 
    Anyway, Phillips eventually gave up on the idea and went out of business.  Shortly thereafter, Roberts resurrected the bait on the behest of sporting goods retailer Tony Puglia, began shooting them in saltwater colors, and named them "shrimp worms."
    Even now, though, there's a confusion among fishermen based on the so-called "Name Game." 
    Recently, some fishermen have been buying a bait called the shrimp worm made by JawTec Company.  Wrong bait, y'all!  The JawTec product was made originally in Texas, intended for use as a bass bait, and is designed on the squid-type principle (a grub body sporting a squid-like set of tentacles trailing off the back end).   
    Then a couple of anglers begin spreading the word that they had bought some shrimp worms made by the Luck-E-Strike Company.  Its  product is definately a worm, but it was a ringworm or ribworm design, made only in freshwater colors, and once again designed for bass.  So what's the identity of the "infamous shrimp worm" that's catching all those speckled trout in Louisiana?
    Simple.  If it doesn't have a green and white Bayou Lures label on the plastic bag, then it's not the real shrimp worm.

    And when you get ready to fish for all those trout with your shrimp worms, here's how you rig them:
    Thread the worms onto a quarter ounce jighead, just as you would a plastic Cocahoe tail or a sparkled beetle.  Then slide the worm up so that it snuggles the jighead and pull it lengthwise a time or two to make sure it runs straight.
    At this point you cast it out, either bounce it gently and slowly off the bottom (much as you would fish a bass worm) or use a slow steady retrieve, stopping periodically.  If you've rigged it right, the fish will usually strike it in the head--you should get very few short strikes. Oh, yeah--the most popular colors are purple with a white tail, smoke with a white tail, chartreuse, glow with a chartreuse tail, and a color commonly called "croaker," which some makers simply refer to as rootbeer.

          Now that we're into the new year, I'll add entirely new copy later this week, so watch for it. Scripts will include such topics as using trolling motors, finding fish, reading water, using GPS to compile a list of hotspots, and isolating the "slicks."  Until then, do a little extra studying on your own.  Let me suggest you try to find trout at broken grass islands, rock jetties wherever you find them, shell and oyster reef flats in landlocked bays, pipeline canals, and deep inner-marsh bayous.  If you're successful, try to find a pattern for your success--in other words ask yourself why the fish are there.   If you can come up with the right answer, you'll catch fish every time you find duplication in the situation and circumstance.

     But wait a minute.  I'm getting ahead if myself.  Do your homework!  See ya later this week with more!

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