| For anyone who uses worms as bait, this article is | | | | obviously catch fish, it's simply that they aren't |
| for you. Whether you are new to fishing or | | | | the best or most effective way to rig a worm |
| you've been fishing for many years, worms are | | | | for fishing. |
| one of the best known and most effective baits | | | | The best way to use a worm as bait is by |
| that can be used. Fishermen have been using | | | | making your worm appear as much as possible |
| worms as bait ever since the only fishing rod | | | | like it does in nature. This is accomplished by using |
| available was a long stick. The interesting thing | | | | a set of gang-hooks. Gang hooks are simply a |
| about this is that for most of that time the way | | | | pair of hooks tied in tandem which enable your |
| that anglers use a worm as bait is not the most | | | | worm to be presented as bait in an outstretched |
| effective way that a worm could be used as bait. | | | | and natural manner. Presenting your worm in |
| If you want to know how to use a worm as bait | | | | natural manner is much more effective, especially |
| you need to consider what a worm looks like in | | | | when it comes to larger more experienced fish. |
| normal situations. Have you ever went out on a | | | | Gang hooks are attached to your line using a |
| summer night after it rains and caught night | | | | barrel swivel (to prevent line twist) and can be |
| crawlers? Or seen a worm on the sidewalk after | | | | used with almost any fishing method. These |
| it rains? A live worm is outstretched and moving | | | | hooks are most effective when fished in rivers |
| in normal situations. If a worm accidentally crawled | | | | and/or streams. A live (or synthetic) worm rigged |
| out of a river bed and got pulled downstream by | | | | on a set of gang hooks and allowed to flow |
| the current, what would it look like? Again, | | | | naturally with the current of your favorite river or |
| outstretched and wriggling, while suspended in the | | | | stream is an extremely effective fishing |
| water. | | | | technique. This technique can be used to catch |
| So why as anglers have we always figured that | | | | fish such as smallmouth bass, trout, and even |
| the best way to use a worm as bait was to | | | | walleye at certain times of the year. |
| thread said worm on to a hook? Or to hook the | | | | The bottom line is that the best way to rig a |
| worm over and over again creating what I've | | | | worm for fishing is a set of gang-hooks. As I |
| always called a "worm ball"? The most likely | | | | mentioned earlier, this configuration of hooks can |
| reason is because no one ever showed us a | | | | be used in almost any fishing situation from |
| better alternative than the two that I just | | | | bottom fishing to fishing for Crappie with a slip |
| mentioned. Now don't get me wrong, the two | | | | bobber. Add these effective fishing hooks to your |
| ways to rig a worm mentioned above will | | | | fishing repertoire sooner rather than later. |