bass on a soft bait

[Bill-B'klyn]

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I've been experimenting with soft baits. I used a small "creme" worm to catch this bass.

Bill

[FishnDave]

Nice! Good job on breaking the mold and experimenting!

[Chuck S]

Good job Bill! I've done similar and now with Crazy Glue and hoks with bent shanks you can get that combo to work for a good while as long as you take care with the casts. Years back my favorite bait for big bass was the old Uncle Josh's Pork Eel and to simulate that for the fly rod, I use a Black maribou Wooley Worm tiped with a five inch or longer strip of Chamois colored black with a magic marker. In fact I carry a pack of these Chamois eels in various lengths in my Bass flies along with a couple of markers and can mix and match with flies such as a Clouser, or Wooley!

[Uncle Jesse]

Chuck, I haven't bought a pork rind, other than the crunchy kind, in many years, but I seem to remember they had some little skin eel strips you could just hang on a hook. Have you tried that, of course you don't have to lug around a jar when using chamois.

[icall2much]

Nice job!!!!

[Bluegill222]

Bill--
See if you can find a copy of Jack Ellis's book, Bassin' with a Fly Rod. Lot's of good info on techniques that utilize conventional baits, especially soft plastics.