
The most effective worm carrier that I’ve ever come across is the JRW bait bag. This way your worms are always at your fingertips and you know exactly where they are at all times. Just throwing the Styrofoam container in your fishing vest will work, but having an effective red worm carrier is a big plus.Īn effective worm carrier keeps your worms within easy reach, while still keeping your hands free for fishing. Having an effective way to carry your red worms is especially important to the river/stream angler. If you think size 10 hooks are too small to catch large fish, consider the fact that I personally hook and land 3-5 pound trout and smallmouth bass on size 10 gang hooks.įishing with red worms obviously also involves carrying your worms with you, and having an effective way to accomplish this task is also important. Size 10 hooks are small enough to be hidden by the worms body yet aren’t detectable to the fish. Truth be told, with red worms size 10 should usually be employed. Gang hooks are a pair of small hooks tied in tandem, and when fishing with red worm’s size 8 or 10 gang hooks should always be used. This way your red worms can be presented outstretched, they way God intended. When fishing with red worms it’s important to use gang hooks to rig them effectively. At the end of the day a red worm look just like a baby night crawler and is much more effective as fishing bait, especially when fishing in rivers and streams.

This type of worm is much smaller than their night crawling cousins, who many times have to be pinched in half to use effectively as fishing bait.

My mentor enlightened me to the fact that these worms can be much better bait than night crawlers for fishing, especially in certain situations. Before being introduced to red worms I always used night crawlers for fishing.

I was introduces to the red worm by my fishing mentor in central Pennsylvania.

One of the best baits for fishing is the red worm and in this article I’m going to provide some tips for fishing with red worms that will make you a much more effective angler.
