artificial worms

[ml1987]

has anyone had any success using Gulp or any other type of artificial worms on trolling harnesses? we could barely keep a line in the water last weekend without having the worms either break apart or white perch getting them

[ebijack]

Some guys seem to have a lot of luck with gulp, not me and I have wasted a lot of money figuring out gulp does not work for me. A few times running rubber worms I have had success but not many. One friend gets a 3 man limits out of a dozen crawler. He uses long shank single hook harnesses, splits each crawler into 3 pieces, pushes a piece of worm onto and up over the hook/knot, he leaves a bit of the snelled hook mono tail sticking out to help keep the crawler on, then threads on a rubber worm up to the piece of crawler. He has great success doing that. I find that a PIA and running real crawlers I typically get bigger fish so it is a trade off I guess.

[j-mar]

Try Gulp purple/ split tail , buddy used last wed when he ran out of crawlers, they worked for him, he was trolling/ bottom bouncers.

[basser53]

I tried the new Berkley crawler made for worm harness.Had good success,they stay on the hook very well and the fish [all fish] like em'.Just be careful not to get the liquid in the jar on any carpet and wipe up all spills and drips.It may stain.