With the recent nice weather we’ve had, naturally my mind has turned to fishing. I like to start getting my tackle ready early so that if I have a problem with a rod or reel, I have time to send it away and get it back before the season.
If you think I am starting too early, remember that with COVID-19, there is no such thing as too early. A few of the manufacturers I deal with are just now catching up to normal operating speed. Some are still not there.
A simple reel repair may take weeks. Something complicated may not get done by the time you want to hit the lakes. Don’t take chances, get it done now and beat the rush.
It isn’t too early to restock your lure supplies either. When I went to order a few lures the other day, even I was shocked. Simple rubber goods were all back ordered. If you fish a lot of rubber, you better start now. While some lures were available now, the more popular colors were all back ordered. The shad colors and the green pumpkin and all the more popular colors are gone.
The first lures I went to order were drop shot lures. You would think that they shouldn’t present a problem, but everything I looked at was on back order.
Certain Berkley and Z Man lures will not be available until April. Every manufacturer was low or back ordered. If you wait too long, you may not get the more popular lures until May or even June.
Just getting through the rubber worms was mindboggling. I look back when I first started fishing and I laugh.
Mann’s Bait Company was one of the first to come out with the plastic worm. No, that isn’t a typo, the first artificial worms were plastic, not rubber. They worked fine and caught a lot of fish, but if you could catch more than one fish per worm, you were lucky.
And, of course, it didn’t take a whole catalogue to list all the colors. Mainly, you had black and purple. It started a craze that will last as long as there are fishermen.
If I remember correctly, they only came with a straight tail at first. Then a hook tail followed. Now when you are ordering worms, it takes forever to choose between all the colors and tail styles. Then you have to add the floating worm.
To be honest, though, I wouldn’t want to be caught without any of them. They all have their time and place to catch fish. Then when you add all the different sizes, you have to have a truck to carry all of them.
My suggestion to anyone just getting into worm fishing is to buy a package of every tail style in black and purple and the four- and six-inch sizes to start. You can branch out from there according to your style of fishing and the lakes you frequent.
Once you get started, you can decide what tails you want according to your style of fishing and you can expand on colors and sizes as you go along. Be careful though, it can become addictive.
I thought I was bad because I had bags and bags of worms, until I saw Frank Rempe’s supply. He has packing boxes of every tail style and color in each size up to 12 inches.
While you don’t need every worm on the market, don’t kid yourself. Every style tail has a purpose. Once you get started, you will see what you need according to the way you fish.
And once you get good at it, then you can go crazy and buy every style, size and color.
DAVE LEWONCZYK is a freelance outdoors correspondent for Times-Shamrock Newspapers. Contact him at lewonoutdoors@verizon.net
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