How do I fish a GULP turtleback worm?

[DougieK]

Finally picked up a packet of these after reading nothing but good things (vague but good). I have a stupid amount of time and pretty much unlimited effort I can put in after the next three weeks, wondering how you go about fishing them.

Had a poke around the rock ledges at Point Leo the other night, seems like a good palce to flick plastics around.

[shazdoggg]

I use slow lift and hops on the bottom. I fish them pretty slow cos most of the strikes will be on the pause after the hop . Not my favourite sp but possible #1 on the menu for puffers/toads. They can't get enough of them!!! Can get expensive when your tails keep going missing(on each cast )

You can also rig a stinger hook if you feel your getting short strikes. The stinger hook is tied to the eye of the jig head. I find that the better quality fish usually go for the head of the worm and its the small runts which keep pinching the tail.

[JoshW]

A simple lift and drop will do it. They are an awesome plastic, I've just gone off em because they are 1 plastic per fish .

[CarlG]

What Shazz said. I stopped using them around piers as leatherjackets and wrasse just destroy them..

[DougieK]

What Shazz said. I stopped using them around piers as leatherjackets and wrasse just destroy them..

That's what you get for fishing off a pier.

[sloth]

Depends where the fish are

You can deadstick them on the bottom. You can do a hop-pause-hop with them on the bottom or just slow roll them along.

If you want to work them higher in the water column then start your retrieve before it hits bottom and a slow roll with twitches.

Can run them texposed or they also work pretty well texas or Carolina rigged if you're targetting bottom dwellers.

If you're targeting suspended fish then you can also rig it on a worm hook and just add a small splitshot 6 - 12 inches in front of it and it will slowly drop down through the water column and hopefully get hit on the drop.

[Nude up]

I used to use the camo ones in the derwent chasing bream I used to cut them down in length if I was getting hits but no takes, I tend to mix up the retrieves two sharp lifts then wind in the slack wait go again if getting no takes try one lift or just a dead slow retrieve see which one is working on the day.

[ducky]

1/8th 2/0 and hopping off the bottom kills flatties and pinkies.

[DougieK]

1/8th 2/0 and hopping off the bottom kills flatties and pinkies.

That's good news. Bought exactly that jig head today as well.

[Basti]

or a 1/24 #1 thrown at a marina breakwater, watching the line twitch like mad on the drop, strike after finally realising and coming up solid on a sambo. apparently the school was chilling out and i got lucky lol. :bite:

i cut them down if im getting short bites

also hooked a nice trev on the gulp minnow curltail thing. dropped him at the net. Spewing!