Plastic Worm History

[Smead]

Found this link on the FishingForHistory BlogSpot

Interesting to see how a basement inventor had such a huge impact on fishing.

I also have done very well on Crème 4" scoundrels in both black and natural.

http://www.tpwmagazine.com/archive/2015/mar/LLL_creme/

[sqhertz]

Good read. Thanks!

[Bryin]

The ironic part about "rubber" worms (that look nothing like a worm) is that most fish never see, much less are accustomed to eating natural worms. In essence a real worm is an artificial bait.. a good one... but artificial to the fish in that it is something they rarely if ever get to feed on...

Today almost all artificial "worms" look nothing like a natural worm and they can catch a ton of fish... just like natural worms, that to the fish are "artificial".

The "rubber" worm was invented to imitate a bait that was not very natural (to the fish) to begin with....

[Smead]

They most likely resemble leeches, small snakes or salamanders...or simply sound/feel like food while moving.

[slipperybob]

This is kind of coincidental, cuz the first rubber frog I used was made by Crème as well. The hook up ratio was terrible, but boy did the bass and pike hammer that lure.

[Smead]

Some things just work; one of Heddon's very successful color schemes was white body with red head.