Terry Bolton talks varying retrieves, weights, worm sizes and more to make a Texas-rigged, ribbon-tail plastic worm catch more bass when ledge fishing. His name is synonymous with ledge fishing, and he was winning new boats offshore before ledge fishing was even a term. His go-to bait has always been a ribbon-tail plastic worm like the Zoom Ol’ Monster, and he finally gives up his best tricks for catching bass on a worm out deep when others struggle to generate bites when the fishing gets tough.
He uses a plastic worm a lot to fire up a school of bass while others reach for other baits that have much lower landing percentages. He also talks about why a worm can be more effective longer and why bass are less likely to get conditioned to it over other baits. He goes through how he rigs it, worm choices, rod, reel, line, retrieves and a lot more in this thorough deep dive plastic-worm bass-fishing video.
Currently working as Senior Advisor to Wired2fish. Former COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. He set the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners.
Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure.
He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP.
He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.
