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The Don Juan Worm
I started fishing small (3") plastic worms about five years
ago on the North Platte in Wyoming. My fishing partner Wayne Trzyna
was knocking them dead on San Juan Worms, and I didn't have any.
But I did have some small red worms from Wal Mart in my box.
So I put a red plastic worm on a hook--at the end
of an extra-long tippet--that was attached to a big foam
grasshopper 'Bobber Hopper.' I crimped a small split shot
onto the tippet, about a foot up from the worm.
I knocked'em dead too, for about 2-3 hours, until my bag
of worms was all shredded up and gone. The only trouble
I had was keeping the worm from flopping over backward
around a mid-worm mounted hook.
The Solution
Now I do it by preparing the worms in advance--at the
fly tying bench. I skewer the worm with what ever hook
I can find. Then I attach a 2x or 3x shock tippet and
thread it through the center of the front end of the worm
with a sewing needle.
But I don't pull all the mono through. First I wet the
loose loop of mono with super glue, and then quickly
pull it through. Then I put one more extra drop of
super glue at front end of the fly, where the shock tippet
emerges, and squeeze it once or twice.
Now the shock tippet comes out the nose
of the worm and the worm won't slide back down the
shock tippet. If and when the glue does break loose,
I throw the worm back into my fly box
and fix it later on.
Is a plastic worm a fly? Possibly not. You do have to prepare this worm
in advance. And you can fish it with a fly rod.
And soft plastic worms do work like a champ.
The Question
What (if any) significant difference is there,
between one long cylindrical lure made from red chennile
(whose name is the San Juan Worm) and another long cylindrical
lure made from a different red synthetic material?
Tell me (click the comment link at screen top left).
I'm not saying there isn't a difference. I just don't know
what it is--and I'd like to know.
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