What happens to jig worms?

[ssaamm]

It seems like spring and summer bass discussions always include jig worms and texas-rigged setups. Once fall rolls around the talk moves towards cranks and jig and pig. Are the summer plastics less effective, or is it just easier to fish the cranks once the weeds die down? Anyone use big lizards in the fall? Just curious. I think the crust on our lake is starting to melt. Might run out one more time and chuck the rattle trap. Who knows? Thanks for the input. I hope the Gophers take it to the Hawkeyes today, too!

[cehlert]

I love to use bigger baits in the fall. A bait that worked great this fall was a texas rigged power hawg in green pumpkin and a spinnerbait with a big thumper blade. The last week of October I couldn't buy a bite on a jig or plastic, so I started throwing the big blade bait and slow rolling it back in. The big bass were going nuts on this. The water was very cold and this was still effective.

[Maineiac]

Kind of a month or so late with this but for future reference the jig worm still works in the late fall but some things change. If I was having good luck earlier in the season on a lake with a jig worm of say 6-7 inches I can almost guarantee that I will have to down size to 4-5 inches. If a slow steady retreive worked in summer more likely as not it is going to be a deadstickig sort of approach in the fall. I think the biggest reason people don't throw the jig worm in the late fall isn't because it doesn't work but because other baits start to work so much better.But there are those days. n a club tourney a couple of years ago on Halloween my partner and I cleaned house not because of any particular genius on my part but because I broke off a rig on a rock pile and the first rig I picked up to replace it was still reigged with a jig worm set up. We were in a lee area and warm so were eating our lunch and coffeeing up so I just threw the bait out and let it sit. Next thing I knew my partner was asking where my line was going.....So after reeling in that one we proceeded to do the same thing quite a few times. The week before on the same lake I couldn't buy a tap on the same rig. Go figure its fishing.