Roboworm Ned Worm Soft Plastic Stick Bait Product Review

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A New Specialty Bait from Roboworm : The Ned Worm (continued)

Of course, to keep things interesting, I didn't just use a mushroom shaped jighead but a wide range of traditional shakey heads including those made by manufacturers such as Frenzy Baits, and also a more generic weighted jighead from Gamakatsu, their Alien Head.

The skinny end comes down to a nice slender taper.

Rigging is pretty straight forward with either of these heads although the Gamakatsu Alien Head does allow you to rig your soft plastics Texas style instead of with the hook exposed like with the Frenzy heads.

You can see the injected salt on the bottom of the bait.

Roboworm's Ned Worms are pretty compact and thread through the hook or onto the bait keeper easily and sit on the jighead very securely. I always rigged them with the fat side onto the hook and the skinny side dangling free, but honestly, there's no reason why you can't fish the bait backwards as well.

The salt gives this bait very good buoyancy.

On the fall, the Ned Worm is the epitome of a do nothing bait. It's really just a short, stub of plastic sitting off the bottom, but it does have the buoyancy to stand up off the bottom when at rest even with many of the odd shaped jigheads I was using.

The 3 inch version of this bait is much more stubby.

For most of our tests on a jighead, I leaned towards the larger four and a half inch (4.5") sized bait. When it was time to sample the smaller, three inch (3") bait, I couldn't help but fish that bait on a drop shot rig. Something about the shape and size of this bait at 3 inches makes it feel like an ideal drop shot bait. I'm happy to report, the Ned Worm is just as effective fished in this manner as well.

The head is similar to the 4.5".

Design & Ergonomics: Roboworms never really makes use of fish attractant scents with their baits but instead they typically inject their soft plastics with salt. The Ned Worm benefits from this treatment and I'm sure it's what helps make this bait so buoyant in the water.

You can literally see the salt crystals on the bottom of the bait. These worms are poured from the same, super soft plastic as their Straight Tail and Fat Worm finesse products so if you're looking for one bait to last you through more than a handful of fish, you will be disappointed with the Ned Worm.

But the tail is no where near as slender.

Price & Applications: Roboworm sells the Ned Worm in packs of 6 or 8 (depending on the size) for $3.99 - $4.29. They're available in twenty different colors and as we know with all soft plastics, they're pretty much as versatile as your imagination will allow. Don't let the fact that they are named after a specific technique pigeon hole how you fish them even though that's almost exactly what happened to me during our tests with this bait.

Ratings

Roboworm Ned Worm Ratings (?/10)
Construction/Quality	Roboworm is always consistent	8
Performance	The bait doesn't really do much other than help you catch fish	8
Price	Not as premium as one might expect from a brand that makes such effective products	7.5
Features	It's all about that soft, almost hand pour like plastic with salt	8
Design (Ergonomics)	Those Roboworm colors though	8
Application	Designed to be fished on a jighead but really much more versatile than that	8
Total Score		7.92
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Pluses and Minuses:

Plus	Minus
+ Very soft plastic	- Let's see some full blown 6, 7, and 8 inch models!
+ Salt injected
+ Proven fish catching colors

The Ned Worm looks like another winner from Roboworm.

Conclusion: Having "grown up" fishing the super soft, hand poured finesse plastics from yesteryear, any opportunity to fish a new product by Roboworm is an invitation I accept pretty willingly. While not quite as soft and supple as those old school hand pour plastics, Roboworm's formula is as close as I've seen in a mass produced bait. I was a tiny bit skeptical this formula could translate into an effective stick bait, but those concerns were quickly put to rest after about my fifth fish on seven or eight casts. Of course, like with any finesse technique, not all the fish I caught on this bait were worth counting, but the activity was certainly enough to help me build confidence with the bait and know that the Ned Worm is another product worthy of the Roboworm name.

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