squid worms vs. blood and sand worms?

[hellsgatefisher]

Forum,
Does anyone have experience with squid worms? If so how are they in comparison to blood and sand worms used to catch stripers in the East River, NY or NY harbor and Raritan bay areas, NJ? Do you just hook them and fish them like sea worms or is it necessary to work the bait?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Robert

[albacized]

Forum,
Does anyone have experience with squid worms? If so how are they in comparison to blood and sand worms used to catch stripers in the East River, NY or NY harbor and Raritan bay areas, NJ? Do you just hook them and fish them like sea worms or is it necessary to work the bait?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Robert

The only time I've ever seen/heard of squid worms was this past weekend where they were packed dead in a package in the fishing department of a local Walmart. The irony that I would see a question relating to them only days later....

[hellsgatefisher]

The only time I've ever seen/heard of squid worms was this past weekend where they were packed dead in a package in the fishing department of a local Walmart. The irony that I would see a question relating to them only days later....

Albacized,
According to my local bait shop they are new and supposedly quite effective. However, he is a salesman as well as a fisherman so I am interested in finding someone who has fished them and can give an objective opinion.

Robert

[MarkZ]

If I recall correctly this is an "internet journal of saltwater fly fishing", not a how-to for gut hooking fish using worms as bait. I you look you should be able to find one of those quite easily...

[justbill]

If we are going to adopt a hyper-technical reading of "internet journal of saltwater flyfishing," how can we explain the "New England FRESHWATER" section of this website? Should people post snotty replies to every post in that section noting that this is a saltwater website and people should go to other websites if they are interested in slingling flies in freshwater?

I mean no offense here MarkZ, but if bait fishing offends you so much that you cannot stand to read posts about it, it is probably easier to just skip over those posts. The title "squid WORMS vs. blood and sand WORMS" was probably a pretty good clue that it dealt with bait fishing.

[Bob Parsons]

Reading the write up about the product, I would think they would be more durable than regular worms especially for the tube and worm folk. I have tried cutting squid to go on a t & w set up with some success so these should be more effective since you can get them in a variety of scents.

[MarkZ]

No explanation is needed for the NE freshwater section because simply put it IS one of the forums. There is no bait fishing forum here and since there are many more forums dedicated to that topic on the web I think we all would be better served (especially the author) if those topics were brought there. This is not hypersensitivity, just logic. I will occasionally use live bait (not worms for bass due to the aformentioned reason and because it just isn't that fun), so I obviously am not particularly predjudice to the method.

[striper man]

never heard or seen of squid worms. what do they look like?

p.s. what do you think of my new avatar?

[itsmoderating]

I fish the river a lot in fall usually using bucktail tip w/ plastic worm. I seen others boats using worms, bunker chunks & sometime eels. They will all work very well at times either from a boat or off the bulkhead. Expect alot of lost rigs. Its a bumpy bottom
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