Mop chenille worms

[Shoemoo]

Made these awhile back and remembered them when I was going through the pics on my phone recently. They absolutely slaughtered the crappie dragging them along the banks in the fall. Bet they will do great in the early spring too. Super easy and fast to make since there's only one material and thread. They are made of Hareline UV galaxy mop chenille with the end singed to a point with a lighter. It has mylar woven in for flash, comes in a million different colors and you get a lot in the pack. These are mottled brown to resemble an earthworm but I also had a lot of success with mottled olive and solid white and black. You can control the amount of taper and get fancy and put a collar on them or mix and match the body and tail color by using a different chenille if you want.

[SuperDave336]

Looks good and I like the jig head you put them on

[Shoemoo]

Thanks. I found that if you bounce them a bit during the retrieve the tail flops around and really looks alive. The chenille soaks up a lot of water which makes them easier to cast in small sizes without impacting the drop rate. I got these heads in a swap box many, many years ago. I believe they are from a custom mold from someone who has since passed away. I'm going to be sad when they're gone.

Everything wanted to eat these things. Everything.

[MCG1]

I just started making some. The white ones look like waxworms. I'm going to try them thru the ice with slabsauce on them.

[DockShootinJack]

That cat certainly liked it

[Chuck Adams]

Kinda looks like a wooly worm we have here in Indiana.
Cool


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[Shoemoo]

I just started making some. The white ones look like waxworms. I'm going to try them thru the ice with slabsauce on them.

I was going for the pinched crawler look with these but I've found if you hold the chenille vertical so just the end faces the flame you can get a nice rounded end that looks like the butt end of a grub or maggot. But be sure and glue everything down well. It likes to pull out from under the thread after it's been eaten a few times if it's not really secure.

[Shoemoo]

That cat certainly liked it

I liked him too. He tasted great in sandwiches. Was a fun fight on an ultralight rod. I had several break off right at the dock on the first night because the water was too far down to reach them without going in myself. After that I brought a big net with a long handle. Also caught tons of yellow perch and bluegills on them.

[Fatman]

Shoe

Redman designed that jighead years ago and I haven't heard from him for a long time. Redear learned the process from him with how to press heads to make molds in aluminum blocks and was good at it. He sent me a single cavity mold of that head and it's one of my favorites. Years ago when I did rounds of material swaps I put a bunch of them in the swap box.

If you don't want to burn the chenille you could also do twisted chenille and make the same style

[SuperDave336]

Shoe

Redman designed that jighead years ago and I haven't heard from him for a long time. Redear learned the process from him with how to press heads to make molds in aluminum blocks and was good at it. He sent me a single cavity mold of that head and it's one of my favorites. Years ago when I did rounds of material swaps I put a bunch of them in the swap box.

If you don't want to burn the chenille you could also do twisted chenille and make the same style

Now those are very cool and something I haven’t seen before. Did you twist the chenille with hackle to give it that look?