I mean to make this video for a while a lot of people have been asking me how I rigged up my worms from bait fishing so I tied up three leaders here these are the three most common ways I'll rig up worm you know least often I'll just gob it up on a hook this can be good for rough fish or really aggressive pan fish most of the time I already got worm this way where I try and keep it straight in a line and bury the shank of the hook in the front end of the worm leave the hook point exposed ideally I like to do this with a live worm especially for shy game fish live worms are almost always better in the current when I'm suspending these baits with a 3-way slip sinker rig like on a current breaker and the main flow of the current this tail will be whipping around a lot of action the triggers fish and when it's just sitting in the still water this tail will be whipping around from the Nightcrawler being alive and just wriggling now in both of those are just great for shy game fish when the worms rigged up this way third way is the same way as the second way but I'll pinch the where I'm right in the middle here and cut it in half and this way can be great for pan fish that are are aggressive or in-between shy and aggressive you know as long as they can pick it up you can set the hook on them right away because the hook points towards the end of the bait and you can lip hook them a lot easier when you fish for pan fish with this one you have to let them run with it usually especially sunfish and they'll swallow the hook a lot more often because it's hard to time when exactly they're done eating it down to the hook point with this it's a lot easier at a time so whenever I can get away with this wood pan fish I'd rather use this and get a better hook in them I also have a trick though for rigging worms you know there's a lot of different types of hooks out there single point hooks for live bait rigging there's octopus hooks Aberdeen hooks there's bait holder hooks or circle hooks and there's other hooks as well most of the time when people want to rig a worm like this in a straight line or like this without having them slide down the shank of the hook they'll use a a bit holder hook has little bait barbs on the shank they're pointing backwards the same direction as the hook point and those barbs will keep it from sliding down you know these worms will slide down either from the current pushing on them or from the momentum during the cast and I don't like them sliding down so I found a way to turn other hooks into a bait holder hook effectively um this trick works almost as well as the bait barbs on a beholder hook basically I I'll take this Aberdeen here because I use Aberdeen's a lot I'll take this worm just start bearing its head into the hook point I'll slide it up a little bit and then I'll take the hook point and I'll pop it out just a tiny bit less is more when you do this it will work better if you pop it out just a tiny bit and then pop it back in then slide it the rest of the way up and pop it out and then I'll work the retina worm up the line a little bit and then you'll notice the eye of the hook will pop in that that little hole that we made when we popped it out you'll feel it click and that click is the skin expanding and then contracting and that hook point popping out of the hole that we made you're not the hook point the hook eye popping out of the hole and when it pops out it basically forms a little bait holder it doesn't really want to go back into the worm see how it's stuck and that will keep that worm from sliding down and this is the way when I'm using Aberdeen's at all I'll rig up a worm I rigged worms this way more than any other way by a long shot because it works great and that lets me use whatever type of hook I want to use