So you're a weekend bank buster like many of us and you only have a couple morning hours to land a few lunkers. Armed with a bag full of goodies you head off to your favorite watering hole...

And now you need to decide what the fish want!

Let me tell you from experience folks, I have easily burned up my precious few morning hours frantically changing from one bait to another looking for the "right one", only to end up heading home empty handed.

When you're out on the lake in a boat, and have 12 or so hours to kill, you can pretty much relax and take the scientific approach to finding out what colors will work for that given set of circumstances. Not a big deal right? Plus you probably can have 3 or 4 rods rigged up to test different set-ups quickly.

Well here is a quick tip for those times when you are stuck banging the banks for a couple hours.

I am a rubber worm fisherman. They work all the time any time. Period. Sure, I fish all the other neat fast noisy stuff too, but mostly when I have much more time. When time is critical or short, go to a worm. You will catch fish.

Now, having just eliminated 90% of the variables associated with your bait, the only thing left is to pick the right color for your worm. Now you could again, waste an hour changing from color to color till you catch something, or you can try this exclusive real bass power-TIP...

Make up a rig with 5 pr 6 leaders about 8 or 10 inches long. From each leader, tie on one each of a different color worm in your selection. I typically use 4 or 5 of my best producers.

Now when you get to the bank, see all those blue-gills and shad hanging out? Toss your rig in. The bluegills will go for the color of choice and ignore the others.

This is the color you should now use for the morning. Bluegills are in the bass family, so they all like the same thing.

This has worked for me time and time again, and saves me from wasting the day trying all sorts of colors and baits.

Try it, and I'll see you out on the water.

Don