It is time to order red spikes online- you can get 500 and they will last you for the season- if you live near a local bait shop encourage them to get these so you can help support a local business.
Red spikes offer benefits over traditional wax worms when in high or low pressure systems as they offer up a lively low profile option for bluegill and crappie and even Saugeye and Bass feeling the mid winter blues. Some anglers in Northern states have more varieties than simply white or red spikes and choose blue or chartreuse- but for Team USA / veterans came to tryouts with red spikes and lots of them as they mimic blood worms a luxury food source for pan fish that overseas is what we fish with on the tiniest of setups.
My shipment arrives on Thursday- they ideally need to stay around 40 degrees to keep them from freezing completely and turning black or coming out of dormancy and turning into black flies (has happened to me).
