Baitlicious Dash Worm – 5.75″ Speed Worm for Bass Fishing
The Baitlicious Dash Worm is a 5.75-inch soft plastic speed worm featuring a long, ribbed body and distinctive hooked speed tail. Designed for swimming presentations around grass, lily pads, shallow flats, and submerged vegetation, the Dash Worm provides anglers with an active alternative to traditional straight-tail bass worms.
Its curved tail creates swimming action during a steady retrieve, making the Dash Worm a useful option for covering water and targeting largemouth bass around vegetation.
Hand-poured in small batches using American-made plastisol, the Dash Worm is part of the Baitlicious swimming worm lineup and is also available in a larger 7-inch Magnum version.
What Makes the Baitlicious Dash Worm Different?
Hooked Speed Tail for Swimming Action
The Dash Worm features a broad, hooked speed tail designed to move as the worm travels through the water.
Unlike a straight-tail trick worm, the Dash produces tail movement during a swimming retrieve, allowing anglers to cover water while maintaining a soft plastic worm presentation.
Ribbed 5.75-Inch Body
The Dash Worm’s long, ribbed body provides a textured profile with enough length for a variety of Texas-rigged presentations.
Its 5.75-inch size offers a smaller alternative to the 7-inch Magnum Dash Worm while retaining the same general body design and similar swimming action.
Versatile Grass-Fishing Presentation
The Dash Worm can be fished weightless or with a light bullet sinker, depending on water depth, vegetation, and the desired retrieve.
Rigging the worm Texas-style with the hook point protected helps reduce snagging when working around grass and shallow cover.
Small-Batch Baitlicious Production
The Dash Worm is produced in small batches using Baitlicious soft plastic materials and packaged with salt.
Available color patterns give anglers options for different water clarity and forage conditions.
How to Fish the Baitlicious Dash Worm
Surface Swimming – Shallow Grass and Lily Pads
One popular way to fish a speed worm is to retrieve it near the surface.
Rig the Dash Worm Texas-style on an appropriately sized hook. A weightless rig or light bullet sinker can be used depending on the presentation.
Cast beyond the target area and begin retrieving to activate the hooked speed tail.
Adjust your retrieve speed to keep the worm near the surface while maintaining tail movement.
This technique is worth trying around topped-out hydrilla, lily pad edges, and shallow vegetation.
Slow-Rolling Along Grass Edges
The Dash Worm can also be retrieved beneath the surface.
Cast parallel to submerged grass lines and use a steady retrieve to swim the bait alongside the vegetation.
Experiment with retrieve speed and sinker weight to control the running depth.
Pay attention to openings, points, and irregularities in the grass line where bass may be positioned.
Light Texas Rig – Submerged Vegetation
When additional depth or casting weight is needed, rig the Dash Worm with a light bullet sinker.
Weights around 1/16 to 1/4 ounce provide a starting range, depending on conditions.
Retrieve the worm steadily through open lanes in vegetation or along submerged grass edges.
Allow the bait to settle periodically before resuming the retrieve.
Lift-and-Drop Presentations
The Dash Worm can also be worked with a combination of swimming and falling movements.
Allow the worm to sink toward the desired depth, raise the rod tip to move it forward, and then let it fall again.
This presentation can be useful around openings in submerged vegetation and transitions between shallow and deeper water.
Carolina Rig – Deeper Grass Lines
For deeper structure and grass edges, the Dash Worm can be presented behind a Carolina rig.
Drag the weight along the bottom while the worm follows behind on a leader.
Use a slow retrieve with occasional pauses to work the bait across points, shell beds, and vegetation transitions.
Where to Fish the Dash Worm
The Dash Worm is particularly suited to freshwater bass fishing around grass and shallow-water structure.
- Hydrilla: Swim the worm along submerged grass edges and through open lanes.
- Kissimmee grass: Target points, pockets, and vegetation transitions.
- Lily pads: Retrieve along pad edges and through accessible openings.
- Shallow flats: Cover water around scattered vegetation.
- Eelgrass: Work the worm along submerged vegetation lines.
- Deeper grass edges: Use a weighted presentation to reach fish holding below shallow cover.
Florida lakes such as Lake Istokpoga, Lake Kissimmee, and Lake Okeechobee offer examples of grass-oriented bass fishing environments where speed worms are commonly used.
Dash Worm vs. Magnum Dash Worm
Baitlicious offers the Dash Worm in two sizes with the same general design and similar swimming action.
Baitlicious Dash Worm – 5.75″
The standard Dash Worm provides a compact swimming-worm profile with a ribbed body and hooked speed tail.
Choose this size when you want a smaller presentation or are matching smaller forage.
Baitlicious Magnum Dash Worm – 7″
The Magnum Dash Worm maintains the same general body shape and swimming action in a larger profile.
Choose the Magnum when you want additional length and a more substantial soft plastic presentation without changing the fundamental Dash Worm design.
Choosing Dash Worm Colors
Color selection depends on water clarity, available forage, and lighting conditions.
Junebug: A popular option for stained or tannic water.
Green Pumpkin: A natural-looking choice for vegetation and clearer water.
Black/Blue Flake: Worth considering when a darker silhouette is desired.
Watermelon Red: A versatile color option for fishing around vegetation.
Red Shad: Another option for anglers who prefer darker worm patterns with contrasting color.
Select from the available Baitlicious Dash Worm color variations.
Baitlicious 5.75″ Dash Worm Features
- 5.75-inch soft plastic speed worm
- Broad, hooked speed tail
- Long, ribbed body
- Swimming action during steady retrieves
- Suitable for weightless Texas rigging
- Compatible with light weighted Texas rigs
- Can be used on Carolina rigs
- Useful for surface and subsurface swimming presentations
- Hand-poured in small batches
- Manufactured using American-made plastisol
- Larger 7-inch Magnum Dash Worm also available
Put the Dash Worm to Work
Whether you’re swimming shallow grass, working submerged vegetation, or fishing deeper grass edges, the Baitlicious 5.75″ Dash Worm offers a versatile speed-worm presentation for largemouth bass.
Choose your preferred color, match the rigging to the conditions, and let the Dash Worm’s hooked tail provide the swimming action.
Baitlicious Dash Worm – Ribbed Body. Hooked Speed Tail. Built for Grass Fishing.
John M., Kissimmee Chain — Verified Buyer –
Perfect buzz worm for Kissimmee grass
I’ve been burning speed worms across topped-out grass for years, and the Dash Worm is as good as anything I’ve ever thrown. Tail thumps hard without rolling the bait. I caught 7 fish in the first hour of daylight buzzing Watermelon Red. New favorite for covering water fast.