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The Worm:Here's His Story

By Louie Stout
BASSMASTER Magazine, June 2008

Monday, May 5, 2008

It was June 1967 and Ray Scott's first-ever bass tournament on Beaver Lake, Ark., was less than a minute old. A young Bill Dance, who had zipped across the cove to a sunken roadbed within sight of the marina where the tournament started, killed his 60-hp engine. He picked up a blue, Texas rigged plastic Fliptail Worm and tossed it into the water before his boat had stopped gliding. The moment the worm thunked the bottom, Dance felt the telltale tap and set the hook on a 2 1/2-pound largemouth. ...

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