For a change up, try rigging the worm wacky style. Traditionally rigging the wacky style worm, you let the worm hang off the end of the hook at the middle balance point of the worm. This works, but I rig mine a little differently. For drifting, thread the leader through the worm at the just off center, middle balance point. The drift rigged wacky worm ends up resting on the leader above a 3 or 4 mm bead and the hook. I will then usually slide on my favorite drift bobber: Corky, Winner, Cheater or even a Rag foam bobber above the worm, peg the drift bobber with a piece of rubber band, pulled into the hole with a piece of folded mono. I have two ways I'll rig it wacky style for float fishing. Rig it just as you would for drift fishing, but instead of a drift bobber, slide on a 1/16 oz. or 1/8 oz. Cheater, Dedfish bait weight, pegged the same way as the drift bobber. The other way for float fishing is to rig wacky style onto a barbed collared jig head.

I'll drift and float fish length wise threaded worms also. To keep your worm from scrounching down the leader. Tie a four wrap uni knot with 1/16" tags on your leader after sliding on the bead, at the 3/4 point of the threaded worm. The uni knot threads 3/4 of the way into the worm, keeping the worm from scrounching down the leader. Peg the drift bobber and bait weight also, to help from pushing on the head of the worm.