Due don't atke this the wrong way but you are waiting ''WAY'' to long to set the hook. This is why they are gullet hooked. I haven't gullet hooked a bass worm fishing in a very long time.
When you feel the tap and one picks it up, lower the rod quickly take up the slack and cross his eyes. Bass don't grab worms by the tail and run with it unless they are on the nest, the tap you feel isz the bass inhaling it, it's in his mouth...SET THE HOOK.