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Offline mocnyang

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The Texas Rig
« on: March 10, 2010, 12:27:01 PM »
Just curious if anyone has any tips on the Texas rig I used it last year and caught a good amount of largemouth on a 4/0 with a powerbait pumpkin seed chigger craw and gulp watermelon sink worm. lmk some tips and tricks please. thanks
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Re: The Texas Rig
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2010, 12:29:30 PM »
Texas rig is one of my favorite rigs.  Almost all my plastic fishing is t rigged.

I always run the hook through then skin hook the point to get less hang ups and grass.

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Re: The Texas Rig
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2010, 12:38:33 PM »
Yea, where i fish there is alot of cover areas good for this rigs and i always skin it otherwise i would never get the bait back out of the water.  Any tips for the retrieve. I would do the slow reel with periodic twitch and pause and it worked well.  Never pulled in a big one doing that.  I was thinking that it might just be the waters but there is huge bass in there that ive seen but can never get them in.
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Re: The Texas Rig
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2010, 12:38:58 PM »
I have a habit of pegging my sinker every time. I think if you don't have tree branches to worry about it's not quite so necessary to do that.  You can vary your hook size according to the bait size. That way you're not undersized or over sized and your T-rig is balanced.  When My bait is rigged I always attempt to make it hang in a straight line form. It helps to prevent or minimize line twist.



 
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Re: The Texas Rig
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2010, 02:05:55 PM »
If I'm not throwing a tube or a jig,it's T-rigging soft plastics.


Don't be afraid to let it sit for a minute or two(deadsticking).Speed and rate of fall is probably the most important thing you need to watch and figure out.Take notes what the fish are doing that day and where they are. Once you figure that out,you'll have a great day!
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Re: The Texas Rig
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2010, 02:14:08 PM »
Most of my retrieves are a drag with a 1-2 oclock rod and pull toward 12 oclock.  This keeps the bait out of the rocks for me.
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Re: The Texas Rig
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2010, 02:41:47 PM »
I'll do a drag, reel up the slack or a hop, hop, hop reel up the slack or just a slow crawl along the bottom.
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Re: The Texas Rig
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2010, 05:00:14 PM »
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I would do the slow reel with periodic twitch and pause and it worked well.

What you've typed here appears to be a basic twitch and pause retrieve on bottom. No problem there, it'll work most all the time. However, if you used say a 7.5" ribbontail t-rigged worm you could try swimming it just off the bottom when nothing else would work. You can do this up in the water coloumn too, for those bass that are suspendind slightly off the bottom as well as suspended way pff the bottom. Swimming a lizard the same way works well too at times.

Do you cast, pitch or flip more with your t-rig? Some of all?
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Re: The Texas Rig
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2010, 05:17:46 PM »
I do a lot of each mostly flipping or pitching cause I work the shores of harbors and creeks. I mostly on cast when trying to run along a channel.  The one I like to do the most though is flip for hard to get spots
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Re: The Texas Rig
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2010, 06:23:07 PM »
One of my favorite plastics presentations. I go weightless most of the time, if I am fishing the bottom I usually am Jiggin
  I switched over from EWG hooks this year when using baits lIke a Manns Jelly Worm ( 8 inchs) and Zoom Trick Worms to old school off set worm hooks and with these narrower profile t rigged baits I had more hook ups without the EXG

 Still use EWG on Brush Bugs and Fat Ikas.

Grimlin makes an excellent point about fall rate and by using different hook wieghts ( thinner mil, lighter the hook) you can get different sink rates from the same bait, by changing the hook
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Re: The Texas Rig
« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2010, 07:41:29 PM »
Has anyone ever used t rigged powerbait chigger craws. I used them last season and I was landing keepers when no one else was. They work great on rock piles  and channel edges.
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Re: The Texas Rig
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2010, 07:43:30 PM »
I used the 4.5 inch Alluring Craws this way and was nailing keepers ( 15 inches on my home lake) off rock piles in 12 ft of water with a Trigged Craw on a Slider Jig Head

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Re: The Texas Rig
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2010, 10:14:20 PM »
I use mainly pitch with a Chigger Craw but I've never tried it just fishing it like a normal T-rig. I might have to try that.
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Re: The Texas Rig
« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2010, 03:49:37 AM »
One of my favorite plastic presentations is a t-rigged Paca Craw.
Another is the 5” Sweet Beaver. I vary the weight to offer different sink rates. Most of the time I peg my weights no matter what plastic I using.
Another favorite is the t-rigged Tiki Stik used as a jerk bait. I always tie a swivel about 18” above the bait and use a 1/8th oz pegged weight. It can be a killer rig jerked through the top of weeds.