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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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.



 

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.

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?

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

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

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.