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Learn five ways to rig bass fishing plastics to catch bass in any situaiton
We've had a bunch of requests to do a piece on how to tie several rigs for
bass fishing with soft plastics and when and where to fish them. We'll start
with this overview piece with diagrams on how to rig the plastics. We'll
follow up with underwater videos to show how the rigs look in the water and
we'll expand on these rigs with more advanced rigs in future pieces. But for
now here are the five basic plastics rigs we think every bass angler should
know.
1. The Texas Rig
The Basics - This is one of the first rigs most of learned for soft plastics
when we started bass fishing. The rig is pretty simple and becomes second
nature after you rig about 1,000 worms this way.
You start by piercing the hook point into the nose of the worm. Push it in
1/4 of an inch and then poke it out of the side of the worm at a 90 degree
angle. Run the whole hook out the side until you get to the eyelet. As you
approach the eyelet rotate the hook so the hook point is pointed back
towards the body of the worm. Now lay the hook to the side of the worm
keeping the worm straight. Make a mental note of where the bend of the hook
intersects the bottom of the worm. That抯 where you want to insert the hook
point and then thread it into the body of the worm.
The rig is weedless and snagless if the plastic is covering the worm. It
presents the worm both horizontally along the bottom if a bullet sinker is
added or horizontally towards the top if rigged weightless. It can also be
fished vertically with a heavy bullet sinker in applications like flipping,
pitching and punching. It's the best way to present a soft plastic bait in
heavy cover. Keeps the hook covered. It works in grass, rocks, brush,
timber and manmade structures.
Advanced modifications You can actually run the hook point back into the
side of the bait and out the other side and then lay the hook point on the
side of the body just pricking the point back into the plastic. This makes
it a lot easier to stick fish on a hookset but it抯 not as snagless around
dense cover. This method is actually called Tex-posing.
Some folks will stick a tooth pick or other keeper like the Eco Pro Tungsten
Diamond Pegs into the eyelet of the hook to lock the plastics in place on
the hook. The more your plastics tear from fighting fish, the less weedless
the rig will become so if you feel like you抮e starting to snag more it's
time for a new plastic.
2. The Carolina Rig
The Basics The Carolina rig is made to separate the worm from the weight
so that the worm is a more natural horizontal freedom of movement. As you
pull the weight along the bottom the worm will dance and dart and suspend
momentarily behind the weight.
To tie the rig, you slide a bullet or egg sinker onto your line, then slide
a bead or brass clacker on to the line behind the weight and hold them in
place while you tie a barrel swivel to the end of the line. Now take a
leader
from 2 feet to 5 feet and tie that to the other end of the barrel swivel. At
the end of your leader you抣l attach a hook and then thread your plastic on
to that hook either Texas rigged or Tex-posed.
This rig is weedless but it allows you to fish a worm faster through a
larger horizontal area like a ledge, a flat, a weedline, shallow weed beds.
It's not particulary good around rocks like rip rap as it tends to hang a
lot if you use a 1/2 to 1 ounce weight. It抯 a great way to feel the bottom
with a heavier weight and find things like isolated stumps or clumps of weed
.
You can fish it fast but as a general rule you want to keep the weight in
constant contact with the bottom. Think of it more like a slow crankbait.
Just pull it a foot at a time with a side sweep of your rod then take up the
slack and do it again.
Advanced modifications - We抳e seen a lot of success with a very small
weight like a 1/8 ounce bullet sinker and small plastics. It#039;s a finesse
Carolina rig that can fished on top of grass and through a little more
snag-prone cover more effectively. Smaller finesse worms, French fries and
even soft jerkbaits are extremely effective on this rig. And using a split
shot with a small plastic and no swivel can be great tool in ultra clear
water.
3. The Drop Shot Rig
The Basics - The drop shot rig presents the bait in a horizontal fashion up
off the bottom but is a tremendously effective way to fish vertically. In
contrast to the Carolina rig, the weight is at the bottom and the hook is
up the line anywhere from a few inches to several feet. With this rig you
can use the weight to hold your bait in one place and fish it up and down,
shaking it and enticing fish to come in and take a bite.
To rig it you start by tying a standard knot to the hook but making sure to
leave a long tag end from 6 inches to several feet in length depending on
how high off the bottom you want to fish the bait. After you tie your knot,
take that tag end and run it through the eyelet from the side the hook point
is on. This will cause the hook to kick out with the hook point upward. Then
texas rig your worm onto the hook or if you prefer a small drop shot hook,
just nose hook the worm just over the point.
At the bottom of your tag end attach a drop-shot weight or a bell sinker. We
like an Eco Pro Tungsten Pro dropshot weight and a VMC Spin Shot drop shot
hook for our rigs.
You can fish it vertically in cover or make casts to deep structure and work
it back slowly like a texas rig until you contact a piece of cover. Then
stop and work it up and down trying to just move the slack and not move your
sinker at all. As you put slack in the line the worm will fall. As you pull
the line tight the worm will rise in the water column.
Advanced modifications Using a small No.1 or 1/0 worm hook and texas
rigging the worm can be very effective for fishing around standing timber
and brush piles. Nose hooking on small finesse and drop shot hooks can be
effective for open water. And we抳e found that wacky rigging the worm on
the drop shoot hook is also effective for catching finicky bass.
We're also heard of anglers attaching a jig as the bottom weight to give the
fish two different baits to look at.
4. The Wacky Rig
The Basics The wacky rig offers anglers a very natural looking profile to
a bait that sits horizontal in the water but falls slowly vertically and can
be fished in one spot very well. It can be a weightless rig or have a ring
weights or belly weights like the Eco Pro Tungsten Wacky Rig weight added
to it to get it down in deeper water faster.
This is probably the easiest of the rigs to tie. Tie a hook to your line
with your favorite knot and then fold the worm in half and pierce the worm
through the middle. Then after you cast, let it fall and give it a few
slight twitches, then let it fall and twitch it some more. It looks like a
real earthworm writhing through the water column.
This is a great technique in clear water. The fish need to be able to see
the worm but it looks very lifelike. You can fish it around floating cover
like docks or around bedding bass or bass relating to vertical structures.
It's hard to fish it over large horizontal areas because it works so slowly.
Advanced modifications Lots of anglers like to use O-rings to keep the
bait on the hook. We actually prefer split rings sized to the size of the
worm we're using. A No. 6 or No 4 works for a lot of the baits we fish like
a Zoom Trick Worm and a Yamamoto Senko. It抯 as effective on a drop shot as
it is rigged weightless.
5. The Neko Rig
The Basics - Really we consider this rig probably 4b as it starts as a wacky
rig. But truth be told it's the exact opposite of a wacky rig because of
how the worm is displayed to the fish. Where a drop shot is a horizontal
presentation mostly fished vertically, the Neko rig is a vertical
presentation fished horizontally.
To tie the rig, tie your hook to the end of your line. Then pierce the worm
through the middle just like a wacky rig. Now insert a lead nail weight or
nail into the tail of the worm. As you fish the worm, it will stand on end
but as you twitch it, the worm will pull horizontally twitching forward
while
standing up vertically off the bottom. A very unique presentation for a
soft plastic.
Advanced modifications Several great insert waits exist now for rigging
this way. There are ball weights that insert into the tail, giving the
appearance of a shaky head that you can move from the middle of the worm
instead of the head of the worm. Split rings can keep the worm attached to
the hook while fighting fish. Just slide the split ring over the worm to
the middle and then run the hook point into the worm under the split ring
to hold it in place.
These presentations give you five great ways to tempt fish with soft
plastics. With weights, without weights and combined together, you can
make a lot presentations to the fish until you find the one that most
appeals to the bass on that particular day the next time you're out bass
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