I've been messin around useing a pegged 1/4 oz tungsten weight when useing a Rage Craw instead of the Rage rigging method latley and doing fair with it.

There is no difference on the retrieve obviously, but was curious if anyone prefer's a nose first initial drop instead of the horizontal drop a Rage Rig gives.

Thanks

Mike

I pretty much never Rage rig a craw.  It's on a traditional T-rig, with the weight pegged or not (cover decides this), or I use a jika rig.

I Rage rig all the time with craws and T-rig them......just depends on what presentation the fish are in the mood for.....I do use a different retrieve method, again depends on the mood of the fish..(they tell me what the want)....I use the Moaner Hook..Stroker Weight on my rage rigs.....I will say I like using bigger plastics for T-rigs..like the Gene Larew ..Biffle bug 5"..I don't peg most of the time my T-rigs...I feel I get a better presentation of the bait. If I'm pitching or flipping then yes I will beg the weight....

 

Master these two rig technique presentations and hang on...

 

Tight lines..

While I don't fish the Rage Craw I love me some Rage Lobster!

During warm water periods I like the quicker rate of fall of the Texas Rig (un-pegged)

During cold water periods I like the slower rate of fall & horizontal drop of the Rage Rig

As an update , what are your favorite Strike Rage Tail baits to Rage Rig + hook size + weight size used ?

Smoking Rooster, 6/0 Owner Beast.  It's a dead ringer for a baby bullhead or madtom.

A pumpkin colored bullet weight unpegged with a craw or lobster works here.

Thanks Fellas...

The rate of fall for a Rage Rigged... Rage Craw, Smokin Rooster, Cut R, Stucture Bug or Space Monkey with an Owner 5/0, 1/4 oz, molded keel weighted hook with the centering pin, is much slower than a 1/4 oz T rig, pegged or unpegged.

Sure for punching or to penetrate very thick cover, a pegged T Rig is the only choice...But Other than for that one presentation, (I've been rigging both ways for a long time) I really can't say that one way gets bit more than the other.

Keep in mind I fish In Florida where there isn't the cold water as in other locale's where a slower fall would be ideal.

To me the rate of fall with a 1/4 oz or even the way it falls, horizontally or vertically doesn't make any appreciable difference.

That's why I asked.

Mike