Drop / split shots, floating, weightless, wacky, Texas, Ned etc.

 

ive done well on split shot, floating, and fishing a weightless 6 inch ribbon tail around grass in summer, Texas pegged in pads and brush and on road beds.

and a white twitch worm on riprap, it’s just a 4 inch straight tail on a small hook twitch twitch pause repeat 

I’ve caught more on a WR by far. But I truly like fishing a TR with a 1/4 oz. tungsten bullet weight and either a Zoom Trick worm, Zoom Mag 2 or a 9” Mann’s Jelly worm with a Gammy 3/0 EWG hook and slowly working it across the bottom. When I feel that “tap-tap-tap” and drive that hook home, I feel like I’ve truly caught that bass vs the lure doing most of the work on its own. 

I always use to fish a t-rig until a few years ago. Now it’s a split shot rig or weightless. 

Split shot seems to have more control 

 

i fish light and small 1/16 or 1/8 and 4 inch straight tail but a lot of curly tails back in the good ole days when mister twister was boss

 

and jig worms I forgot them

small lead head on a 4 inch ribbon tail with constant retrieve was deadly

 

 

 

I'd say a weightless senko or trick worm is my most productive.

Texas, drop shot, wacky

I use a variety of (mostly) straight tail worms rigged on home-made tokyo/jika rigs 50%+ of the time, otherwise the same worms split time between flipshot or mojo rigs.

Since I started throwing Neko and Chicken rigs I don't throw a SH as often, especially in grass.  Ive caught some real nice fish on Nekos, but nothing will ever take the place of the SH.  SH is my favorite way to catch fish on a worm.

I fish 5 worms:

 

4" Senko

 

5" Senko

 

3" Robo ned worm

 

4.5" Roboworm straight tail worm

 

7" Berkley power worm.

 

Senkos get used in just about every way possible, weightless texas and wacky, wacky jig, neko, dropshotted wacky, weighted t-rig, and more

 

Ned worms get used on a mushroom, or small football head, and I have even had great success drop shotting them. They are real sleeper fishing weightless too. Every spring and fall on calm overcast days in mid to low 50 degree water, big smallmouth pull up to the deep weed line here and suspend for some reason, they won't go down for a jig, tube, or ned rig. The drop shot falls too fast through them, and they won't chase swimbaits/grubs. But they can't stand that little ned worm texas rigged, but weightless falling. It gets bit 10:1 over a 4" senko, and 20:1 over anything wacky rigged in the cooler water during this little window of odd behavior they have.

 

Roboworms are my go-to drop shot worm 99% of the time nose hooked, and can also be deadly on very light line and a small 1/16th oz wacky jig in ultra tuff conditions.

 

Power worms are great for swimming a worm, pitching into and around cover on a t-rig when the jig/beaver/craw bite is "off", and they are excellent on a power shot.

What’s SH?

whats a chicken rig? 

I like fishing worms any way you can rig them 

Mid-summer night, deep water structure, full moon on the horizon, gentle southern breeze, Hoot Owl in the distance, that solid thump on a T-rig!

 

Yea I like that! ?

38 minutes ago, Catt said:

Mid-summer night, deep water structure, full moon on the horizon, gentle southern breeze, Hoot Owl in the distance, that solid thump on a T-rig!

 

Yea I like that! ?

Bug spray?

Light t rig, slow hops, or lift drop on the bottom.

Texas rig.  My grandfather, who lived in Texas, taught me how to fish it like that.  He didn't even know there was another way to do it until I introduced him to the Carolina rig that I saw on Bill Dance or Jimy Houston.  Still, he obviously had the bass in his local lakes trained to eat those Texas rigged, purple, curly tailed worms because they'd hit those 3 to 1 over any other worm method.

Any way, as long as I can back reel them in.

Texas rigged with a quarter ounce of lead.  I've been doing it since I was a kid.

Texas rig in cover and shaky head in more open water scenarios.

It's hard to beat Texas overall. 

Also like weightless in heavy cover, Neko and drop-shot on flats.

Texas rigged has always worked well for me. 

Drop shot from a boat and neko from shore

texas rig, dragged or hopped 

Favorite- 1/8 oz Tungsten bullet in front of a 7/0 EWG with a 10-14" ribbon tail at night

Most Productive- Ned TRD

On 10/21/2020 at 3:45 PM, BrianMDTX said:

I’ve caught more on a WR by far. But I truly like fishing a TR with a 1/4 oz. tungsten bullet weight and either a Zoom Trick worm, Zoom Mag 2 or a 9” Mann’s Jelly worm with a Gammy 3/0 EWG hook and slowly working it across the bottom. When I feel that “tap-tap-tap” and drive that hook home, I feel like I’ve truly caught that bass vs the lure doing most of the work on its own. 

this but 1/8oz is by far my comfort bait of choice

On ‎10‎/‎21‎/‎2020 at 10:10 PM, Sissyfishing said:

What’s SH?

whats a chicken rig? 

SH=Shakey Head

The Chicken rig is kind of like a weedless neko because its T rigged...Search Chicken Rig and Tiny Child Rig on Youtube