For my own reference, is a Texas rig considered a power technique?  

I'm primarily a junky shallow water angler with a yearning to up his offshore game in love with squarebills and pitching jigs.

 

Give me a log.  Give me a laydown.  I'll give you a fish.

Type: impatient shallow water angler.  Primarily because I've been a bank and Georgia jonboat fisherman.

 

60% of the time:  spinning gear with soft plastics: senkos, flukes, and ned rigs; occasional dropshot.

40% of the time: baitcasters with T-rigs or moving baits of every description, so long as we are talking shallow water.

 

I collect jigs and frogs but don't fish them much yet.

 

Just getting into kayak fishing and that is changing my perspective on the world.

17 minutes ago, NoShoes said:

For my own reference, is a Texas rig considered a power technique?  

The way most people fish the texas rig, yes it would be considered a power technique, but I often times will texas rig worms and creature baits with 1/8th or 1/16th ounce bullet weights with a lightwire ewg hook, on 10 pound braid to a 8 pound flourocarbon leader on a medium powered spinning set up.  Which is definitely finesse.

 

 

is "struggling" a style 

Junk angler right here.  I'll have everything from a 1/2 oz. spinnerbait to a split shot rig in the boat with me.  I'm trying to get into finesse fishing for the winter months, but old habits die hard.

11 minutes ago, Kdizzle said:

The way most people fish the texas rig, yes it would be considered a power technique, but I often times will texas rig worms and creature baits with 1/8th or 1/16th ounce bullet weights with a lightwire ewg hook, on 10 pound braid to a 8 pound flourocarbon leader on a medium powered spinning set up.  Which is definitely finesse.

 

 

Gotcha, thanks. Usually sling a 1/4 oz weight but been thinking of setting up 1/8 with a 4” finesse worm. I figured it would vary based off it’s use. 

Free style?

Tom

1 hour ago, Bruce424 said:

is "struggling" a style 

 

Is there another kind? 

2 hours ago, NoShoes said:

For my own reference, is a Texas rig considered a power technique?  

I would say it depends on how you use it.

 

When you are flippin' & pitchin' a TRig, quickly moving from target to target, I would consider that power fishing (especially with heavy gear in decent to heavy cover).

 

However, if you are slowly moving a TRig through a location, making each cast last 40 seconds or so, then I say that you are finessing them.

 

I am of the opinion that most types of baits can be fished in either a power or finesse method, but I may in the minority with that kind of thinking.

Watching me fish- you could describe it as pathetic, but I do love it so. 

On 11/15/2020 at 5:12 PM, NoShoes said:

For my own reference, is a Texas rig considered a power technique?  

I've heard it said that any time you are searching for a reaction strike from aggressive fish, you're power fishing. If you're searching for a bite from hungry fish and therefore presenting your bait slowly as easy prey, you're finesse fishing.

Catcherman.

On 11/15/2020 at 5:12 PM, NoShoes said:

For my own reference, is a Texas rig considered a power technique?  

Nope 

 

I don’t think I’ve ever “dialed” in a “pattern”, I just fish. 

I try to do whatever seems to work, but I do try to power fish when that seems to work.

I throw many baits situation dependent. The one thing that I always do , day or night, is find the nastiest cover around and throw a jig, worm, or creature right in the middle. 

 

That said; as I approach 6/10 of a century I am increasingly predisposed to fishing the way I like to fish.  I will throw fast moving baits and on occasion I will try something that's new to me. BUT.... bottom bumping/dragging baits are my thing. 

 

I don't know that I have a style or label but I do know that I love fishing as much now as that little boy of yesteryear. 

7 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I don’t think I’ve ever “dialed” in a “pattern”, I just fish. 

 

It is an out of body experience the first time you are able to do it.  You know exactly what you need to do to get bit, yet are still amazed that each time you replicate it, you get bit again.

Selective.  I select anything except an umbrella rig.  

I use to think of myself as a power fisherman but the more I've learned the more I realize I'm a junk fisherman.  I like to know how to fish multiple techniques so I can fish whatever the conditions are.  I prefer to power fish but when that's not working I have no issues throwing a ned rig or wacky rig.  I just do what it takes to catch them.

Power fishing.  Most all of the lakes near me are somewhere between heavily stained to muddy.  So I pretty much stick to crankbaits, spinnerbaits, topwater, pitching jigs and occasionally jigging spoons.  

 

Though desperate times call for desperate measures.  So nothing is completely off the table.

I'd describe it as minimalist.  Right now I've got a jig rod that occasionally gets a chatterbait and another rod that has a toad on it when the time is right and a paddle tail swimbait on any other time.  Crankbaits and spinnerbaits attract too many pike around here, and a T-Rig isn't versatile enough for my liking.  I've tried but can't do the finesse type stuff.  I do have a 3rd rod in the garage I'm considering picking up a reel for and transition the swimbait to that with an occasional weighted wacky, but I've got all winter to decide on that.

20 minutes ago, ajschn06 said:

...a T-Rig isn't versatile enough for my liking.  

Now that's funny!

 

35 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

Now that's funny!

 

To each their own- I haven’t had any success swimming a T-Rig?‍♂️ 

https://www.bassresource.com/beginner/Texas_Rig.html

 

https://www.bassresource.com/fishing/texas-rigs.html

 

https://www.bassresource.com/fishing/texa-rig-soft-plastic.html

 

https://www.bassresource.com/fishing/worm-fishing.html

 

https://www.bassresource.com/fishing/worm-fishing-1.html

15 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

https://www.bassresource.com/fishing/texas-rigs.html

 

https://www.bassresource.com/fishing/texa-rig-soft-plastic.html

 

https://www.bassresource.com/fishing/worm-fishing.html

Great articles- just hasn’t translated for me.  I like a jig because I can swim it high, swim it low, drag it, pitch it, hop it... whatever I want.

 

A T-rig, in theory, should be the same but I’ve thrown them in the same areas when they are biting a jig and when they aren’t and it just hasn’t worked for me.  I much prefer a jig and it’s more versatile for me