Just got my first bag of Brush Hogs.  Today the water was cooler and it was a little windy so it wasn't a great day to try them out for very long.  I only casted with a hog 5 times or so.  I texas rigged it weightless and retrieved it with quick jerks and 3-5 second pauses as well as a steady slow retrieve.  No bites.  No biggie as I know I'm gunna slay some bass with them sooner or later.

Anyway, are you guys C-rigging them?  T-rigging them with weight?  Or fishing them weightless?  

Also, when/where/what types of conditions do you find they work the best, and when do you find they don't work as well?

You guys rock!  Your help is very appreciated and has worked wonders already.

Todd

Never fished one weightless, but have t and c-rigged them.  The t-rig is my favorite.  One of my favorite flippin' baits.

T-rigging them with a weight? Yes

When? Any time I'm near water

Where? Any body of water

What types of conditions? How many can you list?

In practical terms any method of rigging that can be applied to all the other soft plastics can be applied to a brush hog, the only one that doesn 't work just because the bait doesn 't swim is the shadding rig.

I fished them for the first time this morning, Caught 3,  2 of them 2 lbs,  1 about a 1/2 lb. I used a 3/0 hook and no weight.

Sounds good.  I fish from shore and it seemed the Bush Hog didn't cast that far.  All the apendages(sp) catch the wind and keep the casts short, so I just might T-rig it.

How do you guys retrieve it?  Do you fish it like a plastic worm?  Can they be fished in open water nowhere near trees, slop, brush, or any vegatation?  Or do they work best being pulled through some weeds?

T

I t-rig mine with a 4/0 EWG hook. The majority of the time, I use the lightest weight I can get away with (just enough to be able to keep in good contact with the bait). This is one time of the year (on thick weedy lakes) that I stray from that theory. I opt for weight around 1 ounce to punch down through the grass and work it along the bottom. I'll hop it or pull it along the bottom, stopping from time to time. Once I stop it, I'll let it set for a varied amount of time then shake the rod tip to make the hog "dance in place" then let it sit a little while long before moving on.

I fished it like a plastic worm, around lilly pads and got the biggest ones right off the cypress trees.

 I have always really liked jig n pig. When I found Brush Hogs and Baby Brush Hogs they pretty much took my attention away from jigs. I use 1/8, 3/16 and 1/4 oz weights and Trig them using my bait caster. Use Green Pumpkin and Watermelon Seed. Use them almost anywhere and especially in the nastiest, root infested wood pile I can find. I would call them my go to bait but I'm always using them ...

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