I got a couple of light Kastking baitcasting reels for Christmas and I'm going to set them up as T-Rigs. They will be on medium rods. Trying to decide the best two plastics to use on these. I'd like your opinion. What would you choose as your top two Texas Rig plastics?

 

We have ice on the water now so it will likely be a couple of months before I can use them. So regardless of conditions, wanting to know your top two choices. Thanks!

Top 5 for me:

 

Baby brush hog

Smallie beaver

7" Power worm

Super hog

Swamp crawler

 

Allen

1. Zoom Trick Worm

2. Yum Dinger, Creme Soft Stick Baits and BPS Stick O's 30 pk. 10.99. Make sure you work 'em weightless too.

 

Good Fishing

7" Berkley Power Worm

6" Zoom Lizard

 

Honorable mention: Rage Tail Space Monkey

1. Zoom Salty Super Fluke

2. Zoom Trick Worm

Honorable Mention: Strike King Rage Tail Ned Craw

Rage Bug  Rage cutter Worm 

Most of my t-rig damage through the year is done on three baits 

1. Zoom ultravibe speed worm or gambler equivalent

2. Zoom ultravibe speed craw or gambler equivalent

3. Zoom mag 2

 

So for your two rods, I will recommend #1 and #2 with an honorable mention to #3. If it’s colder water, I do better with weightless senkos or brush hog-style lures

Something shorter and wider such as a Rage Bug or Sweet Beaver and then something longer and slender such as a Baby Brush Hog, Man Bear Pig or Hawgwalla.  It’s a contrast of profiles. 

Rage bug (or palmetto bug in heavier cover) and a boar hogz. One for bigger stuff and one for thinner stuff. Pinch off a leg for less action. 

Berkley havoc pit boss.

Senko weightless. 

 

Discontinued but if you can find them or similar the jackall I shad.

 

Honorable mention the biffle bug. 

Let's make it top three. 🦫 🦎 🪱

Zoom Z-craw worm

Zoom. Trick worm

Bizz Baits Dizzy Diamond

Bizz Baits  Cutter Craw

 

Yum Christie Craw in Blue/Black

Zoom Baby Brush Hog in GP

A worm! I like the Zoom Finesse Worm if it's cold and Berkley Power Worm when it's hot.

 

A craw or creature of some sort, I like the Missile Baits D Bomb or Zoom Mag lizard.

 

Don't sleep on stick baits, toads, flukes and poop baits fished weightless in special situations!!!!

 

 

1. Rage Structure Bug

2. Culprit 10” Ribbontail 

Zoom Ultravibe Speed Craw.

BPS Stik-o in the 5-3/8" size. 

I like the 5 inch Yum Dinger because number 1 ,  it gets bit. Number two , its heavy and easy to place in bass holding  spots.

 

 Lots of baits are tied for the second spot.

Zoom's Ultravibe Speed Worm & Speed Craw 

I like Zoom finesse worm, and Zoom critter craw.

It varies from year to year but in 2023 it was the 5in Senko and 3.5in DoLive Beaver.

15 minutes ago, FishTank said:

It varies from year to year

Funny how that works but its true.

Zoom UV Speed Worm 

Rage Bug

 

 

 

 

Mike

Zoom Mag Trick Worm

Zoom Mag UV Speed Worm

 

I throw them both weightless most of the time.  I also like the big Zoom lizards and Brush Hogs.  The worms get way more use however.  

Worm and creature.  

 

Brand doesn't matter for me.  They all seem to work about the same.  It's the bullet weight that matters more, in my opinion.  But my favorites are something that looks similar to a Berkley Creature Hawg and a curly tail worm.  Though sometimes I'll switch to something more subtle and realistic like a Berkley the Champ Craw or a Yamamoto Senko or Zoom Trick Worm if the bass aren't being very aggressive.  

 

It's nice to have options.  Though 9 times out of 10, if find the problem isn't what bait I'm using, but how and where I'm fishing it.  The cadence of my retrieve seems to be a much bigger factor than what plastic I have rigged.

Senko

Fat Ika

Rage Menace

Rage Structure Bug