I never liked the look of a stick worm, so I never spent enough time with it. Shakeyhead seems like an unnecessary expense to me.

 

I've caught more fish with a T-rig than anything else by far. So yeah, confidence #1.

 

If you slide your bullet weight up a few inches on your line and peg it, is that a T-rig or a C-rig?

 

 

On 4/18/2024 at 5:19 PM, BrianMDTX said:

I know the prevailing wisdom is that a soft plastic on a worm hook with no weight is not a true Texas rig.

 

That's according Creme family

 

It was called a Texas Rig because it was founded on Lake Tyler in east Texas. The original weights were bank casting weights with the wire removed.

 

I started bass fishing a long time ago with a Texas rigged Culprit ribbontail worm in red shad.  I still reach for a Texas rig when I'm around a lot of vegetation.  I've got a lake here that's absolutely gobbed with vegetation, and you're not getting a shaky or jig through it.

In the early-mid spring I like Texas-rigging craws and creature baits most. Gives the most versatility between fishing it on the bottom, or even swimming it.

 

But in the summer, the worm is king. Craws and creatures still work, but most strikes seem to happen higher in the water column. Means lighter weights or other techniques that allow you to suspend the plastic a bit longer (or indefinitely) work better than a normal (1/4 or 3/16oz) T-rig.

 

But I’ve had little to no luck with the curly tailed worms. Need to fish them super slowly, I guess.