Does anybody use leaders when fishing Texas rig worms and if so how long are.?

What kind of leader? Like a steel leader or fluorocarbon leader with braid?

 

20 minutes ago, Chilean said:

Does anybody use leaders when fishing Texas rig worms and if so how long are.?

Relly depends on the turbidity, underwater structure, and how much I am willing to retie a new leader. In general, 5-7 ft works fine

Would like to know if everybody put  leader or just goes straight to your braid when fishing Texas rig worm and how long they are?

I use braid to leader on all my rigs.  I deal with zebra mussels in the bodies of water I fish and have moved to long flouro leaders, between 7-30 feet.  The combo is the right feel for me and I bought rods that play well with a low stretch line set up, offers decent abrasion resistance regardless of rocks/zebras, weeds/zebras, and depth, also offers shock absorption for moving baits, and economy of constant retying of frayed line.  It's a system that works for me and I feel like I've negated almost all of the tradeoffs.  

 

scott

Flourocarbon leader ..Normally I fish shallow water and cloudy..

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If I'm fishing braid, then totally. Usually about five to six feet. Usually flurocarbon. 

Yes. 6-8’. 

This comes up pretty often, if you do a search for “leader” you’ll get a bunch. Here’s one. https://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/265614-leader-questions/#comment-3146824

1 hour ago, softwateronly said:

I deal with zebra mussels in the bodies of water I fish

 

Those things are nasty sharp.  Dragging anything bottom-contact through them with braided line is a recipe for disaster.

Yes, 6ft flouro 

Personally if I'm fishing a Texas rig worm on a baitcaster I use straight fluro. For shaky heads and wacky worm fishing I use braid with a fluro leader. My brother on the other hand will fish straight braid on Texas rigs and catches just as many fish as I do. JMHO.

Braid only for punching a t rig 

All other t rigs are straight flouro. 
 

No leaders

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

^ Ditto

Flouro for texas rigs on my rods

Welcome to the forum! I reside on the east side of south Florida. Same kind of water. I use flouro on my braid set ups. Usually about 6 feet so knot doesn't go into reel. 8 lb in more open water, 12 or 15 lb in grass. No leader for topwater. Hope this helps!!

Straight braid for punching or heavy cover, braid to leader (1 rod length) for t-rig for my bfs setups for light/med cover. Co-poly or fluoro for all other t-rig fishing, no right wrong or better, just what works for me, except when it doesn't lol

I'll start with about 5' of fluorocarbon and tie on another when it gets down to 1'.

Straight Flouro for me. No leaders

Short answer, yes braid to leader.

 

Long answer, for years I was straight braid. Then went to braid to leader, then this year went straight fluro, until the last river trip.

 

The water was a bit high, fast and it was windy. After blowing up three bait casters and losing two lures on small snags I’ve went back to braid with leader and straight braid on my jig and spinnerbait rods. Usually I use a 3-6 foot fluro leader on bait casters and around a twelve foot leader on spinning.

 

Spending time trying to pick out a bird's nest while being blown down the river in a canoe isn’t workable, at least for me.

Outside of frogging and punching, always a leader, but i personally never run a long one. One meter long is usually what i use for my fluoro leaders.

T-rigs for me are usually 30lb braid to 14lb fc leader. Leader as long as possible while keeping the knot outside the rod tip when pitching, and outside the reel when casting/skipping. I typically replace it when it gets down around 3'. While I've never ran into any problems, I'm not a fan of big hooksets on short leaders.

If I'm fishing heavy weeds or very dark water, no leader is needed. 

 

Normal situations, yes, I use a leader 4-5' long. 

I am pretty much straight braid for everything. I know, it’ll bite me one day, but whatever. My senko/finesse/fun to fish 6’6 spinning setup is 20lb braid with a flouro leader that is the length of my hook keeper to the next to last eye. Been doing it this way for a while now. That way, if I don’t have my rod in a sleeve, and I lean it up against something for example, I don’t have a chance of the leader getting caught between the eye and guide and getting a nick or something in it. I know the odds of that happening are probably so astronomical, but it’s what I’ve done, so…