I am a little embarrassed to admit this, but I am having trouble "hooking" my soft plastic baits. I have been recommended by a successful tournament fisherman to use a bait called chompers hula grub in green pumpkin at my local lake here in Ohio. He has been offering help since I started fishing( i work with his wife...she asks him a question for me and relays his advice back). Anyway, he hooked me up with one of these chompers grubs, and for the life of me, I can not seem to get this thing, or any other soft plastic, hooked up so the hook comes out the front of the bait and the bait is straight and natual looking. When I look at the bait, I think to myself, geeessshhh, this shouldn't be this hard, apparently you have to be smarter than the worm, grub, fluke, lizard, & hook and it looks like I am not. Can anyone give me some help... hopefully with pictures or drawings???

Also, what kind of hooks (brand, type, and size) are you guys using?

thanks for the help.

my favorite brand of hooks are Gamakatseau and Eagle Claw.

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http://www.catcherman.com/features/rigging/texasrigging030602sportmn.htm

in the pictures it shows the worm with a bullet weight on it, but you can also texas rig without a weight if you wish. you should be able to t-rig the hula grub the same way the photos show for the worm. hook size depends on the size of the bait you are using but you should be able to get away with a size 2/0 or 3/0 extra wide gap offset hook by gamatsuko for your hula grub.

http://www.bassresource.com/fish/tipsindex.html (check the section on soft plastics)

hope this helps!

Aaah I remember those days when I first started using soft plastics. Bait would always look crappy and unnatural heh. After some practice its easy as can be dun worry  

great video helped a lot had a few questions about t-and c- rigs myself

what about zoom brush hogs and ikas do you or can you T&C rig them also

what about zoom brush hogs and ikas do you or can you T&C rig them also

Ya sure can, just do the same thing, just this time the hook will lay on the back.