You really never know what might pick up a Ned rig 🤣

@Bluebasser86 - oh baby! That's a fun one. I thought a small musky on a ned was doing something.

I consider any plastic rigged with the hook point buried in the plastic to be a Texas rig. Weighted or unweighted. The whole concept of being a Texas rig is to have it avoid being snagged in heavy vegetation.

Don’t really care what the plastic is. Could be a worm, lizard, creature, poop bait, whatever.

Just my opinion of course, some may disagree.

7 minutes ago, gim said:

I consider any plastic rigged with the hook point buried in the plastic to be a Texas rig. Weighted or unweighted. The whole concept of being a Texas rig is to have it avoid being snagged in heavy vegetation.

Do you Texas Rig your Carolina Rigs? 😉

On 1/14/2026 at 7:25 PM, gim said:

But technically once you rig it with an EWG hook that’s weedless, is it really still a “Ned rig?”

I think it’s a Texas rig at that point.

I call it a Texposed, mushroom-headed, 3” buoyant worm. Whatever it is though, that setup combined with the action I impart (or lack of action) ,catches me a ton of fish. 😀

1 hour ago, gim said:

I consider any plastic rigged with the hook point buried in the plastic to be a Texas rig. Weighted or unweighted. The whole concept of being a Texas rig is to have it avoid being snagged in heavy vegetation.

Don’t really care what the plastic is. Could be a worm, lizard, creature, poop bait, whatever.

Just my opinion of course, some may disagree.

The ned heads with the EWG hook still have the 90 degree hook eye. Because of this, I think you get a different presentation and better feel than a Texas rig with bullet weight.

2 hours ago, gim said:

Just my opinion of course, some may disagree.

Indeed.

IMO, one of the hallmarks of the Ned is the ability of the bait to stand straight up and down on bottom. Even with a buoyant bait and pegged weight, you don't really get the same effect with a Texas.

The closest I've come to that with a true separated weight Texas rig is with a Ryugi Bean weight.