i want to start using lizards more often this season and i've usually been carolina rigging them. i want to try them texas rigged so i was just wondering how everyone else rigs thier lizards

Lizards have been my goto bait for years, and have always Texas rigged them pegged with a teenth oz or 1/8 oz. Give it a try you wont go back.

thanks, i think the size weights i have are 3/16th but i'll get some 1/8

I texas rig them with a 1/0 EWG hook and a 1/8 or 3/16 oz tungsten weight.

I used a lizard on a drop shot last year and caught two small ones, but I mainly use them on a T-rig.

Texas Rigged with a Mustad 3/0 Straight Shank Denny Brauer Flipping Hook & either a 3/16 or ¼ oz bullet weight.  

as a matter of fact i caught 12 today on a texas rigged zoom 6 " lizard in natural blue color. I rigged them on a 1/8 oz. gambler florida pegged sinker and a 4/0 owner worm hook(not wide gap)

I usually C-rig the lizard, but when I T-rig it I use 1/8 oz with a Zoom Magnum Lizard (watermelon candy).

I fish them both ways. TX Rig ans C-rig are very different.

TX Rig is more of a verticle presentation. I usually Tx rig a lizard to flip or pitch specific targets or to fish stump fields or grass edges. I usually just fish it with a 1/4 oz or 3/8 oz bullet wt. If I'm flipping bushes or grass, I'll peg the weight.

Carolina rig is my go-to presentation in the Spring and early Summer to cover water and locate fish. The great thing about the rig is that you can feel everything that's on the bottom while moving fairly quickly. Carolina rig is more of a horizontal presentation, while keeping bottom contact. It's alos a great tool for fishing off-shore structure fairly deep.

Have any of you guys made a topwater lizard swim? And while we are on the topic, does anybody know of flaptail lizards?

                      -searoach

Fliptail lures was a staple in Texas for many years  

http://www.fliptail.com/