Took my lunch break today. Stopped at one of our creeks and hooked into a nice fish. Hooked her on a drop-shot *** 5" ***. I also had a question about texas rigged plastics. Does anyone have a problem with missing the hit? I have been tex-posing lately and I seem to be catching more fish. Everytime I go back to texas-rigged I seem to miss them and tex-posing I almost never miss the strike. Am I just not setting the hook hard enough or a little slow on the set? Or could it just be the luck of fishing.

Good looking fish congrats.  On the texas rigged question I have had that problem in the past and I figured that I had the hook buried to deep in the bait I didn't push it all the way through just kind of skin hooked it.  Once again congrats on the lunch break bass.

I fished with Senkos for the first time today and I felt like I missed a lot of hooksets I would normally make on my Zoom trick worms. I don't know if it's because they're not as big around and I wasn't used to the hook being so deep in the Senko or what, but I understand what you're saying. Tomorrow I'm definately going to try Tex-posing my Senkos, although I'm kinda afraid since they're so fragile to begin with, I'd think I will lose a lot more and getting more isn't as easy for me as it is to get trick worms.

Great looking fish! Weight?

4lbs 6oz was the weight. It was really long but not a huge girth or body. Plus Spawn is getting over and probably have lost some weight. Great fight though. Lasted about 10 mins. d**n thing kept running into a downed tree where I flippin and caught it. My buddy cught this one about 30 mins leter down the bank flipping some grass.

I have been tex-posing with wide gap hooks, I don't think they rig the texas as well as the older style, tru turn or 45's.  

T-rigging and Tex-sposing are two different things;  apples and oranges for instance.

Texas-rigging is the method/technique including usually a weight(but not necessarily with a Senko) and an EWG worm hook.

Tex-sposing just refers to the way the hook's point is pierced through the worm, etc.  I have always used Tex-skin-on-top when using any soft-plastic except when wacky-rigging of course.  You should always run the hook's point all the way through the bait and let it lie on top of the bait then pinch the worm's 'skin' a little(1/32"?) behind the point and bring the skin forward and up over the tip.  Now the bait is weedless but ready to spring into action!

Dan