Texas rig

This is the basic weedless rig that put soft plastic worms on the map. A Texas rig can be weighted for bottom fishing or unweighted for an excruciatingly slow fall or topwater fishing.

How It’s Done: Insert the point of the hook into the soft plastic no more than ½ inch before bringing the point back out. Slide the plastic lure up the hook (moisten the hook for best results) until the head of the lure covers the hook eye, then imbed the point back into the lure so it hangs straight. The hook point can be brought all the way through the lure and the tip barely imbedded back into the lure (called “skin-hooked”) or left to ride on top of the bait (called “Tex-posed). The result is a weedless lure that can be fished anywhere. When weighted, the Texas-rigged soft plastic can be worked at any depth and through most cover. Target cover, docks, rock-piles, weeds – anywhere fish live. Unweighted Texas rigs are used for slow sinking soft plastics like floating worms and top-waters.

Soft Plastics For Texas Rigging: All soft plastics can be Texas rigged with the correct size hook.