Texas Rig Questions

[lil cos64]

Hey everybody I'm new here at bass resource seems like a great site. But I have a question concerning Texas rig it's not sinking or working like I would like it to what could be the explanation for this

[Darren.]

Welcome! Stop by the introduction forum too.

Can you explain more of what you mean? Weight used, etc. could be a lot of things affecting the presentation.

[WRB]

The term Texas rig has lost it's original meaning; sliding bullet shaped sinker and a worm hook and soft plastic worm. The worm is rigged weedless by running the hook point into, then out of the worm nose, them back into the worm body.

The sinker "sinks" the worm, the rate of fall dependent on the size of weight and worm.

Tom

[HeavyDluxe]

For starters : From Bass Resource's own, prolific Glenn May:  

 

[Darren.]

The term Texas rig has lost it's original meaning; sliding bullet shaped sinker and a worm hook and soft plastic worm. The worm is rigged weedless by running the hook point into, then out of the worm nose, them back into the worm body.

The sinker "sinks" the worm, the rate of fall dependent on the size of weight and worm.

Tom

That'll do. Short-n-sweet!

[HeavyDluxe]

As a n00b, one of the things I struggled with in reading posts on this forums was - as Tom alluded to - the tendency of people to use the phrase "Texas Rig" somewhat loosely.

 

Here's what I learned, in case it's helpful...  

 

As Glenn points out in the video, a 'Texas Rig' is technically a particular way of fishing a soft plastic bait (usually a worm) by using a pinned or unpinned worm weight on the line above the hook.  There's a particular way of hooking the bait - sometimes called 'Tex-posing' - that involved running the nose of the bait up on the eye of the hook and then hooking back through the bottom of the bait in such a way the plastic hangs straight and the hook bard is flush with the bait or slightly buried (so it's weedless).

 

The trick is that lots of people refer to just about any Tex-posed soft plastic fished with bottom contact as a Texas Rig - even if it's weightless.  It can be confusing.

[lil cos64]

Yeahh thanks guys I should have searched the board site more before posting I appreciate the feed back tho