Skin Hooking

[papajoe222]

I was just wondering how you guys skin hook your plastics.  The reason I wonder is because of a recent experience I had while fishing with my neighbor.  We were fishing 6in. stick worms and he was missing a lot of fish. I saw that he was only using a 2/O hook and suggested he skin hook the worm for better hook ups, but he continued to miss fish, I gave him a 4/0 Gammy and when he cut off to tie it on I noticed that he had the worm T-rigged. When I asked why he didn't take my suggestion, he replied that he did and showed me the hook point in the worm.

My idea of skin hooking is to bring the hook point up through the side of the plastic rather than the center. I really dislike miscommunication with fellow anglers, especially when it leads to missed opportunities. He began hooking up after changing out to the larger hook, but I wonder what kind of day he would have had . Did I mislead him?

[jbarlowgd]

I've always considered akin hooking to be when you bring the hook through the bait as you said, then burring the tip of the hook in just enough to not get snagged up on structure.

[BassinLou]

My interpretation of skin hooking a soft plastic is by placing the hook through and on the other side of the bait and then lightly burying the hook tip on the skin of the bait. 

[cdemarse]

I also think skin hooking is all the way through the bait and then cover hook tip.

When I don't skin hook I do rig through the thinner side of the bait though.

[Canyon explorer]

My method of skin hooking is the same as Papa Joe's whereby the  hook point goes barely under the skin a short way then back out so the hook has little plastic to come thru before going into the fish. I use it often except when I am fishing brush and large chunk rock.

[Snakehead Whisperer]

To me skin hooking is either like this...

 

or like this...

[Jig Man]

This is just a version of the Texas rig. We always called it Tex-skin. This article says Texas rig but it is actually Tex-skin if you read what it says.

http://www.wikihow.com/Texas-Rig-a-Plastic-Worm

[WRB]

You will find terminology changes and becomes regional interpretation.

A good example is Texas rig; today it is a weedless style of hooking soft plastics, both hook point styles, covered by a thin skin of the soft plastic or not. Originally or back in the day it met the same hook method and included a sliding bullet weight. We called Texposed when the hook point is exposed.

Skin at one time met hooking through the side of the worm, today it mean the same as Texas hooked, except exposing the hook point, then pulling it back and skin covering the hook point on the top worm surface or side.

In other words the term has been hijacked with regional or personal interpretation.

Tom

[HoosierHawgs]

To me skin hooking is either like

that's what I get from skin hooking

[RoLo]

Skin-hooking ain't so bad,

but down to the bone...now that can hurt!

[papajoe222]

I figured it meant different things to different anglers, but what would you call what I consider skin hooking???

Arkansas hooking? Or.......? Be creative, we may coin a new phrase. BTW, How an old fart with poor eyesight Texas rigs is NOT an option.

[RoLo]

I figured it meant different things to different anglers, but what would you call what I consider skin hooking???

 

I was only kidding of course      

 

To answer your question Joe, I very rarely Texskin the hook, but only because most of our lakes are very shallow & weedy. 

In other words, the easier I make it to hook a fish, the easier I make it to hook vegetation.

I only use braided line, so burying the hook-point in plastic doesn't pose any problem with hook-sets.

 

Roger

[CeeJay]

I guess I use the "Texposed" rig?  Or whatever it's called when the hook is threaded through the bait like usual weedless rigging, but then pulling it up and through so that the hook point is laying flat and against the top of the worm (or senko).  I test them by dragging across the carpet floor, and then make adjustments if it snags the carpet.

[the reel ess]

I usually Tex-skin with worms or craws. I never do it from the side although I've heard of that, mostly with tubes. You need a hook big enough to skin hook with. I like an EWG for skin hooking craws. If I'm fishing something weightless like Trick Worm or a fluke, they're Texposed.

[CeeJay]

Whatever this is called is how I rig my Senkos...is it "Texposed"?  The terminology and variants get confusing.

This one is the 3" that caught my pb largemouth...now retired  

 

[RoLo]

Texposing and Texskinning are really very similar.

A Texposed bait is T-rigged with the hook-point exposed (Texas Rigged+Exposed = Texposed).

A Texskinned bait is first Texposed, then the bait is stretched forward

and allowed to retract over the point, which covers the point skin-deep in plastic (Texas Rigged+Skinned = Texskinned).

In the salad bowls that I fish, I don't use either method, but instead I bury the hook-point

in the core of the soft-plastic trailer, so it's completely entombed in plastic.

Even at that, it usually isn't long before my lure is fouled in vegetation

 

Roger

[basshole8190]

I suppose I rig mine tex skinned then

[scaleface]

Some hooks cant be used to skin hook , Study your hooks .