C-Rig baits

[Dypsis]

I have really never fished this rig before but I am fishing Kerr for a club tournament in early April and I've been told a C-Rig can be a great option.  What baits do you think to throw with the old ball and chain?

Thanks.

[backcast88]

You can throw just about any soft plastic on a Carolina rig.  Just depends on what your comfortable with.  I usually mix it up but here's what I tend to throw:

Trick worm

Brush hog/ D Stroyer (or any other creature bait)

Lizard

Ol'Monster/ Big Dead Ringer

[fishballer06]

I usually prefer to throw some sort of craw or creature bait, because of how you drag a c-rig along the bottom. However, I know a lot of guys throw worms and have good success as well. Much like a Texas rig, there's really no wrong way to fish a Carolina rig either. 

 

If the c-rig bite is good and you want to give them a different look, don't be afraid to throw a swinging rugby jig either. A 3/4oz. with a Biffle Bug or D Bomb was one of my better deep water lures this year. 

[scaleface]

I'm a Zoom Lizard guy but lots of stuff will work just as well . Do Nothing French Fry worms catch a lot of fish .

[Mike L]

Ive been useing a speed worm more and more lately. That tail action seems to be the ticket!

 

Mike

[RB 77]

Anything really. My favorite is a medium sized creature.

[A-Jay]

I do not do a ton of C-rig angling, but a solid producer when I do is the SK rage tail eeliminator.

 I believe Mr Parks designed this bait specifically for the Old Ball & Chain and if he didn't, he might as well have.

It's pretty Killer - the rigging is important.

A-Jay

 

[RyneB]

Big brush hog is my favorite. The other little trick iv used to get bit is put puts punch skirt on and rig it with a Rage lobster. Other bait that has done me well is a Smokin Rooster

[Bluebasser86]

Lizard or a full sized Brush Hog.

[Raul]

My first bass ever back in 1980 was caught with a C-rig ....... a C-rigged RAPALA ORIGINAL FLOATING MINNOW.

So, not only soft plastics are C-rigged FYI  .

[scaleface]

14 minutes ago, Raul said:

My first bass ever back in 1980 was caught with a C-rig ....... a C-rigged RAPALA ORIGINAL FLOATING MINNOW.

So, not only soft plastics are C-rigged FYI  .

I caught a bass on a C-rigged Bill Plummer Super frog . I was pond fishing and wanted a frog to look like it was swimming under water . I was new to bass fishing and trying all kinds of stuff . Never heard of a c-rig , just wanted that frog under the water.

[Raul]

59 minutes ago, scaleface said:

I caught a bass on a C-rigged Bill Plummer Super frog . I was pond fishing and wanted a frog to look like it was swimming under water . I was new to bass fishing and trying all kinds of stuff . Never heard of a c-rig , just wanted that frog under the water.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss. I knew nothing about bass fishing until 1980 when we moved from Mexico City to León where I live now, I fished for carp and for hatchery raised trout in several pay-to-fish places around Mexico City and even though we came to León to visit my grandparents every two weeks and I stayed my vacations here I never went ( and nobody took me ) warm water fishing. So here I am completely new to warm water fishing, the only thing I new, because my cousin told me, was that there was a warm water predatory fish called LOBINA common in ponds and lakes in the zone, so I thought: "if it´s a predator then it can be caught with lures"  and I had lures, I caught trout with in-line spinners and those Rapala minnows. A friend invited me to a placed called "Lomas De Comanjilla", a gated community with a "lake" ( actually it´s very large pond ) to fish; we went fishing and when I arrived what struck me was the water, it was the muddiest least visibility place you can imagine, the visibility was like 2 inches, I prepared the C-rig and attached a silver/black back minnow and cast it into the mud, at that time I didn´t know the rig I made was called a C-rig, it was a rig a friend of my father taught me to do to catch trout, I dragged the rig and after a few pulls the line tightened and I set the hook, minutes later I landed the fish, it wasn´t a monster, it was maybe a pound but since then I was hooked forever into bass fishing.

 

 

[SwampLife]

I don't c rig often but when I do and when I had sucess is with a trick work, finesse worm or fluke..

some one previously posted about about the speed tail worm.. That has my wheels turning now because one of my confidence baits is a rate cut-r worm.. 

[blckshirt98]

i don't c-rig much but in the handful of baits I've tried I liked the action of the Gambler Ugly Otter the best.  Pop it up off the bottom and it has a nice action on the fall, and, when you drag it as well.

[papajoe222]

I've used everything from Rapalas to 12in. worms, but when it comes to soft plastics, I prefer a bait with no salt as it tends to stay off the bottom longer.  Havoc has a diverse line of no salt baits.

[Bankbeater]

I don't use a c-rig unless I have tried everything else.  When I do use one I like to use the same baits that I would use for weightless fishing. Mostly senkos, flukes, and tubes.

[Jaheff]

I love throwing the C-rig from shore in Summer and Winter time when fish are deeper (25+ft).Flukes, trick worms,lizards, and rage baits are my choices.

I don't know if it's cause of unpressured fish or cause i hold the rod out to the side of me with a C-rig, but i've had three and four pounders almost rip the rod out of my hands with the C-rig.

[scaleface]

[BobP]

About 90% of the time, it's a Zoom 5" lizard in green pumpkin.  Year after year, it just catches'em.

[Choporoz]

Back before I knew better, I used to do pretty well with senko at the end of a c-rig.....been a number of years since I tried it, however

[Munkin]

Lizard, finesse worm, French fry, fish doctor have been my best baits.

 

Allen

 

[scaleface]

1 hour ago, Choporoz said:

Back before I knew better, I used to do pretty well with senko at the end of a c-rig.....been a number of years since I tried it, however

LOL  yep . I still catch fish the wrong way . I have an uncle who catches most of his fish the wrong way . Stupid uncle .

[ww2farmer]

I K.I.S.S. with the C-rig.....my go-to baits are a 6" straight tailed worm (Berkley Havoc Bottom Hopper) and/or a 7" Berkley Power Worm. Sometimes if I am feeling a little saucy I'll use a 5" Yum dinger.

[Dypsis]

Looks like anything will work and I can just use what I already carry around.  Thanks for all the suggestions.

[Airman4754]

Grande Mutant, Rage Anaconda, Rage Lizard, Brush Hog, 8" Kicker Fish lizard.