Chicken rig

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13 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

Hmmmm....maybe we could pool our resources and commission a thread titled "Stik-O:  73 different presentations." 

 

I was pro staff for BPS for 15 years.  Many times I substituted "Stick-O" for Senko.  

[S-T-R-I-K-E-R]

so... has anyone actually tried it? how well did you do?

 

[HookRz]

I hear Loomis is coming out with a line of chicken rig rods at ICAST.

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21 hours ago, S-T-R-I-K-E-R said:

so... has anyone actually tried it? how well did you do?

 

 

I was fishing a small pond the other day the only thing they would bite was a pink colored roboworm.  I was fishing them on a Neko rig and a slider head.  The neko was wining, I believe due to the tail having more action and being higher up In the water when retrieved quickly. As each worm became a little too ripped to hold Neko style, I would switch to a chicken rig, using the hook to bridge the weak spot where the Neko hook had pulled out a few times.   It got hit pretty often, but the plastic would be ruined after a single good hit. 

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21 hours ago, HookRz said:

I hear Loomis is coming out with a line of chicken rig rods at ICAST.

 

wow..... april fools was a few weeks ago (just kidding).

 

umm  your statement made me think what kind of rod action should i look for to use on  this rig. 

[beardown34]

Tried out the chicken rig for the first time today.

 

A couple thoughts.

 

The part of the worm that is pierced by the hook eye gets torn up pretty quickly even without any strikes. Just by jigging the rig up and down. 

 

 

Last week I posted about how I made my own wacky saddle out of vinyl tubing with 2 holes drilled through it. That has been working out great for me with wacky rigging and I have not lost a worm due to wear and tear so far since the hook never goes through the worm. Turns out, I can use that same vinyl tubing saddle for the chicken rig. So that area of the worm where the line and hook eye start to tear through the worm when rigged like above -- now my line and hook eye just travel under the vinyl tubing but above the worm, so the worm never gets pierced anymore. Of course the hook end has to pierce the worm to complete the texas rig, so that part will eventually wear out. Makes it nice/convenient when fishing from the bank to be able to carry worms pre-rigged with a saddle, but then be able to fish it wacky or chicken (or Neko for that matter) without anything other than an appropriate hook size/style.

 

 

Minus the nail weight, it's a texas rigged wacky worm, rigged parallel to the worm. I'm not sure why no one bats an eye about the hook being parallel to the worm in this presentation, but the parallel orientation gets brought up with a traditional wacky rig.

 

Minus the nail weight, this is essentially Wayne P's wacky setup right? Except with an EWG or straight shank hook instead of a circle hook?