How do you texas rig?

[fishballer06]

When rigging a plastic bait, there are a few different ways to go about it. So I'm curious about how everyone else does their rigging. Which method do you use and why do you prefer your way over the other? If you use both, explain why. 

 

A. Bury the hook point inside the plastic. 

B. Pass the hook point completely through the bait, and then Tex-Pose the tip of the point back in the bait.

[riverbasser]

B. 

 

I'm a poser

[Choporoz]

B only....didn't know A was a 'thing'

[Mike L]

B.

Unless I'm punching useing a Trokar hook. 

 

 

 

Mike

[J Francho]

Depends on the plastic, how soft it is, and what cover I'm throwing to.

[crypt]

4 minutes ago, Mike L said:

B.

Unless I'm punching useing a Trokar hook. 

 

 

 

Mike

this....

[NYWayfarer]

Most of the time B, If not B I leave the hook completely exposed. Example would be rigging a Yum Dinger. There is a slot in that bait to hide the hook. No tex-posing necessary.

 

I also like to pass the hook through enough that I can get the knot buried inside the plastic.

[fishballer06]

8 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Depends on the plastic, how soft it is, and what cover I'm throwing to.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who does both. 

 

12 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

B only....didn't know A was a 'thing'

A is great for punching, or throwing in spots where it's so thick you can't afford for that point to pop out (or if you're using a bait that's already caught a fish or two). Generally speaking, in my experience, A hurts your hook up ratio a little, but it's nearly 100% whenever it's a decent sized fish that can inhale the entire bait.

[J Francho]

You can also:

 

C. skin hook the point on the side of the bait.

[Mike L]

1 hour ago, J Francho said:

You can also:

 

C. skin hook the point on the side of the bait.

Used to do that but got away from it 

The shape of the plastic comes more into play to do it correctly to maximize sets.  

 

 

Mike

[Steveo-1969]

B. for me because I'm not using very heavy powered rods or heavy line. I don't trust I can get the hook point through the plastic and through the fishes mouth past the barb consistently.  I am not fishing heavy cover though...

[Cgolf]

Honestly neither. While sometimes I get hung up and have to pull weeds of the hook it isn't too much of a bother. If it was really an issue I guess I would rig it so A would work.

[J Francho]

1 hour ago, cgolf said:

Honestly neither. While sometimes I get hung up and have to pull weeds of the hook it isn't too much of a bother. If it was really an issue I guess I would rig it so A would work.

Are you saying the hook point is exposed?  What's the point of using a weedless worm hook?

[Darren.]

Hm. I use both. If heavy weeds/cover, buried, typically.

If light/moderate grassy, texposed. Also depends on pound

test of line.

[Cgolf]

1 hour ago, J Francho said:

Are you saying the hook point is exposed?  What's the point of using a weedless worm hook?

Not like a jighead, but up tight to the body. With the exception of the gnarliest weeds, this doesn't give me many issues. Essentially the barb of the hook is indenting the plastic and the hookpoint rests on the plastic.

[JustJames]

A. for Elaztech stuffs and others if I need to. I use Roboworm Rebarb hook for this not flipping hook.

B. For other plastics

 

[DINK WHISPERER]

I've always done B since I can remember. I only started using A since trying the punching hooks. 

[long island basser]

23 minutes ago, Darren. said:

Hm. I use both. If heavy weeds/cover, buried, typically.

If light/moderate grassy, texposed. Also depends on pound

test of line.

Same here.

[J Francho]

16 minutes ago, cgolf said:

Not like a jighead, but up tight to the body. With the exception of the gnarliest weeds, this doesn't give me many issues. Essentially the barb of the hook is indenting the plastic and the hookpoint rests on the plastic.

 

OK, so "Texposed"

[WRB]

Texposed is the hook point and barb completely exposed, skin hooked is what is being defined as Texposed. All of the above to me is weedless hooking soft plastics. Texas rig is a worm hook with a sliding bullet weight that also been lost as a simple difination.

Tom

[J Francho]

What I'm getting at is that cgolf is doing B.  Actual Texposing is totally pointless (see what I did there?), and makes no sense to me at all.  That's what I asked cgolf to clarify.  If you're not going to bother putting the hook point back in the plastic, if even just slightly, then don't bother with a worm hook.

[Dorado]

1 hour ago, Darren. said:

Hm. I use both. If heavy weeds/cover, buried, typically.

If light/moderate grassy, texposed. Also depends on pound

test of line.

Perfectly stated. Same

[Cgolf]

17 minutes ago, J Francho said:

What I'm getting at is that cgolf is doing B.  Actual Texposing is totally pointless (see what I did there?), and makes no sense to me at all.  That's what I asked cgolf to clarify.  If you're not going to bother putting the hook point back in the plastic, if even just slightly, then don't bother with a worm hook.

 

Not pointless at all. The rig I explained has come through millfoil clean while a ball headed jig would have brought 10 pounds of weeds. I do use slider heads a lot and also use thicker bodied plastics, tubes, menaces, grubs, etc. It is rare that I use finesse worms. Maybe the bigger plastics help keep the weeds off? This has also worked well with gambler ugly otters too.

[Dorado]

Would method A be a better technique for rigging Zoom Horny Toads? What style hooks do you recommend?

[fishballer06]

13 minutes ago, Dorado said:

Would method A be a better technique for rigging Zoom Horny Toads? What style hooks do you recommend?

I tex-pose my Horny Toads and Rage Toads.