How do you texas rig?

[J Francho]

29 minutes ago, cgolf said:

 

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.

I know what your doing, and it is probably pretty weedless.  After a couple fish, sometime my bait is like that.  I'm talking the true Texposed that Tom was referring to as being pointless.

 

This is the Texposer Hook.  Dumb, and weedy.  I know, I tried it!

[thinkingredneck]

"A" for straight shank hooks

"B" for offset hooks

[Dorado]

25 minutes ago, fishballer06 said:

I tex-pose my Horny Toads and Rage Toads. 

Thanks. What size and style hooks do you use? I reached for a white one the other night and didn't know if a 5/0 EWG or 4/0 Weighted Belly Hook would be suite it. Never caught a bass with a toad before so I was lost.

[fishballer06]

I've seen that it depends on the hook company honestly. You need a shank that doesn't go past the end of the body, but a deep enough throat that the hook point gets exposed so it can hook up with a bite. I own these style hooks in everything from a 1/0 up to a 7/0, and I've found that generally a 3/0 to a 5/0 is the sweet spot. 

 

 

 

The Rage website has this helpful photograph for rigging their Rage Toad.

 

[Dorado]

@fishballer06 Great post thanks. Didn't want to hijack your thread, but I learned something today. 

[lo n slo]

at the risk of being a contrarian, i use A. my t rigs are usually worms and lizards fished in brush, rocks, or around docks.

[Catt]

"A" 90% of the time because I use straight shanked hooks more than EWG.

 

EWG gets textposed 

[scaleface]

2 hours ago, Catt said:

"A" 90% of the time because I use straight shanked hooks more than EWG.

 

EWG gets textposed 

This , it depends on what hook i'm using . Hold the hookup to the lure and see how it lies . 

[d-camarena]

On topwater i tex pose. 

Anything else i leave the hook in the middle of the bait. I have never had hookset problems. 

[TnRiver46]

A

[contium]

20 hours ago, thinkingredneck said:

"A" for straight shank hooks

"B" for offset hooks

This.