Rigging it?

[Wurming67]

On soft plastics does anyone bury the hook anymore or is everyone skin hooking it?

[SDoolittle]

Skin hook with EWG hook. Bury it with anything else. 

[scaleface]

I  bury it most of the time .

[CroakHunter]

Ewg gets texposed. Straight shank gets hurried.

[papajoe222]

What CroakHunter said, although I have no idea what a Croak is.

[Gundog]

Skin hooked unless its a flipping style hook. Those get buried mainly because of the hook set being stronger. 

[CroakHunter]

11 minutes ago, papajoe222 said:

What CroakHunter said, although I have no idea what a Croak is.

Lol my last name. 

[Bluebasser86]

3 hours ago, CroakHunter said:

Ewg gets texposed. Straight shank gets buried.

This is the same as what I do. 

[Mike L]

I texpose everything, It's almost mandatory down here. 

 

The only time I don't is when useing Trokar hooks. 

 

 

 

 

Mike

[Catt]

I use straight shank round bend hooks 95% of time.

 

I only use EWGs on plastics as thick as a Senko or Flukes & solid body Frogs.

[mattkenzer]

1 hour ago, Catt said:

I use straight shank round bend hooks 95% of time.

 

I only use EWGs on plastics as thick as a Senko or Flukes & solid body Frogs.

Similar to Catt .... but I use both Straight Shank and Offset Worm Hooks .... buried in the plastic.

My EWG usage is minimal.

[Brad in Texas]

And, for leaving the hook point buried, threading the hook through the nose of a worm/plastic on an angle, not straight down, for many of the non-EWG hooks . . . makes sense. Just lining the hook you are using up against the profile of the worm or plastic before hand, a dry run, gives one the proper angle to come through for T-Rigging.

 

I think this sets the rigging up for the absolute best chances of setting the hook and having it penetrate the mouth of a fish.

 

*** For deeply ribbed plastic worms, where there isn't much meat in the middle? There is a technique I think most call Rattlesnake rigging where you run the hook through the nose of the bait but then come up and through a few of the rib folds off to the left or right side.

 

Brad

[Wurming67]

I noticed by using a ewg hook and skin hooking my baits I don't miss many fish.

[lo n slo]

standard offset, buried