T is for Texas

[Mobasser]

Regardless if you use a plastic worm, craw, or any of the many styles of plastics that we have available. Regardless if you use tungsten, lead, beads, or ewg, straight, or offset hooks. Out of the thousands of fisherman here, how many would call the Texas rig the single, best, overall bass lure you can throw? I'll start off by saying a big YES! Let's here your opinions?

[JediAmoeba]

1 minute ago, Mobasser said:

Regardless if you use a plastic worm, craw, or any of the many styles of plastics that we have available. Regardless if you use tungsten, lead, beads, or ewg, straight, or offset hooks. Out of the thousands of fisherman here, how many would call the Texas rig the single, best, overall bass lure you can throw? I'll start off by saying a big YES! Let's here your opinions?

I throw a t-rig less than any single setup.  It catches fish but I find myself using different techniques - I throw wacky more often.  

[roadwarrior]

The big winners for me are a weightless Senko or Fat Ika.

T-rigged without a sinker?

 

[scaleface]

A lot of those other rigs are open water or light line tactics , thats not my style . The Texas rig begs to be thrown in the nastiest of  brush . I'll toy with some of the others  now and then but the Texas rig  gets used way more than the rest combined .

[Mike L]

13 minutes ago, scaleface said:

A lot of those other rigs are open water or light line tactics , thats not my style . The Texas rig begs to be thrown in the nastiest of  brush . I'll toy with some of the others  now and then but the Texas rig  gets used way more than the rest combined .

Ditto

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

[J Francho]

If by Texas Rig, you mean a bullet weight on the line above a hook, with a plastic bait rigged weedless, then yes.  Any rig that doesn't include those elements, is not a Texas Rig.  This rig was shown to me when I was around 12, and it opened a door to all sorts of new fishing - in the weeds - that previously I avoided.  Imagine that, fishing for bass where weeds were sparse?

[Mobasser]

Well, when I got up this morning to make coffee, and old song popped into my head. My grandpa used to sing it when he worked on his farm. Gimmee a T for Texas, Gimmee, a T for Tennessee. Gimme a T for Thelma, that gal done made a fool outa me. That's where I got the idea for T is for Texas. Thanks grandpa!

[OkobojiEagle]

My opinion... exposed hook point is always 1st choice if cover will allow.  I have never "Texas rigged", however, I do throw jigheads with offset hook shanks that can bury the hook point as a T-rig does ( Brewer head, Fin-tech Title Shot, as well as, weighted swimbait hooks).

 

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[Catt]

2 hours ago, Mobasser said:

Well, when I got up this morning to make coffee, and old song popped into my head. My grandpa used to sing it when he worked on his farm. Gimmee a T for Texas, Gimmee, a T for Tennessee. Gimme a T for Thelma, that gal done made a fool outa me. That's where I got the idea for T is for Texas. Thanks grandpa!

 

It was either Blue Yodel #1 by Jimmy Rodgers or T for Texas by Tompall Glaser off Wanted! The Outlaws album by Waylon Jennings.

[scaleface]

Who else at one time used them with 5'6" mh or hvy action pistol grip rods ? Reel up the slack and cross their eyes , Harry and Charlie style. 

[Mobasser]

1 minute ago, Catt said:

 

It was either Blue Yodel #1 by Jimmy Rodgers or T for Texas by Tompall Glaser off Wanted! The Outlaws album by Waylon Jennings.

Catt, I'm pretty sure my grandpa learned it from the Jimmy Rodgers version. It's a good old song too

[DitchPanda]

For me it's hard to say it's the absolute best. 5 years ago I would have no doubt said yes...but the last few years I've gotten heavy into jigs. I feel like jigs catch bigger average fish but the Texas rig gets bit more..at least for me. So I would say those two are 1 and 2 ...and they switch often. One thing I will add is both a jig and texas rig are the only 2 things I can catch them on ice out til ice up. Many times there's a hotter bait depending on time of year but they still produce.

[Tennessee Boy]

Yes,  I've caught more fish on a Texas Rig than anything else.  I also catch a lot of fish on a weightless soft plastic rigged weedless,  but as @J Francho correctly pointed out,  that ain't no Texas Rig. 

[Dens228]

For ME, emphasized ME,

Texas rig for numbers

Jig for size

[Mobasser]

14 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Who else at one time used them with 5'6" mh or hvy action pistol grip rods ? Reel up the slack and cross their eyes , Harry and Charlie style. 

I fished t rig like this a lot. 5'6 pistol grip rod, and round ABU reel, 14lb line. I'm sure it would still work now

[scaleface]

12 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

14lb line

Stren?

 

I   think the short rods were more sensitive .

[Catt]

Birth of the Texas Rig

 

Late 50s Creme moves to Tyler, Texas

 

Nick notices Texas anglers using the replacement worms threaded on a single hook, point buried to make it weedless, no weight. Nick starts putting a hook in the package!

 

The weight wasn't added until later when an angler on lake Tyler cut the brass wire off a bank casting weight & treaded on his line.

 

The hook point buried in the worm made it a Texas Rig not the weight!

 

[Mobasser]

2 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Stren?

 

I   think the short rods were more sensitive .

Yes, I used 14lb Stren mono. Sometimes I think the shorter rods may have been better too. You could set the hook really fast

3 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

Yes, I used 14lb Stren mono. Sometimes I think the shorter rods may have been better too. You could set the hook really fast

I've wondered the same thing too. Lots of guys want a 7 to 7'6 rod. It's more rod to move, and more line out also. With a shorter stick, usually one crank of the reel, and your ready to set the hook hard! I use a 6' 6 now. It's long enoupgh for me.

7 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

Yes, I used 14lb Stren mono. Sometimes I think the shorter rods may have been better too. You could set the hook really fast

I've wondered the same thing too. Lots of guys want a 7 to 7'6 rod. It's more rod to move, and more line out also. With a shorter stick, usually one crank of the reel, and your ready to set the hook hard! I use a 6' 6 now. It's long enoupgh for me.

I remember when most of the worm rods were not more than 6 feet. Then, they kept getting longer and longer. Maybe not always better though?

[Bird]

I believe T-rig would be the first inductee into the fishing HOF out voting the spinnerbait. Lol

 

[Log Catcher]

I am reliving my fishing time reading @Mobasser and @scaleface. I fished a lot with 5'6" rods, round ambassadeur 5000 reels, and 14# Stren line. Caught a lot of fish that way on Texas rigs, crankbaits and, spinnerbaits. They used to be all I used. I still have some 5'6" rods. It wouldn't bother me to put reels on them and use them again. Back to the original question I think the Texas rig is the best for catching fish and I use it every time I go.

[coachfozz]

t-rig got me hooked on bass fishing.  I always have one hooked up

[Jaderose]

I don't give a crap whether it is the right thing to call a weightless T-Rig a weightless T-rig but that is what I call it and between that and a one with a bullet weight, I throw them a LOT.  At least until Froggin season starts

[Big Swimbait]

6 hours ago, scaleface said:

Who else at one time used them with 5'6" mh or hvy action pistol grip rods ? Reel up the slack and cross their eyes , Harry and Charlie style. 

I still have my 6' All Star Pitchin' Rod. The pistol grip cork was shot so I just put Winn Grips on it. She's ready to go!

[scaleface]

2 hours ago, Jaderose said:

At least until Froggin season starts

Froggin season started last week in NEMO. Caught nine and missed at least twenty .

[spoonplugger1]

There is nothing more accurate than those old short rods, still have a few Lamiglas Certified Pro 5 1/2 ft. blanks in my blank rack, and get an order for one every now and then. Worms for number of fish, jigs for big fish when slack line presentations makes more sense.