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Hi all, I was just wondering if it's possible to texas rig a swimbait? And if so is it better weighted or no weight? Also pegged or no peg? Thanks

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Yes, weighted, pegged..at least that's how I've been swimming my worms. Can't see why it'd be different other than hook size.

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Yes— weighted would be my preference and I don’t peg mine. To be perfectly honest, I prefer a Texas rigged swimbait over the keel weighted swimbait hooks most times. I feel that Texas rigged swimbaits come through the grass much better and also give a smaller profile when needed. The only downside would be that sometimes a softer bodied swimbait such as a keitech seem to tear easier when Texas rigged.

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Most of the time when I use a swim bait it is on a Texas rig with a 1/8 oz. sinker pegged.

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See in the picture?  How to rig it that way is detailed in the video.

 

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I Texas rig a swimbait most of the time. The hook up ratio is not quite as good, but you get hung up much less.

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They put a human on a floating rock in 1969 from 238,000 miles away. 

The Pyramids were built without electricity.
 

 

Im gonna reach here and say putting a lead weight in front of a piece of plastic that loosely resembles a fish is possible!

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I'll fish a Little Dipper t-rigged with a glass bead on a 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG (red, for some reason I like fishing this on a red hook.). I slide a bobber stop up or down depending on what I'm casting into.

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I've done it a fair amount, and like it! quite weedless like any other texas rigged bait. DO IT!!!

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I might do it if I were gonna drag the swim bait along the bottom, but generally feel like you'll get better swimming action from a belly weighted hook or some kind of jig head. Absolutely no reason to not do it if you feel it will be effective though.. #1 thing to learn as a new angler is that you aren't locked into what Mike Iaconelli tells you what to do on his youtube channel. A lot of your very best fishing days will probably come from you making your own adjustments to your particular fish, and if for some reason your getting tons of bites on a texas rigged swimbait.. keep throwin it. 

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I got a stupid question. If you texas rig a swimbait, what's keeping it upright on the retrieve?

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On 7/6/2020 at 10:16 PM, georgeyew said:

I got a stupid question. If you texas rig a swimbait, what's keeping it upright on the retrieve?

The retrieve 

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