Ned Rigs Anonymous

[optimator]

This might sound like a fishing story but…. I had one morning at the pond where I caught my PB in 4 casts with a TRD I caught a bass, bluegill, crappie and a trout. It was pretty hilarious ?

[Darth-Baiter]

Funny.  I just boxed up all my Ned rig stuff and mailed it to my friend in MN. Heads baits. All of it.  
 

I kept two bags of green pumpkin Finesse TRD to Tex-rig if I get desperate.  I’m over it. 

[1984isNOW]

20 minutes ago, BrianMDTX said:

I’ve caught a grand total of one bass on a Ned. Gross weight about 1 lb. 
 

I've reeled in enough algae to fill the cargo hold of a laker hauling ore to Sault Sainte Marie. Neds and ponds mix like pit bulls and kittens. 

So what do you throw to avoid the algae?

 

I've got some strange jigheads I can swap hooks out on, little hood with little plastics on heavy heads... go get'em boys

20 minutes ago, BrianMDTX said:

I’ve caught a grand total of one bass on a Ned. Gross weight about 1 lb. 
 

I've reeled in enough algae to fill the cargo hold of a laker hauling ore to Sault Sainte Marie. Neds and ponds mix like pit bulls and kittens. 

So what do you throw to avoid the algae?

 

I've got some strange jigheads I can swap hooks out on, little hood with little plastics on heavy heads... go get'em boys

[gim]

12 minutes ago, Darth-Baiter said:

mailed it to my friend in MN

Where is your friend in MN located and is this your good fishing friend that bailed on you?

[BrianMDTX]

13 minutes ago, PUTitinYOURmouthFISH said:

So what do you throw to avoid the algae?

 

I've got some strange jigheads I can swap hooks out on, little hood with little plastics on heavy heads... go get'em boys

So what do you throw to avoid the algae?

 

I've got some strange jigheads I can swap hooks out on, little hood with little plastics on heavy heads... go get'em boys

On the bottom, mainly weightless Texas rigs and wacky rigs. A Texas rig with a 1/8 oz.bullet weight can work also. Anything heavier or less streamlined than that is an algae magnet. 
 

Weedless is not algaeless. 

[Darth-Baiter]

19 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Where is your friend in MN located and is this your good fishing friend that bailed on you?

Same guy.  He kills on a Ned. 

[Bass Rutten]

55 minutes ago, BrianMDTX said:

I’ve caught a grand total of one bass on a Ned. Gross weight about 1 lb. 
 

I've reeled in enough algae to fill the cargo hold of a laker hauling ore to Sault Sainte Marie. Neds and ponds mix like pit bulls and kittens. 

 

Sounds like you're too heavy on the jighead. Many who first ned go too heavy and think they have to "feel" the bait and keep contact with bottom when in fact mid-west finesse fishing is a "no feel" presentation that's mainly swimming and gliding with only occasional bottom contact, hence the 1/32 & 1/16 heads.

[LrgmouthShad]

Ah yes. The Ned rig is a fantastic gateway drug. When you’re ready for something more… exciting… boy, you wouldn’t believe the rod bending action that a shaky head possesses. You may never go back to your ned rigs.

[scaleface]

Being I use a lot of Yum Dingers , I have  a never ending supply of torn up ones for Neds. They catch fish but I lose an awful lot to snags.    Gizits seem to catch larger bass for me so I find myself going back and forth with them.

[Mobasser]

When the Ned rig first came out I bought some and tried them. I had one good early spring morning when I caught 11 fish on one bank.  Then the annual.weeds came in, and the Ned wasn't working good in the weeds. I went back to my small finesse plastic worms. I can fish them in and around most all cover.

[1984isNOW]

8 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

 I went back to my small finesse plastic worms. I can fish them in and around most all cover.

Like 1/4 oz or less bullet weight t-rig?

[gim]

1 hour ago, Mobasser said:

Then the annual.weeds came in, and the Ned wasn't working good in the weeds. I went back to my small finesse plastic worms. I can fish them in and around most all cover.

Same problem here too.  Once the weeds start to come in relatively thick (like now), it gets hung up way too much.  Better off tex rigging at this point.

 

I've definitely done better on smallmouth because of the lack of weeds to get hung up on.

[Bluebasser86]

8 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Ah yes. The Ned rig is a fantastic gateway drug. When you’re ready for something more… exciting… boy, you wouldn’t believe the rod bending action that a shaky head possesses. You may never go back to your ned rigs.

I almost never fish a shakyhead anymore because a Ned catches more and bigger fish for me ?

 

I've caught a bunch of fish over 5, up to nearly 7lbs on a Ned, and won quite a few tournament dollars with them. I really appreciate the "They only catch little fish", crowd ?

[LrgmouthShad]

35 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I almost never fish a shakyhead anymore because a Ned catches more and bigger fish for me ?

 

I've caught a bunch of fish over 5, up to nearly 7lbs on a Ned, and won quite a few tournament dollars with them. I really appreciate the "They only catch little fish", crowd ?

Could be a regional thing. Shaky head in NC is a big fish bait, to my knowledge. I can’t speak for TX yet

[TnRiver46]

40 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I almost never fish a shakyhead anymore because a Ned catches more and bigger fish for me ?

 

I've caught a bunch of fish over 5, up to nearly 7lbs on a Ned, and won quite a few tournament dollars with them. I really appreciate the "They only catch little fish", crowd ?

I’ve seen you post some 6+ on shakey in sub freezing temps. Maybe even some 7s, can’t fool me 

[Bluebasser86]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’ve seen you post some 6+ on shakey in sub freezing temps. Maybe even some 7s, can’t fool me 

2, I caught one a little over 7 on shakyhead a few years ago in January and one a couple years before that in January. Zebra mussels and bottom algae really make fishing a shakyhead here problematic.  It just doesn't touch the numbers or average size I catch on a Ned rig even the places I can use it.

[galyonj]

This was fun. Can we fight about hook size on the jig heads for this presentation next?

[Bass Rutten]

5 minutes ago, galyonj said:

This was fun. Can we fight about hook size on the jig heads for this presentation next?

I'm in. Are groin kicks allowed?

[1984isNOW]

8 minutes ago, galyonj said:

This was fun. Can we fight about hook size on the jig heads for this presentation next?

Ned rig has to have 1/16 oz or less with a 6/o hook at least. Here let me show you my preferred hook size...

 

2 minutes ago, Bass Rutten said:

I'm in. Are groin kicks allowed?

No... But sack wacks are ?‍?

[optimator]

35 minutes ago, PUTitinYOURmouthFISH said:

Ned rig has to have 1/16 oz or less with a 6/o hook at least. Here let me show you my preferred hook size...

 

No... But sack wacks are ?‍?

What’s the capital of Thailand?

[1984isNOW]

TTTHHHIISS GGGUUYYYY

[Munkin]

They are dink magnets for LM but work well for pressured river SM. I had such good luck on the little beaver one I had a bunch of similar ones made. Don't have to worry about losing any now as there are a lot of spares.

 

Allen 

[MickD]

On 6/1/2023 at 5:21 PM, Bass Rutten said:

I mean Ned's are great if you want to catch 1 lb bass, panfish, Perch, the occasional Trout or a rock bass.

Just took a 5.25 smallie today on a Canada Craw ned.  The contention that neds just take small fish is false.  Neds take all fish, and most are small .  But they also take big ones. 

[Bass Rutten]

4 minutes ago, MickD said:

Just took a 5.25 smallie today on a Canada Craw ned.  The contention that neds just take small fish is false.  Neds take all fish, and most are small .  But they also take big ones. 

I'm in complete agreement! That was actually JediAmoebas quote that I quoted in that comment.

[1984isNOW]

On 6/2/2023 at 4:01 PM, Bass Rutten said:

I'm in complete agreement! That was actually JediAmoebas quote that I quoted in that comment.

I'm quoting you quoting a quote that  somebody quoted you quoting and I quote, "the."

 

But yeah that Canada craw is no joke @mickd - don't know why you won't populate

 

I find myself using actual trds less and less and using more creature looking things.