I'm confused!

[Black Bass]

I keep seeing that list members are T-rigging worms and creatures unweighted. I thought a T-rig was with a weight pegged in front of, or screwed into the plastic. When you use the term unweighted T-rig does that simply mean you just leave the weight off and rig the worm/creatue with an offset hook? :-/

[Marty]

I don't know the official definition of Texas rigging, but I think of it as a soft plastic bait rigged with the hook buried in the plastic, with or without weight added. The key is the buried hook which gives it weedlessness, not weights.

[Gatorbassman]

The original term "Texas-Rig" was a weedless hook with a weight in front of it. But as time went by people started calling the way the worm is hooked T-Rigging with or without the weight. I guess this was because nobody could come up with a snazzy name for it.  : When I first started bass fishing this was very confusing to me to. I still call the way it's hooked "weedless" most of the time.

[NewScreenNameAdvised]

Texas rigged is hooking a worm up with a hook and bullet weight in front.  As salt injected worms have become more popular (i.e. Senko), people have started to throw them the same way , without the sinker.  the salt in the lure will cause it to sink wihtout weight.  Also, jerkbaits are most often hooked up this way.

[Black Bass]

Isn't the plastic rigged on the hook the same on both the T-rig and Carolina Rig to make them weedless? If so, than the T-rig would not mean weedless would it?

[Bassn Blvd]

T-rigged= Worm weight sits on top of worm, pegged or not.

C-rigged= weight is suspended above the worm by a swivel. Usually a 2-3 foot leader.

Having the hook exposed has nothing to do with it being T-rigged or C-rigged. In fact, or should I say IMO, you should have the point of the hook barely coming through the worm on T-rig or C-rig. You don't want the hook point fully exposed. If you rig your worm the same way as, for example a fluke, then you want to run the point back into the worm, just under the "skin."

Fishing a worm weightless is neither T-rig or C-rig.  It is simply called "weightless."

[Gatorbassman]

[Catt]

Birth of the Texas Rig

Late 1940's Nick & Cosma Crème of Akron Ohio produce the first molded soft plastic worm, 1949 would be the official birth year of the now famous Crème worm.

Late 1950's Nick Crème moves his company to Tyler, Texas due in part to the huge number of new reservoirs being built.

1964 catalog was the first to mention the Texas Rig by Crème when Nick Crème started adding a slip sinker with his worms and instructions on how to fish this weed less bait.

The setup was naturally called The Texas Rig because it was invented in Texas.  

[.ghoti.]

I hate to ask where the wacky rig was invented.

Or the Mojo rig.

Or the sweet beaver. ;D ;D ;D

[thatoneguy]

mojo rig?

sweet beaver?

:-? :-? :-? :-?

[Catt]

Wacky Rig was invented by a guide on Toledo Bend for his customers who could not feel the bite on a Texas Rig or Carolina Rig; with the Wacky Rig the bass would almost always hook themselves. It has since evolved into many different variations as did all plastic rigs.

The Carolina Rig was actually invented in the saltwater arena many years ago by whom I do not know.

The Mojo Rig was invent some where out west either Arizona, California, or on Lake Mead.

The sweet beaver is a type of plastic lure sold under Reaction Innovations but its original designer eludes at this time.

Sweet Beaver