Draggin a worm

[Shad_Master]

Just some advice (perhaps) to newbies - we often use the term "dragging a worm" when talking about fishing with soft plastics - but that's not really the way to fish 'em most of the time.

Last weekend, I was fishing a club tournament and my back seater was having a difficult time getting bit in the areas where I was catching fish.  With about 1.5 hours to go, I had my limit and told him to get up front and run the boat - it was then that I noticed he was literally dragging his worm through a grass edge and comming up with a bucket full of weeds on each cast.  We were both fishing worms t-rigged with 1/4 oz weights, but mine was comming back clean.  I tried to explain to him that you had to work it through the grass with short tugs on the rod, but he never quite got the message.

If you are not doing this, learn to hop the lure through the grass and you will have much better results.

[Catt]

When I feel my worm is getting a bit tangled in grass I simply apply pressure, then release, apply a tad more pressure, then release; if this doesn't work I apply pressure while shaking my rod tip. Once my worm breaks free I pause for a good 15-20 seconds cause before I can count to 20 I done got bit!

[brushhoggin]

thanks for the heads up.

[fishfordollars]

You can also go to a lighter weight. It will keep you from burying up so bad and probably more important it will make you slow down your presentation.

[timothy_spain]

If you have grass on your t-rigged worm, most of the time a quick hard jerk of the rod will clean it right off.

[WRB]

You can drag a Carolina rig.

WRB

[Shad_Master]

You can drag a Carolina rig.

WRB

That's exactly the point - that way the grass is up away from the lure and you can still attract a strike.

[Whets Lines]

Thanks Shad,

I don't use t-rigs very often. Your kind of post gives me some direction and confidence in using it. Thanks for sharing.

Whets

8-)

[WRB]

You can drag a Carolina rig.

WRB

That's exactly the point - that way the grass is up away from the lure and you can still attract a strike.

You can also drop shot with the hook set at the depth of the grass tops.

For me the Texas rig is better suited not to be dragged, it seems to work better when it is swimming to the bottom, then hopped and stopped. In grass (weeds) the Florida rig (T-rig with a pegged sinker) works good. Just give the bass chance to decide how they want their worms and you may catch more.

Good advice not to get any lure covered with grass or moss, kills the action.

WRB