Photo by Derek Horner The standard Texas rig consists of a bullet weight and an EWG hook with a soft plastic rigged onto the hook to make it weedless. If you’re fishing in thicker grass, sometimes it ...

Q: What is the best bait for bass with a Texas rig? The classic bait is a soft-plastic worm, but these days folks are Texas-rigging all sorts of soft-plastics from stickbaits and finesse worms to ...

The Lizard is an excellent bait for Texas rigs, Carolina rigs, shakyheads, and more. These lures are especially effective on bass around the spawn. Picking out the best soft plastic baits for bass ...

Step 4: Thread on your soft plastic of choice. The free rig fills the gap of a slow-falling, almost-vertical presentation where the bait is separated from the weight. A Texas rig typically doesn’t ...

Texas rig tube jigs or pit boss in junebug or black ... Swimming small hand tied jigs or small soft plastics can fool some of those picky fish. Numbers of fish have not been great but fishing ...

Isolated patches of grass can be fished with a Texas rigged soft plastic, Tokyo rig, or a hollow body frog. Chatterbaits, soft jerkbaits, and spinnerbaits are good around cover that are near ...

Bass are slow in deeper water on a variety of soft plastics. Next week the bite ... and spinner baits in 3-5 feet of water, or Texas rigs and shaky heads around wood or docks in 4-8 feet.