How To Rig A Plastic Worm Texas Style
Step 1
Slip a Step 2
Tie on an Step 3
Insert about 1/4 of an inch of the point of the hook straight into the top of the Step 4
Turn the hook point and exit the worm at the side of the head. Step 5
Slide the worm up the hook toward the eye, twisting it around the hook wire as you slide it, so that the point of the hook will be facing the worm. Step 6
The eye of the hook should be just at the top of the worm. The offset should hold the main wire of the hook outside the worm so the worm can hang straight down toward the point. Step 7
Allow the worm to hang straight down and put your finger and thumb on the worm right at the point that the bend of the hook reaches. Step 8
Keeping your thumb and finger on that spot, bend the worm so that you can insert the point of the hook into the worm at a right angle. Make sure you keep the worm straight so the hook is going back into the same side of the worm that it came out of up top. Step 9
Push the point all the way through the worm. When you are done doing this, the worm should make a straight line between the point and the eye of the hook. Step 10
Now push up on the worm just a little so you can slip the point of the hook just under the surface of the plastic. Step 11
Once the point is hidden beneath the surface, the Texas Rig is called "weedless" or "skin-hooked". Rigged like this, the worm will slip through weeds without getting snagged, but it is still easy to set the hook.
The completed rig should look like this
Video Instruction: The Texas Rig
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- texasflats texasflats Aug 13, 2008 @ 9:38 am
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