Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

Ok what do you prefer

Texas rig worm ?

Or Carolina rig worm ?

Or some other way to fish plastic worms ?

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

texas because it is weedless :)

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

I fish texas rig because it weedless:)you can peg you weight so that you can fish brush

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

Texas in shallow water and Carolina in the deep water.

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

I fish them both. I've caught my two biggest bass on carolina, both in the 10 pound range.

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

they both have there place, the things i like about the c-rig is you can cover alot of water quickly and you can learn alot about the bottom composition, but its hard to flip a c-rig;)

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

I too like texas in shallow and c rig in deep, flordia rig is my fav

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what is a florida rig can some one give a description or pic thanks for the help.

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

A Florida Rig is when they hook it so the worm spins. Kinda off-set. Its easy to fish because all you need to do is reel slowly.

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

C-Rigs are great for covering lots of non snaggy bottoms fast to learn compositions. they also position the baits in a good manner, they're up off the bottom. Never use flourocarbon because it sinks. I prefer a texas rig most of the time. peg them with bobbers stops because toothpicks hurt your line and other stuff doesnt let the sinker move up on hookset whihc makes it easier for the fish to throw the hook. The flordia rig is basically a bullet sinker with a corkscrew built into the bottom and you screw it into the worm, so you dont have to peg it. i dont think it imparts any spin on the worm at all.

slayer

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Actually the Florida Rig is where you get a hook and don't hook it in straight and offset it so it spins the plastic worm.

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

No you're wrong. I just looked it up to make sure i knew what i was talking about. Florida Rigging is using a sinker with a corkscrew on it.

When fishing in heavy grass such as you find throughout the southern U.S., one of the big problems encountered when using a plastic worm is keeping the worm in place on the hook. To solve this problem you may use what is called a Florida Rig sinker. It is quite simply a worm bullet- type sinker that has a small spring attached to the back. When rigging the worm on the hook you just screw the spring into the plastic worm's head after putting it on the hook in the normal manner. This will end the constant chore of resetting the worm to the correct position.

from bassnedge.com

I knew i was right, i heard Larry Nixon talking about it a week ago. told ya so

slayer

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

ok i don't want to get any one mad i'm trying to end the argueing ok first slayer come on the guy lives in florida and you live up in hick ville wisconsin (well thats what i call were i live) and the internet does not know every thing and the pros are not always right but there is more than likely more than one way to do it so you two should stop and it is over :) oh ya slayer check your pm k :D

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i wish there was a big ole eye rolling smiley mo bob thinger..[:-] thatll work i guess..Either way, i think even though i may be from "hick ville" i know what im talking about. Larry nixon discussed the the Florida rig at Bassmater university. i wasn't 5 FEET from him. standing there in the flesh, the worm king of bass fishing said florida rigging is basicaly just a sinker with a corkscrew so you dont have to peg it. if anyone knows what florida rigging is, its Larry Nixon. i may live in "hick ville", but i do know what im talking about when it comes to bass fishing. newbies...[&:]

slayer

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

ok again don't get mad anybody ok then forget larry nixon he is just some washed up old pro that endorses stuff and if the guy is from florida he uses it his way because it works and calls it a florida rig and you use what the pro says and the internet there just two different ways you both have one thats it k;)

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

Aight. This is when we insert the foot in the mouth. you most seriously just dissed probably one of the top 10 greatest bass fisherman of all time. old pro? true, he's been on the circuit for quite a while. Washed up? you obviously don't follow pro bass fishing. he finished 5th at the Harris Chain of Lakes in Florida 3 weeks ago. 5th is in the money. better than mike iaconelli did, or kevin vandam, or any of the top guys. endorses stuff? i bet you can't name a single product he endorses. he's probably one of the most down to earth, humble, as well as one of the best bassers that has ever walked on this earth. the king of worm fishing. Im from wisconsin, does that mean i know everything with the name wisconsin? should i be able to know where Wisconsin Street is at in Washington, DC??? Florida rigging is a bullet sinker with a corkscrew which is then screwed into a plastic worm to peg the sinker to the weight, which is beneficial occaisionally in heavy cover, althoughmost pros agree that bobber stops work the best.

please, have some knowledge of what you're talking about before you type. honestly, if you dont know what you're talking about, refrain from posting. also, just straight up don't diss my boy Larry Nixon. he's just one of those guys that you don't diss. i wasnt angry, i was just stating the truth, but when you drag larry nixon through the mud, im sorry, its gonna get me mad.

What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

stupid newbies..

slayer

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

The Florida Rig was discussed in The FLORIDA Sportsman magazine...

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Well, then Florida sportsman is wrong. i'd like to see the article, post it on here. I just looked up "Florida Rigging for bass" on google. the first 10 sites that talked about Florida Rigging i clicked on. Guess what i found? 10 of 10 sites agree that florida rigging is using a sinker with a corkscrew to peg the weight to the worm so it doesnt get snagged up in thick cover. im 100% sure im right. lets see the article if you still think youre right.

some people..

slayer

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

dang i think it is the other way around you trashing everybody is getting old, and i will say it again old and washed up hasbeen you realy need to calm down and keep your coments to your self every one has their own opinion and this is mine so you did not need to get all wacko on me people fish the rig different ways thats it ok (i never should have asked what a florida rig is) :) (oh man i bet this will get you fired up) i'm sorry but it is funny watching you go nuts over some thing little and calling people newbies some of the people righting here not me but some others have been fishing before you were born man oh ya i got some stuff your "boy" old larry endorses well his 3 dvds on fishing and Premier Pro-Glo Model spinner bait and the is probably more and before i was just kidding but since you went nuts i think i might be a little serious man you got crazy and on a side note Takahiro Omori can out fish him anyday and larry would be crying saying oh i suck i'm so old i can't take it oh your such a better fisherman please tell me how you do it (man this is funny because you will get realy mad and i will laugh):):D;)[8D]

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

Joined: 11/30/2004:Newbie

the 4 1/2 years i've been around here have shown me that i dont have to keep all my comments to myself. i dont even want to get into it about my boy larry nixon.

LOL, i was laughing really hard about the Takahiro comment. mike auten, mike iaconelli, and davy hite were cracking jokes about him left and right in Chicago. your comments made me remember it. "I caught a 5 pounda!!!":D:D:D

slayer

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

here are the weights that slayer is talking about there made by gambler/bang lure company (in florida), however i'm still not sure thats what a florida rig is, even though thats what the add says, the same as some people calling(ed) the carolina rig "the do nothing rig" and one of the first people to fish it was jack chancellor(sp) and thats what he called it (the do nothing rig), different geographic regions will call different tecniqhes different things, if i was in the boat with larry nixon i wouldn't tell him it wasn't a florida rig. as far as some of those seasoned veterans go, you can't take anything away from most of those guys, nixon, clunn, brauer, and so many others have earned thier respect, btw i have fished with and against some of the top pro's in the country, and it dosen't take long being around them to understand why they are where their at, and there are some real dum basses out on the tour also,


http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpageGAMBTT-GFRW.html


btw here is an article about jack chancellor and what i was talking about, good fishin
http://clickit.go2net.com/search?pos=4&ppos=0&plnks=0&uplnks=10&cat=web&cid= 239171&site=srch&area=srch.noncomm.google&shape=te xtlink&cp=info.dogpl&cluster-click=0&pd=0&coll=1&query='do+nothing+rig'&rawto=h ttp://www.ultimatebass.com/content/view/112/184/

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Ok I am going to post the important parts of the article because it is too long to type out completely. This is the March 2005 issue of Florida Sportsman. This is the Sportsman's Seminars: Bass Fishing section. Name of the article is The Florida Worm Rig.


The Florida worm rig is one that utilizes parts of all of the above. And it goes by different names. Regardless of the name, it adds action to a soft plastic offering that can make it resemble an eel, a snake or just injured baitfish.

The secret to this rig is to slide the worm onto the hook so that you have a hump or twist in the body that will make the worm spin and rotate slighly in the water.

I believe that it's two different rigs with the same names.

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

Texas Rig

RE: Carolina Or Texas Rig Worms
 

my favorite is the texas rig because you can fish just a bout any where i have caught most of the fish at my pond on the texas rig
i use texas and a watermelon seed with red speckels in it