Flipping Texas Rig (Creature/Craw)

A compact creature or craw on a pegged 3/8-1/2 oz weight and a heavy hook, pitched and flipped to isolated shallow cover on heavy line.

Also known as: Flipping Texas Rig (Creature/Craw) · Flippin' rig · Creature bait Texas rig · Beaver rig · Craw rig · creature bait Texas rig · flippin rig

The most-fished bass rig in the world: one offset hook, one bullet weight, and every soft plastic ever made.

• Always an offset (Texas) hook — the point buried in the bait is what makes it weedless
• The weight decides everything: pegged for cover, sliding for open bottom, weightless for the fall
• Hook size follows bait length: 3/0 finesse for 3.5 in, 6/0-8/0 heavy for 7 in+
• Lost fish are a rigging problem first, a hookset problem second

1. What it is — A bulky, compact bait — creature, beaver-style or craw, 3-4.5 in (7.5-11.5 cm) — on a pegged 3/8-1/2 oz (10.5-14 g) tungsten bullet and a 3/0-4/0 heavy-wire offset…
2. When it wins — Shallow, cover-oriented bass that are not buried in mats: pre-spawn wood, dock posts, brush piles, riprap and boulders, flooded bushes, reed edges. Spring and fall for…
3. When it fails — Open, sparse water where a slimmer worm's subtler fall out-draws it, and ultra-clear pressured water that wants a finesse profile. It is also overkill on clean bottom.
4. Gear notes — Heavy fast casting rod, 7.5:1-8.1:1 reel to pick up slack on a short line, 17-20 lb fluoro around rock and wood, 40-50 lb braid around grass and reeds. Heavy-wire…