Texas Rig · Hooks and jigheads · Canada

Texas Rig — Choose hook shape, wire gauge and head weight for this presentation. Match the exact hook size to the bait; a product series can contain several incompatible sizes.

Rig guide · Texas Rig

• Gamakatsu Offset Shank Worm EWG — anglingsports.ca 'bait-hooks' collection, best-selling sort #4; kept only ewg-fine hooks from that list; standard wire (Gamakatsu sells the Superline EWG as the heavy version)
• Gamakatsu Heavy Cover Worm — anglingsports.ca 'straight-shank flipping hooks' collection, best-selling sort #1
• Gamakatsu G-Finesse Hybrid Worm Hook — fishingworld.ca 'bass-hooks' collection, best-selling sort #2; also anglingsports.ca 'bait-hooks' #29; round bend with a gap clearly wider than a narrow worm hook but short of an EWG belly (a worm/EWG hybrid); Tournament Grade Wire = fine wire; unweighted, no keeper Gap: wide gap; wire: fine; weighted: no; keeper: offset step only.
• Gamakatsu Deep Throat Wide Gap — anglingsports.ca 'bait-hooks' collection, best-selling sort #101 (single store, position 101); forged heavy-wire offset hook with a locking Z-bend and a deep, wide throat for soft-plastic frogs and bulky baits, 3/0-5/0; Gamakatsu sells it as a Wide Gap, separate from its EWG lines. Gap: wide (deep throat); wire: heavy; weighted: no; keeper: none.
• VMC Worm Hook (black nickel) — anglingsports.ca 'bait-hooks' collection, best-selling sort #50; kept only offset-worm-fine hooks from that list; VMC rates it for light-to-medium lines, i.e. standard wire; offset round bend
• Gamakatsu Offset Worm EWG Nano Alpha — anglingsports.ca 'bait-hooks' collection, best-selling sort #46; kept only ewg-fine hooks from that list; standard-wire EWG with Nano Alpha coating
• BKK ArmorPoint Heavy Cover Flipping — anglingsports.ca 'straight-shank flipping hooks' collection, best-selling sort #2; also #3 on fishingworld.ca bass hooks
• Gamakatsu Offset Shank Worm Hook Round Bend — anglingsports.ca 'bait-hooks' collection, best-selling sort #15; re-filed from offset-worm-fine: the round bend gives a medium/wide gap (Gamakatsu: 'round bend for a larger bite area'), wider than the Z-bend Offset Shank Worm Hook; standard (fine) wire; unweighted, no keeper Gap: wide gap; wire: fine; weighted: no; keeper: offset step only.
• 6th Sense Stout Wide Gap — anglingsports.ca 'bait-hooks' collection, best-selling sort #165 (single store, position 165; also in the store's 'ewg-hook' and 'extra-wide-gap-hooks' collections); forged heavy-wire wide-gap worm hook with a dual-angle point, 3/0-5/0, 5 per pack; filed the same way as the US list. Gap: wide; wire: heavy; weighted: no; keeper: none.
• Gamakatsu Offset Shank Worm Hook — anglingsports.ca 'bait-hooks' collection, best-selling sort #60; kept only offset-worm-fine hooks from that list; standard wire, narrow-gap offset shank