Weightless Texas Rig: What it is
A Texas rig with the weight left off: a 4-5 in (10-13 cm) salted stick bait or a soft jerkbait (fluke) Tex-posed on a 3/0-4/0 offset hook, fished on 12-15 lb fluorocarbon. The bait sinks slowly and level on its own salt weight, shimmying as it goes; twitched, a fluke darts side to side like a fleeing shiner. It is weedless, so it goes over grass, into laydowns and under docks where an open-hook wacky rig would hang.
Weightless Texas Rig
No weight at all — a stick bait or soft jerkbait Tex-posed on a wide-gap hook, falling and darting on its own weight through the top 1.5 m (5 ft) of the water column.
- What it is
- When it wins
- When it fails
- Gear notes