Plastic Rigs

[FishinBill]

How does everyone typically rig their plastics?

This year my go to rig has been a red hook with a 1/8th bullet weight usually pegged close to the hook. I have tried using a glass and brass but then not pegging it. haven't really done anything with that.

Just wanting to get more ideas. do many of you use brass and glass texas style and let it slide?

[Deitz Dittrich]

fishinbill- I really try and let the conditions(both lake, and weather) decide for me how to best fish a spot. This can be any number of ways to rig, jig, drag a plastic.

Expieriment, find what works best for you in situations.

on a side note.. I do a lot of brass and glass and am quite successfull with it. I do make one slight modification to it. I big headdedly call it a "Deitz Rig".. however, its just a typical brass and glass rig(however, I usually use tungston) and I add a much smaller glass bead in front of the sinker and also add a bobber stop about 1-2 inches up the line from the lure. This way I still have a sliding sinker, yet only slides as much as 2 inches from the plastic allowing the sinker and glass to come in contact to make the noise.

[cheektowaga]

I was out the past two days on a northern MN lake, my buddy and I tried two separate presentations, I wacky rigged a Senko imitation (YUM) he used a drop shot rig with the same types of worms, but rigged them through the tip with the hook buried. Results were similar but the wacky won out. I caught 51 Bass (large and small mouth) with 9 going over 18 inches. He caught 37 bass with 7 over 18 inches, but he also caught the two biggest 21.5" and 21.75".

Both had a time and place when they were far out producing the other, but over the course of 2 days finished pretty close.

I haven't done much in the line of Carolina rigging, usually stick with my go to rigs.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Very interesting Cheek...

I myself dont see many situations where a dropshot and a wacky rig would be used in similar situations at the same time.. very interesting and thank you for sharing!

I usually ask myself, what would be the best presentation to get my lure that I think they will hit to them the quickest.

[senkoskipper]

u guys ever try just putting the hook further down on the worm to make it kind of curve out and it can still be weedless. That curve gives it a pretty good action.

[Ole the Guide]

Cheek,

Okay I've got to ask:

What colors brought the best results? I assume you must have let the wacky rig fall weightless. Then the next question would be how deep were you fishing? The reason I'm asking is because I look at drop-shotting as a deeper presentation than wacky rig. So if you were both fishing the same area it would take a wacky rig longer to get to the bottom. Right? This intrigues me.

Thanks for the results on your experiment!

Ole

[FishinBill]

So dietz, instead of putting the bead behind the weight you put it up the line from it? that's different. never tried that, I have always put the bead between the hook and the weight. I will have to try that.

[Deitz Dittrich]

not exactly Bill.. I have a very small glass bead in front of the sinker(so that the slip bobber knot does not slip threw the sinker) and a larger glass(8mm) glass bead behind the sinker. So think of it as a glass bead and sinker sandwich...2 beads, 1 sinker.. 1 plastic! and a bobber stop... The Deitz Rig.

[cheektowaga]

I agree with you Deitz, they are diffent presentations for diffent situations. The lake we fished is quite small (135 acres) and there is a definite weededge dropoff all the way around it. We had two seperate techniques because we were covering areas quickly. All areas had spots we were casting to shallows around fallen trees and docks and small patches of lillies where the wacky did much better, all areas were also adjacent to drop offs where the drop shot worked much better (10-14 feet). Part of it too was that my buddy was working the drop shot rig for the first time and wanted to practice it a lot. He too would cast shallow, let the wieght hit the bottom then just dance the worm around. Drop shots aren't the best for shallow water, but they do work. With the wacky rig I was not casting to the deeper waters much at all.

OLE

We had mixed colors because we had 1/2 bags of different colors. Did real well with 6" green, 5" green, 5" red flake, 5" black with blue flake and finally 4" black and white. I think it had more to do with weather and timing of the lake than color. Those big sausage 6 inchers worked real well on the larger fish, until we ran out!

[Ole the Guide]

Cheeks,

Thanks for the reply!!

Ole