Please explain why you would use a skirted bass jig verse a Texas rigged plastic

Had very good luck with using bass swimming jigs with a skirt and craw/plastic.
From advice on here was told to throw it to the same places you would use a spinnerbait.
It is fast becoming one of my favorite methods.
Ok Have not used the Texas rig much at all always felt like I lost too many because the hook was buried in the worm.
Getting a few more bait casters set up with different techniques.
To me the T rig is the same thing as the skirted jig please explain the differences and where you would use a T rig verse a bass jig.
Is it a good fall choice?

Thanks just trying to think outside the box have not heard many doing the T rig or maybe the best kept secret?

I don’t remember who on here but they had a great video and peeked my interest again.

It was Mahtofire14 on here with video.

I’m not a jig expert, but I fish the jig more along weedlines and rock and Trigs more in heavy cover and shallow structure (shoreline/docks).

It also depends on time of year. During the cooldown and fall into winter I like football jigs (even though I suck with them) because bass are willing to eat a bigger presentation and generally get larger fish than a texas rig in my opinion. You can make a jig look like a crawfish, baitfish or bluegill/perch. Very versatile.

I seem to get more bites on Trigs but better quality with the jig. If you are losing fish on the Trig just make sure to set the hook hard. It’s a big hook and you also have to get it through the plastic and into the fish. Don’t be afraid to go Bassmaster hookset on it.

Biggest difference for me between a swim jig and Texas-rig is speed. Swim jig in open water and light cover – moving fast enough to get a reaction bite.

Texas-rig is slow and slower – in and around cover… almost like a jig worm without as much ripping in/out of weeds. Best advice I ever heard on how to present:

“When it comes to a Texas Rig, you really can’t fish it wrong as long as you fish it slow. Including a few sublte hops, drags and pauses can’t hurt.

Try to work it back “without” trying to draw attention to the bait. A bass’s food rarely wants to get eaten, yet it does.  

Sneak it back. It’s her world, she knows its there.”

I like Tx rig. My son is a jigger. Fishing around the weed line or in the weeds, the Tx rig does snag up as much as the jig it seems. In deeper water you get bit on the initial drop sometimes. When you give up on the cast and reel in fast, the pike like to bite em off.

Both have a time and place. To me the T-rig excels in the summer and early fall. I tend to mostly fish it on deeper weedlines and just inside the weedline. I tend to mostly fish the Swim Jig in the spring and again in the fall when the fish tend to be in shallower water. I almost never fish it in summer months. In the late summer and early fall don’t be afraid to fish a LARGE worm texas rigged. I often do real well on 10″ power worms during that time of the year. The Texas rig will normally come thru much heavier cover than a swim Jig will. The Texas Rig and the standard Jig and Pig style of jig often fish a lot more alike. It just seems like the fish sometimes Prefer one over the other. If they are mainly feeding on crayfish I find the Jig gets bit better. If its mainly on other baitfish then the Texas rig does.

Oddly enough, I had my best hour of bass fishing in a long time last night used. T rig crazy legs chigger craw black/purple. Casting by a shallow, rocky reef ina narrows area. My wife called, put her on speaker phone, and caught 4 during the conversation. Caught a few more after I stopped listening.

I really like those chigger craws in 4 inch black/blue my go to as well for on a jig or trailer or I have had luck as well on a spinnerbait.

Year in/out probably had best luck T-rigging with a Chigger Craw or Culprit worm.

But last year I started experimenting when the bite died off later in the year. Started throwing something with a totally different profile/action the fish hadn’t seen and it really worked.

A couple times, partner had cast into the weed edge without a bite, I came behind and got bit the next 3 casts with this. They smell like Fritos too, I wonder if fish like to wash them down with beer and chili?

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ssaamm wrote:

Caught a few more after I stopped listening

FryDog that is funny looking bait, but aren’t they all. Heading to SoDak next weekend.

ssaamm wrote:

FryDog that is funny looking bait, but aren’t they all. Heading to SoDak next weekend.

Family health reasons and Covid are why I haven’t been to SoDak in 2 years.. sure do miss it. Send us a report when you get back. Good luck

For T-rigs instead of leaving the hook buried in the plastic, you can just pull the hook all the way thru and just skin hook the point back into the plastic, that should help with hook ups. The missle Dbomb is a great plastic to Trig. EWG hooks are what I mostly use for Trigs these days.

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Just a follow up on your comment that you were losing too many fish because the hook was buried in the worm/plastic. That can be the case many times but I recently learned a solution. Instead of running the hook directly through the center of the worm, go ahead and run the shank of the hook through the center but hide the barb closer to the side of the work. Just take your time to keep the worm straight (so it runs true). When rigged this way the hook doesn’t have to fight so much plastic in order to reach the mouth of the fish. Just practice it a bit and you’ll gain confidence. Good luck!

I’ve caught enm on jigs. I still like a Tx rigged crazy legs chigger craw Especially if I’m fishing around weeds vs the jig. It works well on a Carolina rif,too.