I appreciate all the knowledge. I had a brain injury a while ago in Iraq and it caused me to forget alot about bass fishing. Your channel helped with my therapy. THANK YOU SIR!! RangersLeadTheWay!!
@@muskietime thank you sir. I have to use RUclips alot to relearn things. Its helpful especially with good people putting out good fishing info for us less than perfect humans. I appreciate it
Hey @WhyteRandy , here's a nugget that goes with this vid. That beaver ribbed bait he's using are great with scent gels. It stays in those ribs or bellows, for much.longer than smooth surface. Check out Geecrack soft baits. Lots of bellows baits. Just super with the thick goopy scent stuff. I can't begin to tell you how much better it works.
Tyler, thank you for the time and effort you put into the content of your videos! I’m an experienced, hard core bass fisherman and there is always something I take away from your videos which isn’t true for about 90 percent of the content available.
For me,its a matter of safety being a saltwater angler. Redundancy if the motor goes down I have the pedals, if the drive goes,I can paddle. I also fish alot of current seams. Being able to hold position hands free while casting is nice as well as making slight adjustments while drifting. It will always have a place
Fellow Buckeye... loving the content, and it's nice to see someone finally mentioning using a tube for something other than St Clair smallies. I also love nose-hooking tubes on drop shots & carolina rigs... and, if all you have is hollow-body tubes, you can cut off a piece of a beat up senko and shove it in the tube for more "body" for the hook to bite into.
Tyler, 90% of of our fishing in my home province in Sojth Africa is texas rigged soft plastics due to the massive amount of grass. I found that a frog hook works really well and protects your soft plastic bait more than any other hook. Ga not affected our success rate at all. Stunning video and channel.
Bass fishermen are a special breed. Never met a group quite like bass fishermen. Some of the only people out there who will gladly spend 50k+ to never taste a fish 😅😂
I kind of stopped throwing texas rig for a bit thought I was too good for it but man I put it back in the rotation and it's now what I reach for every time I forgot how good it is
I use Berkley fusion screw lock swim bait hooks for my Texas rig stick baits and round bodied craws. It helps the bait not get flung off as often when the fish jumps and thrashes around.
I really like the way you compiled a lot of you other vids to dive on the Trig. In particular the different hook sets. Sometimes you gotta put the mustard on the dog!
I’ve been mid strolling/ hover strolling with a Texas rigged or texpossed VMC finesse neko size 1, Zman trd minnowz and an unpegged 1/32 oz weight. Amazing what a difference in casting and action in the water with and without the tiny weight. Fishing in 2 feet or less of water depth. Catching small bass though , 1-2lbers.
Glad to see I’m not the only one who throws swim baits and swims curly tails on a weighted Texas rig I’ve been slaying bass for years with Texas rig paddle tails only difference is I use cheap lead weights if I’m swimming them if I’m fishing on bottom I’ll use tungsten I also use ned heads for swim baits sometimes as well no wonder it’s like you read my mind were from the same area I’m from Indiana just across the Ohio border the same techniques work for us I use the Texas rig probably 60% of the time and I use the same techniques just different brands I prefer the bandito bug and split tail menace for flipping and I use yum dingers
No way! I didn't know you owned Finn... I just bought 2 shirts from Marshalls friggin love these t shirts. Going to your website to buy more. Sick! Great videos man
I love and enjoy saltwater pier fishing out here in California and I like using the jika rig a lot for calico bass and spotted bay bass and for cabazon and mackerel fish 🎣👍🏼 💯% my favorite
We fish texas rigs very similar along with the baits, found the adrenaline crawl last year caught a ton of fish on them, the Ol monster used to be my favorite big worm but found another Xzone winner, the Blitz Worm, it is made out of the same floating material as the adrenaline crawl, also love throwing a tube on a texas rig, I seem to get bigger bites on a tube, the BioSpawn Vile Tube is another great bait
Also the importance of setting the hook hard (per Dad 60 years experience) after you reel down will eliminate gut hooking the bass. It usually jerks the bait out of the crusher (throat) of the Bass and hooks in the roof or some part of the mouth.
I got a pack of those plum apple Ol monsters for $3 at ollies last fall been waiting for things to heat up to fish em. The powerbait 10" tequila sunrise power worms are also MONEY!
I'll use rage craw delta red crayfish. I'll use a 3/0 ewg superline offset hook with 1/16 weight with trophy bass. I let it fall 3 to 4 seconds. Moderate retrieve 3 to 5 seconds slightly raise rod tip then lower rod. Reeling line Moderate tempo the whole time even with raising and lowering rod tip. I put trophy bass on. No luck on this rig yet but will keep trying a bit if no luck then I'll put this rig away or stop using it. The reason I stopped using this I never got bites on it. I fish this rig well even subsurface in the summer and nothing yet.
Tyler you have to try the Z-man GOAT sometime, I have found that it is probably IMO the best punching bait out there. That is factory in size, appendages, action, and most importantly durability between beating it up through mats with that heavy weight and also can catch multiple fish on one single bait.
I started fishing the Texas rig with the newest hot bait in the early 1980’s. What was that new hot bait? A red Culprit worm…which is still a consistent producer 40 years later.
oddly enough, I've never had success with tubes and LMB's, smallies sure, its a main lure for me with smallies. Pressured lakes, ponds, and rivers for LMB's I'll use a fluke with light twitches, ned rigs, and a wacky rig.
The hardest time I have with punching is when the lure gets hung up in some thick vegetation down at the bottom. It feels a lot like a potential bite, it's very hard to not set the hook constantly... I just got to your pumping section and perhaps I'm thinking of punching wrong? I have been punching 4-5 feet into mat, and then trying to work it through the mat on the bottom back to the edge, I guess that isn't the way to go about doing it, since of course that makes it more likely to gather stuff on the lure/line.
Hello. I have seen a lot of ways to spool braided line on a bait caster reel. I want to know your preferred method of spooling a bait caster reel with braided line please? Would it be possible to do a video on it or comment here on it please? I am new to bait casters. I trust your experience enough to ask and learn from you.
I always peg the weight if I don't want it pegged I just slide the stop up the line saves time retieing and helps keep the weight from sliding too far up the line when casting I have a tendency to throat hook a lot of fish on Texas rigs seems like if they're big enough they engulf it before you get the chance to set the hook any tips to help prevent or reduce that
Very good clinic on soft plastics. About the only thing i can disagree with is your title because you haven't changed a thing about the way I fish soft plastics. Have been fishing them 55yrs in Fl/s. Ga and almost have it figured out. You'd enjoy fishing Seminole.
Looks like you are parked just north of the Cheshire bridge on Alum. Very thorough overview of the Texas rig. Do you consider heavy salted baits like the cover scat in this category just without the lead weight or are they in a different category.
I think a good video idea/ challenge would be to take a subscribers tackel bag and see if what they have in it you could catch a fish/ win a tournament no cheating.and if you catch a fish they get a hat or bait or something 😅
Tyler, how are your USA made shirts so competitively priced with clothing manufactured overseas? Not looking for business secrets, but I'm curious how you can offer prices like this.
I had to save up a little at a time and buy my rods as I get enough. I usually have an idea of the rod that I have and wanting to buy and I set that as my goal. Now I have 15 different kinds of rods and reels that I have been able to purchase over the years
Idk why everyone calls a green pumpkin a natural color lol its a more universal color that can be fished from slightly stained water to dirty water. Watermelon seed or with red is a more natural color then junebug or black blue for muddy dirty water. To me weight depends on depth or how thick the cover is. I'll never fish more than a 1/4 oz in shallow water unless there's thick vegetation where I'm fishing and generally I fish 1/8th to 3/16th the most. 3/8 to 1/2 oz for deep water (more open) 1/2oz to 1 1/2oz for thick cover flipping and punching. The bait imo is also on clarity of the water I'm fishing. I very rarely use a beaver bait because it doesn't move much water and I need that water displacement due to fishing dirty to muddy waters (similar to Florida) all the time.
He couldn't win in his home state....the real ohio legends are my second dad gary Dee's, steve floyd....etc etc....this guy is a average angler compared to us ...
I appreciate all the knowledge. I had a brain injury a while ago in Iraq and it caused me to forget alot about bass fishing. Your channel helped with my therapy. THANK YOU SIR!! RangersLeadTheWay!!
You Sir, are a Hero.
My thoughts and Prayers today are all for You and your full recovery.
Thank You.
@@muskietime thank you sir. I have to use RUclips alot to relearn things. Its helpful especially with good people putting out good fishing info for us less than perfect humans. I appreciate it
Hey @WhyteRandy , here's a nugget that goes with this vid. That beaver ribbed bait he's using are great with scent gels. It stays in those ribs or bellows, for much.longer than smooth surface. Check out Geecrack soft baits. Lots of bellows baits. Just super with the thick goopy scent stuff. I can't begin to tell you how much better it works.
Thank you for all you’ve done brother
Thank you sir for your service.
Tyler, thank you for the time and effort you put into the content of your videos! I’m an experienced, hard core bass fisherman and there is always something I take away from your videos which isn’t true for about 90 percent of the content available.
Thanks for watching! I try my best and I appreciate everyone who watches
John I can’t agree more, I feel like a beginner with all the stuff Tyler teaches, even as a hard core tornement angler😂
For me,its a matter of safety being a saltwater angler. Redundancy if the motor goes down I have the pedals, if the drive goes,I can paddle. I also fish alot of current seams. Being able to hold position hands free while casting is nice as well as making slight adjustments while drifting. It will always have a place
Fellow Buckeye... loving the content, and it's nice to see someone finally mentioning using a tube for something other than St Clair smallies. I also love nose-hooking tubes on drop shots & carolina rigs... and, if all you have is hollow-body tubes, you can cut off a piece of a beat up senko and shove it in the tube for more "body" for the hook to bite into.
Tyler, 90% of of our fishing in my home province in Sojth Africa is texas rigged soft plastics due to the massive amount of grass. I found that a frog hook works really well and protects your soft plastic bait more than any other hook. Ga not affected our success rate at all. Stunning video and channel.
The artwork showing the bass hanging out at the roof belongs in a museum. Thank you for this video! Really helpful advice as always.
Bass fishermen are a special breed. Never met a group quite like bass fishermen. Some of the only people out there who will gladly spend 50k+ to never taste a fish 😅😂
I would if the fish didn’t have hazardous toxins in our rivers. This is Texas btw
@@inter5123what’s in the rivers?
@@CoolGames012bruh so much pollution. Not even legally allowed to eat fish out of the Mississippi near Memphis for my anecdotal evidence
@@DeeZeePeezee dang, I didn’t know that, do you still fish or just completely avoid it there?
This is such a qualitative and thorough tutorial. Thank you.
This is the best texas rig video ever
I kind of stopped throwing texas rig for a bit thought I was too good for it but man I put it back in the rotation and it's now what I reach for every time I forgot how good it is
That tube hook you are using is a game changer! I almost stopped fishing a tube until I found the trokar tube hook. It sticks them and holds them.
I use Berkley fusion screw lock swim bait hooks for my Texas rig stick baits and round bodied craws. It helps the bait not get flung off as often when the fish jumps and thrashes around.
This video was absolutely top shelf. It is very hard to raise the bar on this one !!! Many Thanks...
Great job explaining and going through the details. Lots of good analysis laid out in a clear and concise manner.
Fav bass RUclipsr! Love how you enjoy every catch!
Every fish is a lot of fun
Man, you are revolutionizing fishing. Love everything you're doing. Keep it up!!
I really like the way you compiled a lot of you other vids to dive on the Trig. In particular the different hook sets. Sometimes you gotta put the mustard on the dog!
I’ve been mid strolling/ hover strolling with a Texas rigged or texpossed VMC finesse neko size 1, Zman trd minnowz and an unpegged 1/32 oz weight. Amazing what a difference in casting and action in the water with and without the tiny weight. Fishing in 2 feet or less of water depth. Catching small bass though , 1-2lbers.
Glad to see I’m not the only one who throws swim baits and swims curly tails on a weighted Texas rig I’ve been slaying bass for years with Texas rig paddle tails only difference is I use cheap lead weights if I’m swimming them if I’m fishing on bottom I’ll use tungsten I also use ned heads for swim baits sometimes as well no wonder it’s like you read my mind were from the same area I’m from Indiana just across the Ohio border the same techniques work for us I use the Texas rig probably 60% of the time and I use the same techniques just different brands I prefer the bandito bug and split tail menace for flipping and I use yum dingers
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Greatly appreciated.
No way! I didn't know you owned Finn... I just bought 2 shirts from Marshalls friggin love these t shirts. Going to your website to buy more. Sick! Great videos man
One of the first here you are truly an inspiration for me and I have learned so much so thank you!!!
That means a lot…thanks for watching
I love and enjoy saltwater pier fishing out here in California and I like using the jika rig a lot for calico bass and spotted bay bass and for cabazon and mackerel fish 🎣👍🏼 💯% my favorite
We fish texas rigs very similar along with the baits, found the adrenaline crawl last year caught a ton of fish on them, the Ol monster used to be my favorite big worm but found another Xzone winner, the Blitz Worm, it is made out of the same floating material as the adrenaline crawl, also love throwing a tube on a texas rig, I seem to get bigger bites on a tube, the BioSpawn Vile Tube is another great bait
Really enjoyed this video! Can’t wait to get out there
Also the importance of setting the hook hard (per Dad 60 years experience) after you reel down will eliminate gut hooking the bass. It usually jerks the bait out of the crusher (throat) of the Bass and hooks in the roof or some part of the mouth.
I got a pack of those plum apple Ol monsters for $3 at ollies last fall been waiting for things to heat up to fish em. The powerbait 10" tequila sunrise power worms are also MONEY!
I did the same….. I’ll tell you one thing I’ve learned about plum apple and grass… it WILL catch big ones!!
I'll use rage craw delta red crayfish. I'll use a 3/0 ewg superline offset hook with 1/16 weight with trophy bass. I let it fall 3 to 4 seconds. Moderate retrieve 3 to 5 seconds slightly raise rod tip then lower rod. Reeling line Moderate tempo the whole time even with raising and lowering rod tip. I put trophy bass on. No luck on this rig yet but will keep trying a bit if no luck then I'll put this rig away or stop using it. The reason I stopped using this I never got bites on it. I fish this rig well even subsurface in the summer and nothing yet.
Do less reeling and more hops
i caught my PB largemouth last summer dragging a ribbontail worm on a highly pressured urban lake here in MI.
Thanks for the tips. I love the adrenaline craw, has great action, but I have yet to get a bite 😢. Dunno why my bass don’t thump it!!
Good times😎🤙enjoy your fishing videos🐟
5:30 , Can you fix that by just tying it with a jig knot or a bead? Or is that too loose?
Tyler you have to try the Z-man GOAT sometime, I have found that it is probably IMO the best punching bait out there. That is factory in size, appendages, action, and most importantly durability between beating it up through mats with that heavy weight and also can catch multiple fish on one single bait.
My friend once told me to put the hook in the plastic only as far down as the distance from the eye to the first bend.
I use beads a lot one for knot protection and also for noise
Thanks for your input on this topic.
That Berkley swimbait works great on a hover rig , you can work it like a jerkbait
Really liked this one. Thank you
I started fishing the Texas rig with the newest hot bait in
the early 1980’s. What was that new hot bait?
A red Culprit worm…which is still a consistent producer 40 years later.
But I sure like some of the weird new creature baits to complement fishing the traditional worm style baits.
oddly enough, I've never had success with tubes and LMB's, smallies sure, its a main lure for me with smallies. Pressured lakes, ponds, and rivers for LMB's I'll use a fluke with light twitches, ned rigs, and a wacky rig.
The hardest time I have with punching is when the lure gets hung up in some thick vegetation down at the bottom. It feels a lot like a potential bite, it's very hard to not set the hook constantly... I just got to your pumping section and perhaps I'm thinking of punching wrong? I have been punching 4-5 feet into mat, and then trying to work it through the mat on the bottom back to the edge, I guess that isn't the way to go about doing it, since of course that makes it more likely to gather stuff on the lure/line.
Great vid! Thanks! Would you still use that same parabolic rod, if it was windy and tougher to feel the bite?
I guess I'm Old school I like the tooth pick over the bobber stoppers. I know the tooth pick will hold the weight
Brand new fisherman here. You mentioned sound. Can you use a chatterbait on a texas rig? If so, would you still use it the same way?
Hello. I have seen a lot of ways to spool braided line on a bait caster reel. I want to know your preferred method of spooling a bait caster reel with braided line please? Would it be possible to do a video on it or comment here on it please? I am new to bait casters. I trust your experience enough to ask and learn from you.
30:33 Jesus Christ, fella 😂😂😂
I always peg the weight if I don't want it pegged I just slide the stop up the line saves time retieing and helps keep the weight from sliding too far up the line when casting
I have a tendency to throat hook a lot of fish on Texas rigs seems like if they're big enough they engulf it before you get the chance to set the hook any tips to help prevent or reduce that
Hey tyler you should include straw hats in your finn store ,they are good for those sunny hot days of fishing
Yes I think I will do that
Tyler.. can you tell me what the difference between the Trokar 135 and 130 is and if it really makes a difference plz??
I have the strike king rage bug not the misslebaits d bomb do you think those are similar enough 🤔
Did you have this information when you did the video “Whats everyone talking about Vertiv for” just 2 days ago. Seems like that would of been prudent
Very good clinic on soft plastics. About the only thing i can disagree with is your title because you haven't changed a thing about the way I fish soft plastics. Have been fishing them 55yrs in Fl/s. Ga and almost have it figured out. You'd enjoy fishing Seminole.
Try the Geecrack Bao Bob EX.. in the bug bomb color
Tyler, can you tell me the power and action of rod you will throw the 10in worm on ?
M/H power fast action 7’3”-7’6”
I can’t help it, I cross their eyes every time!😀
Let's gooo! Master class time
What's your view on when to peg the weight and when to go without a peg?
Talked about that in the video. I choose not to peg unless I need to
Try tequila sunrise zoom worms they are the absolute best
Looks like you are parked just north of the Cheshire bridge on Alum. Very thorough overview of the Texas rig. Do you consider heavy salted baits like the cover scat in this category just without the lead weight or are they in a different category.
Different category that's titled poopbaits
did you link your texas rig whight in the description? love your vids
I think a good video idea/ challenge would be to take a subscribers tackel bag and see if what they have in it you could catch a fish/ win a tournament no cheating.and if you catch a fish they get a hat or bait or something 😅
Wonderful vid!!
Ty, any idea when small/medium gloves will be available again? 🤔
Should be 2 weeks
@@BassFishingHQ Much appreciated sir. I’ll keep an eye out. 🫡
What bait is that in the cover of the video the orange swim bait
If the bait moving more freely causes more bites then why not just do a Carolina rig rather than a Texas rig?
Where are those weights from?
Does he ever talk about the Texas rig swimbait?
The one thing that helps me get bites is using trophy bass by procure. 😀
Tyler, how are your USA made shirts so competitively priced with clothing manufactured overseas? Not looking for business secrets, but I'm curious how you can offer prices like this.
I didn’t want to price them out of the market so I am taking a cut on the margin
I thought you didn't use a EWG hook anymore?🧐
You forgot to mention Owner's screwlock hooks. A bait lasts twice as long compared to the hooks you listed
I've never seen a guy trying to kick a fish, but there it is, 6:19
Very well put together
As an ohio native the big worm always gets em👍🏻
Brush hog’s honorable mention.
Amen to that
Not sure who Mikey Balls is but Bub Tosh the Master of Punching!
I'm getting into fishing what ate the weights called
Bullet weights
Some worm weights I've seen would work too
Although I use carolina rig setup
12:45
Me getting into fishing: whats your favorite fish to eat
Fisherman: i dont like the taste of fish
@@martonclarke295 I love the taste of fish. Nothing beats saltwater but I do love perch and walleye
Have you done a video on turd baits?
Now you are getting personal. Fishing in Ohio. True though
Restitution for them also
What happens when you can not afford those very long rods .
that rod is $140...
I had to save up a little at a time and buy my rods as I get enough. I usually have an idea of the rod that I have and wanting to buy and I set that as my goal. Now I have 15 different kinds of rods and reels that I have been able to purchase over the years
Use what you got and learn to use the bait with that rod
Go with mono line so you have more stretch probably
Caught my PB with half of a senko texas rigged. If it work it works 🤷♂️
Man I was hoping u wouldn't say the baits I use 😂😂
Idk why everyone calls a green pumpkin a natural color lol its a more universal color that can be fished from slightly stained water to dirty water. Watermelon seed or with red is a more natural color then junebug or black blue for muddy dirty water.
To me weight depends on depth or how thick the cover is. I'll never fish more than a 1/4 oz in shallow water unless there's thick vegetation where I'm fishing and generally I fish 1/8th to 3/16th the most. 3/8 to 1/2 oz for deep water (more open) 1/2oz to 1 1/2oz for thick cover flipping and punching.
The bait imo is also on clarity of the water I'm fishing. I very rarely use a beaver bait because it doesn't move much water and I need that water displacement due to fishing dirty to muddy waters (similar to Florida) all the time.
You didn't even mention the best weight for T rigging in 8 for or less with 7 mph or less wind. NO WEIGHT
There are a lot of brands of Rods At that size at a very low price
Yeah it's slim Pickens in OHIO FOR GOOD spots huh bud?
6 inch black plastic worm Texas rig
👍👍🤙
WAY too much talking.
He couldn't win in his home state....the real ohio legends are my second dad gary Dee's, steve floyd....etc etc....this guy is a average angler compared to us ...
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