>>794619Here's a pic of a lizard Texas-rigged. You just slide a bullet weight on the line before you tie the hook, then pop an offset worm hook on there and rig the soft bait like the pics.
I end up using 3/0 or 4/0 EWG (extra wide gap) worm hooks for most stuff. 3/0 will work for most worms, lizards, and brush hogs. 4/0 for the flukes/shads, fatter crawdads, frogs.
I would reccommend going with the lizards or brush hogs. I have been doing well with those lately. If you are fishing them in some grass or weeds, the little legs, claws, and tails stick out and the bass go crazy. In weeds like that, the darker black and blue colors have been doing well since they stand out against the green and brown background.
And you can youtube how to fish them. How I normally do it is cast them out and let it hit the bottom. Then give it little hops along the bottom with breaks in between each hop for a second or 3. You will feel the fish bite, and you want to give them a couple seconds to pick up the whole bait before setting the hook. If you set it too fast, they might only have the tail in their mouth and you won't hook them.
And when I'm fishing really weedy lakes, I like to try and cast as far past the weeds as possible. I will run the bait slow along the bottom until I get to the edge of the weeds and then start reeling faster so the line and bait doesn't get all caught up. In thick vegetaition, the bass will be lurking right on the edge of them a lot of times looking for something to make the mistake of swimming outside the weeds. I get a lot of hits doing that when I am like 2'-3' from the edge of the weed bed.
