Keys to reverse rigging the Texas Rig Worm

The Key to Reverse Rigging a Texas Rig Worm
Today’s newest technology on the B.A.S.S. Circuit involves reversing your worm, senko, brush-hog or tube by using a bottom hanging weight. Over the past couple of years the need to show the bass something different has produced a new bait action called “Reverse Rigging.” Its not a difficult process it just takes a little creativity to set this rig up properly.

The bottom hanging weight has taken on a couple of different looks from a screw head to a wire hanging weight. The key is to make something weight the bait from the pointed hook end to the bottom end of the bait. For example a senko can easily be reversed on the hook rigged Texas style and a screw head inserted into the end of the senko and it will fall in reverse action to a normal drop. Or a “Brush Hog” can be reversed on a Texas Rig weighted from the point of the hook by a weight with a wire hanger on the end that is just placed over the hook point then the point inserted into the bait.

These actions reverse the fall of the bait, and allow for many different types of uses on Lake Guntersville. The most prevalent advantage I see is for those of you who like to fish boathouses this style of rigging allows you to skip the bait easily under a boathouse. Those of you who enjoy flipping the thick grass this rigging style will quickly and easily force the bait through the heavy grass with out hanging up and give a complete new presentation for the grass fisherman. The reverse action of the bait is a whole new look and I personally am catching more fish with it especially in what I would call is a community hole where the fishing pressure is enormous.

I hope this tip gives you some new ideas on presentations and allows you to become a better fisherman. Let’s do some reverse rigging together I’d be glad to teach you this newest technique that is leading the B.A.S.S. Pro’s to some of their biggest bags ever.