Once you’ve hooked your soft-plastic bait through the middle, make a long cast and resist the urge to impart any additional action. Note that Gamakatsu, Trokar and VMC also make weedless models (above right) that excel around vegetation, wood and rocks. While some bass pros use the same extra-wide-gap worm hooks they use for Texas-rigging, I find a needle-sharp, short-shank, octopus hook such as Gamakatsu’s Finesse Wide Gap (above left) to be far superior. When the fish are running large, I upsize the line to 10-pound-test and pick up a baitcasting outfit.
And I usually spool the reel with eight-pound-test fluorocarbon line that sinks, which complements the presentation. When fishing wacky rigs for smallmouth in particular, but also largemouth, I prefer using a 6’10” to 7’2″ medium- to medium-heavy-action spinning rod. Precisely because the wacky rig is so lifelike, it works best when the water is at least modestly clear, giving the fish have plenty of time to gaze at the bait.And while you can speed up the descent by using a weighted hook, wacky jig or tungsten nails pushed into each end of the soft plastic, a feathery free-fall is usually superior, even when fishing in deep water.
Both ends of the soft-plastic offering shimmy and tremble in a way that no other presentation comes close to matching. When you watch how a weightless Senko or standard-shaped nightcrawler falls in the water, it’s clear why the wacky rig is all the rage.
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