When a fish picks it up, you’ll either feel the weight of the fish on the bait or you’ll see your line begin to swim away. You should be able to feel the vibration of the bait dragging across the content of the bottom through your rod. You will want to drag it about 2 to 3 feet at a time, reel up the slack, and repeat.
The lure is then slowly drug across the bottom, maintaining contact with the base for the entire time with a slow upward pull with the rod tip. This technique involves throwing your Texas Rig out and letting it sink to the bottom on a slackline. The first presentation we will look at is the dragging retrieve. There are several different presentations that you can employ to trigger more bass to bite, and we’ll go over them here. It’s the perfect tactic for fishing for lethargic and inactive bass and offers them an easy-to-eat meal because the bait is often dropped right into their face. You can pick away at structure with them, leaving no stone unturned in your search for a monster bass. Texas Rigs are best fished slowly on the bottom. This line works great for pulling big bass out of thick weeds. Due to the small diameter of braided line, you can get away with a much heavier pound test, generally in the 30 to 65-pound range, but it is easier for the fish to see in clear water. Braided line has no stretch and allows for great penetration on the hook set at a low line diameter.
In hefty cover, you should use a braided line. This line is less visible to the fish and extremely abrasion resistant, which prevents your line from getting nicked up and frayed around the structure. We typically like to use a low-stretch fluorocarbon line in 8 to 25-pound test when fishing in clearer water.
We try to match our line size to the water’s clarity and cover that we are fishing. We pair the rod with a high speed 7:1 gear ratio or faster reel to help pick up slack quickly after the bite and get the fish moving up toward the boat fast, keeping them from getting themselves and your line tangled in the cover below.
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