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Technique used for fishing with soft plastic lures

The Texas rig is a fishing rig used for angling with soft plastic lures. It comprises a bullet weight or similar sliding fishing sinker, an offset worm hook, and a soft plastic lure. This rig is most commonly used to target freshwater fish such as largemouth bass and smallmouth bass.

The Texas rig is typically fished in a cast and retrieve style; it is cast into body of water and worked slowly along the bottom in a manner designed to entice nearby fish. However, fish will often strike this rig as it first sinks into the water.

In some cases, a glass or plastic bead is threaded onto the line between the weight and the hook. Some anglers believe that the added noise or color provided by the bead serves some advantage in attracting fish, especially in stained or muddied water, as the clicking sound of the weight hitting the bead may imitate the sound of a crayfish, a common food for freshwater bass and similar trophy fish. Some variants of the Texas rig call for the weight to be "stopped" (i. e. made unable to slide back and forth on the line). This is usually accomplished by inserting a toothpick through the weight and breaking it off so that part of the toothpick is lodged between the weight and the line. reduces the likelihood of the hook getting caught on underwater debris. In order to reduce the rate of the lure's descent and allow for greater finesse in moving it to entice fish, some fishermen leave out the weight altogether; this is often referred to as a weightless Texas rig.