What I'm going to do now is show you how to rig a plastic worm. This is a, just a general technique, works any place, you know wood, rocks, clear water, stained water, with any type of a worm type bait. It doesn't have to be a curly tail or anything. And this is actually a very large Yamamoto cut tail, straight tail worm. It's a very good lifelike action type worm. And the way we're going to rig it, and there again, this is very basic. There are lot of ways to rig it. So, we're going to set us up a Texas rig. I like using a GamakatsuEWG hook. This is a True Tungston three eighths sinker. I like to peg my sinkers because I don't like them, I don't like when I'm Texas rigging a worm, I don't like them sliding up and down because as you're moving it sometimes that would give you a false bite or a sense. And then as it comes over a log this thing, the weight slides down it and then the hook will just be on the other side of the log. It kind of, or a stick and be drooped over like that. And so you don't have as much control over your bait as you want it to be. So I like to use a bobber stoppers, and I put them down on there and I keep that weight really close to the bait because I don't want it moving. I feel I have more control over the bait. And what we're going to do is if you push the hook in to the worm head, just right to the bend, right there, we're just going to pull it back out, and you need to pay attention to where your eye is and how much room you have right here. Because you don't want to put too much of the worm up on to the line. So you just want just enough so it gets up here to the knot and touches the weight, which we've done right there. And then you pull it up, just pull it up so it's up here on the bend, and it snugs up against the weight. We're going to set the hook on top of the worm to see how far back it's going to go and make it look like it's going to go through the bait. And I'll just pick it up, pull it right through all the way through the center so the hook goes all the way out, turn the bait back over, slide the worm up forward and then just let the hook tip go in to the worm and then pull it back. So there it keeps it weedless, it'll slide through, and when the fish bites on to it, they'll pull down on to it and it'll get your hook out. So what you'll want to do is flip your bait as far as you can, get it right in to a pocket like that, just let it sit, let your line go slack for a second, let the fish turn around and come back if they're spooked then just work it back a little bit for it.
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