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“ What makes ( a Texas rig ) special is that you can throw it into brush or clumps of grass or almost anywhere else without getting hung up .” highlights
In 1990 , I won a big tournament on the Harris Chain of Lakes in Florida . It paid well over $ 100,000 for first place , and I won it by fishing a Texas rig in grass . No other bait could have come through that cover as well , so the Texas rig was essential to my success there and in a lot more of my wins , too .
When I think back on my career , I ’ d estimate that about 70 percent of my tournament winnings have come from fishing soft plastics , and I ’ m certainly not alone on that . Just about every professional angler who ’ s had any success can point to the Texas-rigged worm as being a key bait at one time or another .
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