MASTERS SERIES
the texas rig
IN EVERY CRAFT , THERE IS A MASTER : AN ARTIST , PLAYER OR PERFORMER OF CONSUMMATE SKILL WHOSE WORK SERVES AS A MODEL OR IDEAL …
As told by Larry Nixon
PHOTO BY ANDY HAGEDON
probably saw my first Texas-rigged worm in the late 1960s or
I early ’ 70s in Arkansas , but I ’ d been fishing a worm on a jighead for several years before that . When I saw the Texas rig and that self-weedless design , I thought it was the answer to bass fishing ! You could throw it anywhere you wanted to throw it , and it opened up a whole new world to bass anglers .
In 1969 or 1970 , after my second year of college , I heard they needed bass guides on Toledo Bend and Sam Rayburn reservoirs in Texas . I went down there to guide , and we were catching 100 bass a day on Texas-rigged worms — mostly Creme Scoundrels back then .
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