If you have ever done any kind of bass fishing, you probably have heard of these two types of rigging for your worms. These two types have been around for a long time span, and both of them have produced some massive bass. Overall, fishing with worms might be the one best method to catch the really large bass. It has to do with the realistic action that a worm mimics in the water, and combined with a soft body, the worm just tends to resemble real food to the largemouth bass. But let me just cover these 2 different types of worm rigging.
The Texas rig is the simplest of the 2. It is only comprised of a cone shaped weight, worm, and a hook. Place the cone shaped weight on the line first, tie your hook off, then put your worm on the hook, and you are ready to go. The Texas rig is very tightly fit, and works very nicely when you are fishing deep vegetation, where so often bass make their abode.
On the other hand, the Carolina rig is a little more complicated. It uses a worm, bead, barrel swivel, hook, leader line, and weight. Put the weight on first , then the bead, tie off the barrel swivel, put on a leader line, tie off your hook, then put your worm on the hook, and you are ready to Carolina rig fish. Because the weight is disjointed from the worm, when the lure is presented to the fish, it looks more genuine, and thus may yield more hits. But you have to weigh it out though, because the Carolina rig is harder to work the cover areas, and thus when you are fishing the Carolina rig, you might not be able to place the lure as close to the fish, which translates into less bass.
