Have you tried the FREE RIG?

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Doesn't do anything a t rig wont do

A free rig falls more vertically because of the ring in the weight. A Texas rig will glide further on a drag or hop because more of the line is inside the weight. The free rig has been my MVP this year since I first picked it up. Excels around vertical cover and pressured fish.

Sure it does

That was pretty definitive. Where's the mic drop emoji?

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To your point it’s similar, I won’t deny that but the guy was standing directly over his tank jigging the two lures. I think it would have been a better test if he had made a cast into a pool and put some distance on it. Kind of like vertically fishing a drop shot vs casting a drop shot

I agree the test was pretty worthless. A cast or a flip would have been more meaningful. I gotta think if the weights are the same weight and the baits are equal they are the same.

I have seen one where you tie the wight on the end of the line and the bait is what is free to side up and down the line.

I could see that working but you’d probably have to buy hooks with a welded eye. I believe most are just rolled and the end of the wire can catch your knot every once in a while

Would be hard to set the hook when a fish is 5ft from the weight. Plus I'm not sure it would cast worth a flip. Your weight would take off twice as far as your bait.

Never fished a free rig but the main difference in my mind is the texas rig sinker has a small hole the other sinker has a much larger opening for line to slide thru. Just saying and water tank was useless test.
May try it

When I first started lure fishing as a kid, this was my Texas Rig - Family was bait fishing and I just leveraged the same weights we used for that...

Saw “Free Rig” and thought someone was giving away a boat! 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️. Seriously, hardly a “game changer”. Small differences to a normal T-rig and not as weedless.

Yes I have (on a lake) and decided to just stick with the Tx. rig instead.