I've caught plenty of bass on T-rig worm, but never on a C-rig or a jig. I used to think that if I wasn't catching, there just weren't any bass where I was fishing. Now, though, I'm wondering if I just haven't learned what a bass bite feels like on C-rigs and jigs.

Does anyone have tips on learning to feel a bass's bite? I guess I could try to set the hook every time something feels strange, but I'd probably just get hung up a lot more frequently.

here's some info on wormin'

http://texasfishingforum.com/forums/ubbt...he_#Post3504565

One of the best ways to shorten the learning curve in jig fishing is to start out throwing the round head finesse jigs. The bites are very similar to a T-rig and it also will give you confidence. There are no hard and fast rules in detecting bite as it can be different every time. Best bet is to not over think it and just stay at it.
Also a C-rig bite can be so many different ways as well that its hard to give just one answer. Normally it gets mushy feeling or you feel the fish pulling on the bait.
Again nothing beats practice.

You may feel a bump. Some people set the hook on the bump. I personally wait till I feel the rod load up when fishing plastics. However, when in doubt set the hook. Hook sets don't cost a thing!

Getting Bite!!!!! I know thats what you want to hear. Sometimes it feels like rock, but it my not be a rock, ho thats a stump maybe not. I'am Stuck, back up the boat, wait I'am not stuck thats a double digit on Lake Fork. Sets are free. I sit on everything, Paid off more then not. my 2 cents

Use some braid youll get a good feel of what a bite is.

on c rig, hold your rod at a 3 o'clock position parralel to the water and reel very slowly and steadily. when the rod loads, taps or feels mushy as mentioned above, set the hook.

Lindy Roberts the guide on ray bob says this is his favorite way to teach new anglers to fish because its pretty easy.

give it a try and good luck

mushy feeling. I like that. I could never quite explain what a c-rig bite feels like, but that is pretty good.

I've often thought it would be great to have a machine at a fishing expo or trade show that teaches this. Imagine being able to hold a rod that has some line attached to a machine a few feet away, and then have the machine recreate some of the "feelings" that you get when you fish a T-rig or C-rig. You could set up the machine for "bluegill" and have it recreate the rat-a-tat-tat that bluegill make, or "sandy bottom" and duplicate that, or "subtle bass bite" and recreate that. Anybody wanna take this idea and run with it?

I would not automatically assume the rat a tat tat is always a bluegill. I have caught more than a few big bass that felt like that on the bite. Lake Bridgeport is a prime location where this happes a lot.n Best bet is to set the hook if you even feel the slightest difference in your bait.

First of all you know if you feel a hard tap, or tap tap it is a fish and you set the hook. If your line is moving to the side or you see it jump, that is a fish and you set the hook.

It is the light bites that are harder to determine. Tie on a bait and have someone walk away from you and then make the line a little taught. Don't look but have them thump the line. That "tic" you feel is what it feels like when a fish bites lightly.
Sometimes you will feel nothing when you should feel the weight of your bait, in that case a fish has it in its mouth and is moving toward you, reel in the slack and set the hook.
Sometimes your bait will feel heavier than it is supposed to. At that time I just keep my line taught, if I feel nothing at all then usually my bait is against some type of cover. If it is a fish it will continue to get heavier or you will feel some type of movement from the fish and then you set the hook.
That is what works for me.

To make the most of a c-rig you have to be able to recognize a pressure bite. And big or deep fish are notorious for pressure bites.
Most of the time you never really "feel" anything with a pressure bite (or it would be called some other type of bite�LOL); no thump no tick no pulling no nothing. What you do recognize is the slight difference in feel caused by the very slight increase in pressure being placed on your line from the fact you now have a fish attached. To me it feels like something is fouled on the line, kind of like you suddenly have a leaf or clump of grass caught on the line adding extra water resistance. Others have described it like having hooked a wash cloth or like something is now laying across the line.
With enough time that feeling of wondering why you suddenly cannot seem to get a good feel for the bait will turn into the instant dead certainty that a fish has picked up your bait and you will start reacting accordingly.
When I am fishing plastics and at the top of my game I find myself hooking fish that gave me absolutely zero clues as to their presence, I just suddenly know that something alive is at the other end. And times when I have been with an inexperienced boater I have even been asked what prompted me to set the hook at that moment and I do not have an answer other than I just knew a fish had picked my bait up.
And that type of touch with a c-rig is not a mysteriously acquired skill, it usually only comes from TOW throwing a c-rig and learning what it is supposed to feel like at all times on differing types of lake bottoms. That way you will instantly know when it does not feel like it should. Which is what a pressure bite is all really all about, which is knowing right away when something feels different than it should.

I used to struggle with this a lot and still do to a certain extent because I don't get to fish all the time. When I made the switch over to F-carbon it was really bad. Everything felt like a bite.

The only thing I can tell you is, when you have a fish on, you will know it. Once you can remember what that feels like, you are good to go.

I prefer to know what I am fishing or dragging the C'rig over and then set the hook on anything that feels different. Use your electronics to determine the bottom composition like is there grass, is it a rock bottom, and is there any brush. It is much easier to learn what those type of things should feel like when you drag a C'rig over or through them. Bites can come so many ways that only experience will teach you. But if you know what C'rigs feels like without a fish biting then anything that feels different from the expected can very possibly be a fish.

A c-rig is one of the best ways to tell what kind of bottom you are fishing. Its an old school thing I guessbut I trust the feedback from my rig more than I do electronics.