STOP Fishing A NED RIG Like This (3 Ned Rig Mistakes)

Ned rigs are one of the best lures to fish for bass. However, there are many mistakes that bass fisherman make when fishing them.
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One of the biggest mistakes I see anglers make is by fishing the ned rig the same way every time they go out fishing. Sure you can probably catch fish doing this but a ned rig is actually more versatile then you think.
Another ned rig mistake I see, is people using too heavy of a ned rig head. These lures were intended to be fished on extremely light heads and it seems that the lighter your head, the more bites you will get.
Another ned rig mistake I see is more of a modification. If you use the modification I show you, it will help you to not have a twisting issue with the ned rig.
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[@josephvanchierijr.2486]

Thanks for the info. Never fished a Ned rig until this year and I am 65. I now catch way more fish.

[@GodGunsGills]

Way more fish but lots of small fish

[@jasonscott5043]

The trick is, as you said, light weight. 1/16th or less. But, equally importantly, it needs to fall on slack line. Give it extra line on the water so it falls with no tension. This lets it wiggle waggle on it’s way down. If you have tension it will mostly just glide down which is bad. Too much weight makes it just glide down with no wiggle waggle too. I like to fish it in 10-15’ of water and hop it off the bottom 4-5’ and let it wiggle waggle back down. Don’t like to jerk it off the bottom though. Real down to the water and smoothly lift the rod tip up about 5’ and the. Give it slack and call to the bottom. I never found it to be a drag bait. It’s a free fall bait.

[@eric34399]

I’m a northern guy so not sure about other places but I throw a ned religiously on a 1/4 because the bait is meant to be on the bottom. If I’m trying to catch them on the fall I’ll throw a light hair jig or something similar.

[@bruceesterline3170]

​@Eric White good point

[@provocation18]

​@@eric34399 Or a wacky rig and senko

[@masfishing1]

Thanks for your comment. I found it very useful for myself.

[@dennishodson990]

A 3/32th oz. will be the head more close to 1/10th oz. and be just a fraction heavier. It will also be the size available in DO-IT molds and hold the hook better.

[@7sunneterrell244]

Hello from Texas. I'm a new fisherWoman I'm learning so much from you. I have watched 2 or 3 other channels from other fisherman that have lots of videos but I must say you have EXCELLENT and Usefully tutorials. Thanks you for your channel.

[@philandjana]

Never realized it was the hook keeper causing the little twist... Thanks

[@west777s]

Hey Tyler here’s a hack for keeping the TRD up on the hook in place without a bait keeper and no glue. I use heads with no bait keeper and simply thread the bait on straight and then pull a little bit of the skin of the bait over the eye of the hook, and snip a little place in it to make a small hole for the eye of the hook to come through. Then it’s ready to tie on. This Works great! No glue, no mess and it will not slip down the hook and you can catch multiple fish this way. Give it a try!

[@BassFishingHQ]

Yea I have seen that as well. I just prefer the dab of glue. But that is definitely a great trick

[@tagg946]

wouldnt that make the plastic look goofy on the hook? i cant stand not having my worm straight on the ned, i swear it causes you to not get as many bites.

[@west777s]

@@tagg946 not at all, It’s still straight as can be. You don’t have to use much of the material. just skin hook it a tiny bit and it holds. Of course it has to be a elaztech material so it stretches but give it a try and you’ll be surprised how well it works. And as far as getting less bites, I’ve found their is no change.

[@glenndaugherity6187]

@@west777s Yes definitely saw this trick on Instagram

[@calebz1448]

@@tagg946 trick worms and many worms are meant to be curved. Not saying I like curved neds but if you notice a difference in bites it's because you're fishing it different subconsciously knowing it isn't as straight as you would like. Ever see a nightcrawler lay straight in the water?

[@russtbaker1]

Good video. Thanks. 2 questions. 1, can you put the plastic worm on a ned rig and make it weedless, like tucking the hook just inside the plastic? Would it still be effective as long as you keep it straight? 2, What weight would you suggest for fishing moving water, like streams and rivers?

[@elijahsoczka6996]

Just caught my first ned rig bass yesterday. It was my last resort, and it lived up to its name.

[@gregoryolenovich6440]

Why did it remind you of Ned?

[@albadawn08]

M

[@kerryschallon8879]

I read somewhere that the originator of the ned rig (Ned Keating) uses heavy line on his.

[@craig9108]

Great video never thought of those methods will try next time I'm on the water. thanks for new ideas

[@JaidenDaltonOutdoors]

Thanks for the tips Tyler they really help caught one today using your tips

[@ericgolf69]

I know Cherokee a lot and I know that lake well, been fishing it since 1986 !! Eric Miller

[@gordjohnson70]

What you are saying works for Walleye too. Along with all the walleye, I catch a lot of other fish also.

[@DS-pv2bj]

Got a 34” pike off a bitty Ned rig :) there extremely versatile between species.

[@dstevenson9489]

Going to try ned rig for first time coming up this week...Thanks for the wonderful tips on what NOT to do....sent the vid to my email so I'll have it saved to share with hubby 'after' I catch some! LOL

[@rich5916]

can you do a video on how to hookset and fight fish using a ned rig/ light finesse tactics

[@426superbee4]

I hide the hook into the body. so its weedless, I can drop into stumps, and moss beds, make it more NATURAL Drawling out fish to it. Some time they strike on contact, most out side of the structures

[@Malysandacz]

Ned rig fished in the middle of water column is not a ned rig anymore essentially.

[@nathanperry4190]

Kayak fished the other day in a small river. Threw everything from jigs to swim baits to jerk baits with no luck. Tied a ned rig on and caught 4 decent largemouth.

[@jooky5]

If your jig head is light enough, you can retrieve like a fluke if the fish are chasing

[@nicholasfrederick7842]

It's so versatile. I used different heads different weights. Ticklers. Jackal Yammy fish

[@Jcarlo1320]

Step one, get on a boat with a fish finder.

[@kickbackentertainment4466]

😂😂😂

[@ryandoll3684]

definitely don’t need a boat or a fish finder 💪🎣

[@bamf0805]

There’s plenty of channels that focus on bank fishing. This isn’t the place for that.

[@OleHickory69]

@@bamf0805right cuz this shits so elite. Imagine using a fish finder and you’re not even getting paid to fish. 😂

[@aneedmorehead9006]

Video game fishers really think they have a leg to stand on. You can’t fish. You just suck up to your boss the best

[@426superbee4]

I will never use a lure with hooks showing. Unless top water lures is the way to fish with hooks showing. But you can't throw them into structures like moss beds and stumps

[@bluefin972]

Thank you bro!

[@carolinabassmaster926]

Like number 200 and comment number 20 what what good stuff btw like the vids

[@BassFishingHQ]

Awesome! Thanks for watching man!!

[@chriszapata9570]

Great tips

[@eyre1720]

Good gouge

[@retired-Tomcat]

Yep i am one of those that fished to heavy of a weight. Thanks for the tips and I will have to give it try with lighter weight. An taking the keeper of too. You are right it does make it deform the bait

[@nicholasfrederick7842]

Certain times I snap it off a snag and bam it gets aten

[@koof1776]

Not if you're ledge fishing as this setup remains King~

[@bakerjeffery1970]

All I can say is wow. I’ve been watching KZbin fishing for a long time, I’ve been making som videos but nothing major. Man, I really like your channel. Great info and good video work. I’m looking forward to following you and looking forward to watching your past videos!

[@BassFishingHQ]

I’m still learning the video side so stay with me. Thanks for watching!

[@bakerjeffery1970]

@@BassFishingHQ you’re welcome and I’m not going anywhere brother

[@smokenjoe4022]

I found the biggest mistake ned rigging is using a jig head period think outside the box😁!

[@freshwaterfiend6268]

I keep telling myself I need to try throwing the Ned more but it always stays on the deck and I never pick it up. I'm sure I'm missing out, but there's so much debris and snags in the rivers I fish that it's almost impossible to throw anything with an exposed hook.

[@goreyboggs]

Dude I lose so many in the Detroit river.

[@H8er-Maker]

I hope sum1 could figure out a way to make this technique more exciting to fish.

[@davidcicetti8421]

I hear ya, but sometimes finesse fishing is flat out the only way to catch em… nothing more frustrating than chucking a squarebill, chatterbait, or jig all day and getting no bites, if you can switch to a Ned and catch a solid limit.

[@toddlester8063]

I dont care for the super glue trick. I'm always playing around with colors and styles, and glue would make me experiment LESS. If the bait balls up, I just pull it off completely and re-rig straight.

[@TheEastBayAnglers]

your hooking your eyes guides / insert with your ned rig and other baits which is a big no no even if the rod has no hook keeper there are 2 other ways to pin it with out doing damage to a rod remember there is vibration to consider and other factors

[@TheEastBayAnglers]

Like the channel by the way even though i know this stuff ned rig is the new senko i would not say its one of the best baits and it worked really well its first 3 yrs that bite will never come back still good lil bait

[@awildgrendel7148]

Talk too much. Just skip to the 3 points asap.

[@chriscatignani8206]

@0:07 seconds...first mistake is to use the ceramic ring of your guide as a hook keeper.

[@adamxiong1817]

I stopped visiting Snag City as soon as I lowered my jig head weights down to 1/10 - 1/15 oz. Never knew it would make a big difference.

[@aleckrug1554]

Yup just takes forever to sink lol. But nice and slow is good for cold water

[@aleckrug1554]

Snag city bitch, snag, snag city bitch. 10 -20 and da 50lb lines shit. Homie with the 65lb not loosin shit.

[@Phreddyfoophred]

Whenever I feel like loosing a jig gead, I Ned rig.

[@davidjohnson1736]

@@aleckrug1554 0000000000000000000000

[@dennisederer3594]

Excellent training video. My follow up question is how to know whether to use a Ned rig or a Neko rig. Thank you for any consideration.

[@thegiant573]

Hooking the Ned Rig through the eye of the rod. Mistake 1

[@tylerabel4631]

Ben around 100 yrs brother we Ben using a piece of a plastic worm on crappie jig all my life

[@RedBeardBassin]

The ned rig has been around for 50+ years and it has been waaaay over played recently is what you mean. 😂

[@brnowak_fishing]

Awesome video man! There’s lots of sneaky tips in this. My biggest mistake is fishing too heavy of a ned rig at times - it feels nice to feel bottom but fishing a lighter head tends to get more bites as it “floats” along the bottom and has more action

[@BassFishingHQ]

Bam! You got to take me out on the suspended fish deal. That looks like a hoot!

[@brnowak_fishing]

@@BassFishingHQ I’m totally down. We should make it happen! It’d be awesome to catch some fish and create some unique vids together

[@_Lt__Dan_]

What tackle tray do you use? looks like the zman lures are doing fine in there.

[@williestephens6280]

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[@geostrong3606]

U talk to much about nothing

[@GodGunsGills]

I fish different ways with all my rigs that I use!!! You can make things up and catch fish! I catch lots of fish on a wacky worm with a weighted ewg hook. I swim all rigs, i drag all rigs, i pop all rigs!!! Just fish man and try things that you think of and it might just work

[@GodGunsGills]

I don't like using super glue on any of my baits/rigs!

[@adventureswithfrodo2721]

Poor video.

[@ryanbuckley3314]

Old school, curly tailed jig anglers might remember cutting the tails of your jigs and downsizing the jig head during a tough bite. Some used to paint over the eyes, some would try to bend the eye out. Ned rigs are a very cool modern take on some old school finesse jigging with curly tails. FN love it!

[@andreabruno5495]

Does curly tail grub on a small jig head still work for bass? I got some neon grubs and orange jig heads lol

[@Gusherjoose315]

@@andreabruno5495 of course, how u think our grampas used to catch em

[@waynedyer2162]

Sheila dyer

[@Michaelkansas2korea]

Best move Ive ever made is changing over to a Hayabusa Baby Shooting Ball for my head. (1/16-3/16) Drop of Loctite and only Zman T.R.D. Biggest mistake people make is buying any other worm. Only Zman!!!

[@TheEastBayAnglers]

your hooking your eyes guides / insert with your ned rig and other baits which is a big no no even if the rod has no hook keeper there are 2 other ways to pin it with out doing damage to a rod remember there is vibration to consider and other factors

[@ericgolf69]

On this video , you are fishing my buddies lake house dock , I fish out on that Blazer a lot and now i have an Allison Craft with a 2.5 and he has a new Nitro where that Blazer use to be LOL Eric Miller and my buddy Gary Kirk owns that lake home LOL

[@tomsellberg3558]

Thanks for the tips…caught the biggest Crappie I have ever caught so far, while Bass fishing…on the Ned Rig.

[@PAwader]

One of the biggest mistakes I see is not using buoyant bait like zman or any ned specific bait. A half cut senko is not the same and you will miss out on fish if you do this

[@alex-wz7uk]

Well I saw a common mistake in this video. Putting the hook in the ring of you're rod. That will damage the ring and it will cut you're line.

[@hungrydad7537]

OK I've gotta claim ignorance here... what tournaments has this guy want to make him such an expert?

[@codymilner6890]

Skip removing the hook keeper. Just buy BJ's lures ned rigs instead

[@dhooter]

Midwest finesse rig has been around for a long time homey. They just recently started calling it the Ned Rig

[@toothpicdinosaur3777]

I put a wavy tail minnow on a Ned rig and bounced it across the rivwr and caught a 32" northern pike.

[@clearwaterfishing]

Great video man! I feel like breaking out the ned rig now!

[@djp411]

I've never heard of a 'ned rig', but it just looks like a solid tube to me.... or a short worm...

[@johnthomas5806]

maybe a vid with actual film showing what you are trying to verbally impress on our minds?

[@richardwood1316]

Great information. Thanks. Especially when you clipped off the bait keeper on Ned bead

[@dannypurdy5894]

We all don’t have boat an screen to look at fishy so how you going to this is important information 👤👎🏽

[@davidkirk2554]

Using panoptix... isnt FISHING.....it is hunting.. .. nice video

[@robertjohnson8742]

Thanks for the video. i going to start fishing the way you talk about,. i one of them thats been fishing it wrong.

[@shadybanks8625]

Good video, I like the way you had it edited with on the water footage. One of my tips would be to try different sizes of baits too. The Big TRD has put some big ones in the boat for me.

[@iLL4ReaLDeal]

I buy those big trd and cut them in a regular size and that left one not as long but a lil larger which has put many fish on my line

[@nickp8373]

The Ned rig sucks for me. Zero confidence in it. Plus it’s always getting snagged.

[@phatpakbaits]

I’ll add one more technique. Use the lightest head as possible (1/64th if possible) medium lite rod with 20lb or less braid to 4 or 6lb floro. Cast it out let it fall on semi slack line, watching your line as it falls , begin reeling and raise your rod to about 2 o clock, stop reeling and leave your rod in place . This will make the bait rise off the bottom begin swimming towards you, than as the reeling stops the bait will pendulum back towards you and fall to the bottom. Rinse and repeat . It’s a swimming and drop technique. Very similar to what u had mentioned but slightly different. I got this off john crews on bass u .

[@BassFishingHQ]

Bingo!

[@bluesdawg8014]

With a boat, yes Methods from the bank would be cool Los Angeles

[@mirsadmemic5863]

People complaining to you tube about your fake unequate information

[@johnthomas5806]

Winter fishing for pike? droppinf straight down in an ice hole and twitching the rig?

[@eaglespetty]

Caught 5 or 6 yesterday dropping a Ned Rig into weed beds.

[@robertdavidson2078]

I went to bass pro and the guy in the fishing section introduced me to the ned rig

[@nathancarera1197]

I like the Ned jig head with a swimbait. Or Ned it. Very versatile

[@hejgoranfesdu]

its ther hottest thing in sweden for perch ritght now.. never fails

[@Schnazola]

First mistake: Putting the hook in the rod guide. ;-)

[@ryandoll3684]

I’m from southwest Ohio and as you know the Ned is deadly in our river for the smallies 🔥 I started making some ewg neds with a modified mold and they are my juice 🎣 You have a good channel man keep up the good vids bud

[@TrungVu-nq9en]

How do you make them I would like to do same for the ewg hooks Thanks

[@joshholt6496]

Tiny child’s rig is a good way to vertically fish these

[@spencermosley9655]

Tactical Bassin said a ned rig was originally made to swim!!!

[@FatJeffStew]

Swimming a ned with a yo-yo retrieve and treating it like a vertical jig is great for suspended/schooled fish. 110% agree with you on lightweight and the snapping method. For rivers with current... Take a weight where its JUST enough to keep bottom contact and let the current scoot it down stream! My favorite little trick I saw on YT several years back... Add some maribou to the end of a ned rig!

[@kelseyloushin1343]

Thx for the clarity in your videos, your a great communicator. Such helpful ideas!

[@allenwilhelm7799]

I wonder how good these guys are without fish finders?

[@jeffhayde4665]

Funny I've been fishing a 3 in senko on a 1/16 worm nose head for nearly 20 years

[@steveheck7754]

Used to fish the little charlie brewer slider worms like that.

[@MrMadhouse70]

Tell me the diffrens between ned rig and shakyhead. I think it is almost the same but i get more fish on shaky head with a crawfish bait.

[@haydenh.2533]

The shakey heads are weedless I think is what makes the difference and a generally different style of head

[@timjones6637]

Awesome 👍🏻.. which fish line is useful??

[@jamesfabianski4923]

I have tried a bunch of different super glues and they tend to dry up on me. Which brand name do you recommend? Love your channel and thank you for helping others and myself on our bass journey.

[@johne4220]

I saw others recommend Loctite Gel Control, so started using it. Works well, doesn't drip, container doesn't seem to dry out as fast as some others.

[@ZZ430T56]

Ned rig style bait works great on a drop shot too.

[@rodroyal1779]

Drag it on the bottom here and you'll get a ball of snot.

[@slimjimphatt9238]

I'm not taking advice from a guy who hangs his hooks on a rod eye. 🤡🤡🤡

[@BassFishingHQ]

Thanks for watching and commenting anyways!!

[@CHOPERUS23]

Hook them weedless and use a weighted hook.

[@strichards5337]

Must I only use TRDs with my ned rigs or can I use cheaper stick baits (Yum, Big Game, etc.) and simply cut in 1/2 a traditional 6” stick bait?

[@mopesrus7266]

Works for me

[@jujuvuvu2998]

Did someone win the give away already?

[@dandacosta8321]

Just a tip take a floating trick worm you’ll catch bigger fish I promis and get the Xmas shroom jigs that say pro hook so you can actually set the hook and reel em in

[@dandacosta8321]

Xmas hahah Zman

[@kevinledford8260]

Youve blown up since 25k subs!

[@lil_bootbassin5607]

Great info. I have actually been setting my neds up needless or sort of a Texas rig style to keep from hanging. Works great. Thanks for the informative vids

[@bartman5430]

Yep..ive been doin that for sometime

[@hacitahir6897]

hook in the ring of the rod. first mistake 😅

[@ItMeDwaeji]

1st tip is not putting your hook on the eyelet?