Most Bank Anglers Fish a Texas Rig Swimbait Wrong (Do This Instead)
🎣 A Texas Rig isn’t just for worms and creature baits. Put a swimbait on it and you’ve got one of the most versatile weedless presentations a bank angler can carry.
In this episode of Getting It Done Fishing, I’m on the water breaking down how I fish a Texas Rig Swimbait from the bank and the different retrieves I use based on bass behavior, conditions and strike zone.
One of the biggest advantages for bank anglers is simplicity.
You probably already have:
✅ Bullet weights
✅ EWG or worm hooks
✅ Paddle-tail swimbaits
Put them together and you’ve got a presentation that can be fished deep, slow, through vegetation and right along the bottom without adding a bunch of extra tackle to your bag.
In this video, I’m breaking down:
✅ How to rig a Texas Rig Swimbait correctly
✅ Why I prefer an EWG hook
✅ How different bullet weights change the presentation
✅ Slow rolling along the bottom
✅ Popping the swimbait and letting the paddle tail fall
✅ Retrieve + pause
✅ Crawling and dragging
✅ Mixing multiple retrieves for finicky bass
✅ Picking up the pace when bass are willing to chase
✅ Working hydrilla, grass lines, lily pads and cattails
✅ Matching your retrieve to the bass’s strike zone
The biggest reason I love this rig?
It’s WEEDLESS.
A traditional swimbait can be difficult to work through thick vegetation. Texas rigging it lets me get that swimbait down into hydrilla and grass, pop it free and create an erratic movement that can trigger reaction bites.
And remember:
Don’t use the same retrieve every time you fish it.
Small strike zone? Slow down. Pause. Pop it. Keep it there.
Bass willing to chase? Pick up the pace and cover water.
Heavy vegetation? Work it through the grass and pop it free.
Read the conditions. Understand the behavior. Determine the strike zone. Then choose the presentation.
Behavior ➜ Pattern ➜ Presentation ➜ Lure
🎣 Helping Bank Anglers Become Better Bass Anglers.
YES SIR!
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