Works like a mini-Hoover, vacuuming up bass from banks passed up by most anglers. At one point last season, I caught nearly 900 bass in just over 60 days, 85 percent of which came on the Ned Rig. It's not for everybody, but it does work.
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Tried it and tried it and never caught a fish doing it. The bluegills love to "jackhammer" it, however.
Posted by: Carl S. | December 10, 2014 at 08:22 AM
Nice! Thanks for this. Brings back deeply etched memories for me too. My first real consistent success in bass fishing came when I adopted Charlie Brewer's methods, and ran with it from there tying my own jigs, and adopting various plastics parts. I loved the Beetle-spins too, and adopted the clip-on overhead spinners into my UL jig boxes. Then there was Dan Gapen's river slipping and his Ugly Bug jig. Just great stuff there.
The "Ned-Rig" I'd come to on my own back in the late 70s -unaware of the Kansas anglers. The rig was an obvious adaptation to make for a young cash-strapped angler who couldn't throw away his broken plastics. I found just the heads of worms -the simplest of grubs -very effective on SM and LM alike. Yes, I caught lots of little ones, but the little jigs took lots of the bigger ones too. In fact, oftentimes catching bigger ones one after another (and not wading through dinks) had to do with finding them. The big ones (up into the 4lb range) liked those little jigs too.
Thanks for the memories.
Posted by: Paul Roberts | December 10, 2014 at 09:42 PM