This has to be your next question, right? If so, I have a great answer for you; fish it however you want! I’m not being a smart Alek here; I really mean it. I have personally caught fish on a Ned rig fishing it slow like a football jig, hopping like a shaky head, fishing vertically with sonar, and reeling like a swimbait – so the options are endless!
The most important factors of how to fish it are in the equipment used because of its light weight. You always need to be sure to throw it on a light to medium-light action rod with light fluorocarbon line like 6- to 8-pound test. By having this type of set up you can guarantee contact with the lure and know when a fish bites.
The options of plastics to throw on a Ned rig have become overwhelming recently, but I stick with three main shapes and these are a minnow, crawdad, and stick bait shape. The three I utilize are the YUM Ned Minnow, Ned Craw, and Ned Dinger. All three of these options are made from unique plastic that floats so it sits right in front of bass provoking them to bite. Choose colors that match water clarity with whatever plastic you pick, it’s good to keep it simple with green pumpkins in clear and black/blue in dirty. I like to be as subtle as possible with my rigs on color, and I always pair them up with an 1/8-ounce mushroom head jig. That size allows me to fish in almost all water depths if fished slow enough while still maintaining contact with the bottom.
Fish this little unassuming set up any way you want, just like I mentioned earlier, but focus on areas highly concentrated with bass such as points, humps, ledges, brush piles and spawning pockets in the spring.
You can do very well with this rig any time of the year, and it’s downright the best choice for getting kids into fishing or for putting someone in the position to pull the trigger on a lot of bass!
