Have You Heard of the Neko Rig?

Have you heard of the Neko Rig? It's the newest thing to hit the U.S. from Japan and it's basically a new way to wacky-rig a soft plastic worm. One of my favorite ways to catch them is with a wacky-rigged senko or a flick shake, but this is different. As always with new techniques, the tackle companies are putting out some great new products to use when fishing.

One of these items is a Damiki Neko Sinker, which is really cool and allows you to put a screw-in type weight into one side of the worm so it falls faster on one side. Lunker City also makes a version of the weight. You could also fish it with the weights in both sides to get to deeper water much quicker. I have been hearing about this technique for a few years now after tournaments on deep California waters like Lake Shasta. In fact, Brent Ehrler won the FLW Series event earlier this year with help from this technique.

Bassfan talked about another item the Neko Rig Master, which "makes it much easier to wacky rig finesse plastics, or any other type of plastic bait. The product is a copper screw – much like the screw-locks on hooks – but on top is a rubber section that securely holds a hook. Anglers can therefore screw in the product anywhere on a soft-plastic bait for all sorts of wacky-rig configurations. Plus, there's much less plastic in the hook gap.

Wacky-rig a tube so it falls backward and into cover. Wacky rig a soft-jerkbait so it swims perpendicular to the boat and under docks.Wacky rig a Senko and save serious money without having to mess with rubber O-rings." Bassfan.com

No matter how you fish it, I think technique is going to work!

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