What Is the Floating Free Rig?

The floating free rig? 

Heck what is the free rig?

The "free rig" is a soft bait presentation reportedly developed/used extensively on pressured waters in Japan or Korea and assembled using four components: hook, line, sinker and soft plastic bait:

A close look of the photo above shows how the line is threaded through the open, round eye of a specialized drop shot weight (or like you wound find on your run of the mill bass casting sinker), tied onto the hook and then whatever soft plastic bait is added. 

Though you may think ... why not just used a weighted Texas rig? 

This set-up actually allows the line to move more freely, with less resistance than when running through a bullet weight. Therefore the weight travels faster and more vertically to bottom giving the bait a unique way of descending through the water column.

So how does the floating free rig differ?

It involves a few more components giving the presentation even more unique twists as bass pro Mike "Ike" Iaconelli describes in this next "how to" video...

Think I'm going to try these little rigs this coming season!