A little innovation with one of the oldest bait rigging methods can he highly effective for catching bass under a variety of conditions. Most of us likely started fishing with bait like nightcrawlers by simply tying on a hook, adding a split shot weight a short way up the line then rigging the worm when fishing for anything that bit!
By simply changing the hook style, the split shot rig can be adapted to a wide variety of soft plastic baits sush as the "trick" style worm in the following rigging video from the folks at Big Bite Baits:
I first started fishing soft plastics (a Creme 6" Scoundrel in "Live" color) using a straight shank, light wire worm hook in the spring for bass moving into the shallows as they prepped to spawn.
In later years I've used a similar approach with lizard and hellgrammite baits or changed out the hook for a Gamakatsu split shot hook and nose hooking 4" and 5" grubs with great success!
Your own split shot rig adaptations are just aquick experiment away...
If interested, links to Big Bite Baits, the Creme Scoundrel, Gamakatsu Split Shot hook and grubs are provided in the description above!
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