"NEKO RIG" . . . not NED RIG . . . anyone ever try it on TRL? any success? see VIDEO below . . .

[Fish24/7]

 the brown weights in the top bag are vertical with the screw keeper at the top

 

[mjk86]

Whats the advantage in using this vs a traditional shakey head or other jig?  Less snags?

[Fish24/7]

so far I have not found any advantages. just another way to show a bass a worm 

[abkeenan]

9 minutes ago, mjk86 said:

Whats the advantage in using this vs a traditional shakey head or other jig?  Less snags?

The only advantage that I could see is if bed fishing (which I don't do) or trying to keep the bait in one place without actually moving it. You can just sit there and shake it and give it a shimmy while remaining in place without pulling the bait away from the target.

[Fish24/7]

12 minutes ago, abkeenan said:

The only advantage that I could see is if bed fishing (which I don't do) or trying to keep the bait in one place without actually moving it. You can just sit there and shake it and give it a shimmy while remaining in place without pulling the bait away from the target.

can do the same with a ds rig, use a 3" tag end

tournament fishing Neko put a few bedding fish in the boat just as you described using it, 

toss it out get it to the bed/target shake shake shake

[abkeenan]

1 minute ago, Fish24/7 said:

can do the same with a ds rig, use a 3" tag end

Right. Which is basically what the Neko Rig is...kinda. Anytime the tag end/hook is above the weight you can achieve not moving the bait which is attached to the hook and not the weight.

[dtrs5kprs]

With a light enough weight, buoyant worm, line dialed in, etc., you can also shake it on the way down. Guess that is the biggest difference.

It is another spinoff of the old Florida Rig. The new up north craze Mendota Rig is another. The old FL rig was the original source of the screw in bullet weights. Originally they did not have the tube for the line. You screwed the weight in the end, and TX rigged it backwards, more or less. Guys who flipped started putting the tubes in so they weren't fishing "against" the swimming tails of Gambler and Culprit worms. Still have some of the originals I bought at Okeechobee in about 1987. Brauer made the new one famous by winning the Classic with it.

 

[mjk86]

as the saying goes, there are many ways to skin a cat, or rig a jig n worm, or something like that.

[wareaglecamo]

seems like a real advantage would be by having the hook located at the midway point along the length instead of down by the weight (i.e. shakey head), the tail of the bait would never have a chance to lay on the bottom . . . regardless whether the bait is "buoyant" or not . . . you also could have the same result by weighting the tail-end of a plastic craw or creature bait and hooking the bait through the thorax . . . this would always keep the pincers or tentacles of the bait up in a defensive posture

[Bill Babler]

So 8 pound test and a 6'6" medium rod are finesse?  Like the worm, but he has no idea what finesse is.  He needs to give 5 pound test on a 7' ML rod fishing a 1/16 oz. Ned a fling.  Or if he wants to get really crazy he can always throw a float-n-fly.  Now that is finesse.