Chicken Rig

[OkieLure]

Anyone try it, yet? Successful?

[Alumicraft145]

What is a chicken rig??

[krindgen]

Ike did a piece on it, kinda like a Neko to me I guess. Neko certainly works in the spring for me.

[FryDog62]

I experimented with the Chicken Rig a few years ago when it seemed the bigger bass were in the weedline and keying in on larger profile, slower moving presentations. This one is a 7 inch worm with VMC skirt on it. It worked okay, but honestly I don’t know if it’s any more weedless than using a weedless VMC hook Neko style. I’ll use a T-rig or jig if I need to throw more directly into the junk.

[Pagregss]

Been using it for the last two seasons to fish docks. I use the Decoy 128 neko hook. Works very well.

[OkieLure]

Might add it to my arsenal this next season.

[DrewFlu33]

I think it'd really pay dividends around truly snaggy stuff like newer laydowns and bushes. I've thrown it and caught some fish on it, but have kind of set it aside. I mostly fish around vegetation, not wood, and found that I'm able to work a Neko through weedlines just as cleanly with a weedless-style Neko hook and don't have to fiddle around with trying to rig it "Chicken" style. I have a hard time getting it rigged consistently that way, for whatever reason.

[Walkabout7781]

Tried it with an EWG hook and had no luck keeping the hook in place.

I ended up rigging the Zoom Trick Worm with the same 3/0 EWG in the "head" and a decking screw in the "tail" end and caught a couple of fish on it...so I dubbed it the "Dumb Bass Rig". It came through rip-rap and reed beds well. Did it on 20 lb braid straight to the hook. The worm floated the hook fine, the braid floated, and the tail was easy enough to keep on the bottom while allowing some "jiggling" to attract fish.