“Weenie Rigging”…The Hottest New Finesse Technique In Bass Fishing
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- Randy shows everybody how to use and rig the weenie rig… which is one of the long held secrets among finesse fisherman in the country…#finessefishing #bassfishing #fishthemoment #fishing #bass
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Randy is the only man that could get me carrying nail polish in the boat. 😂
Randy , I Thank You so Much !!! I am really getting Juiced Out on all this good Bass Fishing Punch you are serving up to us !! This is Good Stuff !! I caught my First Bass the other day on the Splitshot-Peeds Rig you gave to us !! I was really tickled to catch it too !! I Sincerely Thank You for helping us older guys trying to get back into Bass Fishing again !!!
Always great info randy. Thank you for always sharing. You and your channel have really helped me and your growing on me, genuine people usually do. Good bless you and your family.
Great stuff their Randy ! I really enjoy listening to you about these old techniques that still produce. Thanks and keep up the great work.
Randy, thank you for all the tips. Your knowledge, wisdom, and experience acts as a true defining moment in making all of us who watch your videos better fisherman. Thank you Randy for sharing!
Great tip Randy. I grew up in California and caught hundreds of bass on weenie worms rigged this way and on the split shot rig you shared a few days ago. Back in the late 80’s and early 90’s Pine Flat Lake was loaded with spots and you could really catch them on those rigs. I move to Texas 20 years ago and it works here too.
Congrats on 60K and thanks for continuing to provide quality content. Love this channel.
Thanks a bunch!!! I always learn from you!!!
I've been watching and following every video for awhile now Randy I'm a younger angler but your channel and mental Monday's have really helped me out at work and home thanks man
Thx man!
I have some of these red and black glass beads and I use these for when I make my own in line spinners and they are great but this setup looks great!! I will have to apply this and thanks for this information Randy!!
Thanks for all the great tips. Congrats on 60k , been watching since the teens. Lots of great info 😊
I remember back in the early 1990's when this came out they called it the green weenie even though you could get different colors and laminated colors they had a real thin salt on them almost like flour. I bought some and used them on Lake of the Ozarks. The brown and blue one drove the Spots nuts. I used it on bluff points and docks on bluffs. Big fun!
Thank you Randy that is a good looking set up. Can’t wait to try it
Great tip Randy. Another cool thing about that rig is you can peg the bead up the line and make a light split shot rig real quick.
Ever since I saw Matt Stefan’s chatter bait tip the other day I’ve been weary of all new bait tips lol. He had me going
Have you seen the new berkley power glove for noodling?
@@jtotherog yes it’s hilarious
Randy, thank you for the info. That is kind of a new one to me. Much appreciated!
Got skunked again today , I had to fish my secondary location. I know I'm going to catch a 6 ,7, mabee 8 pounder soon. Between you and Matt I'm loaded with great techniques. Thanks .
Don Iovino taught me this back in the late 80’s here in sunny SoCal on Castaic lake! The original term for the set was Doodling with a brass and glass set up! Don had us using a brass painted 3/16 oz and red faceted glass bead very important, we used his signature Don Iovino hand poured green weenie colored worms! Back then we used it on a 6ft medium Phenix rod with 6# Trilene but today you can definitely use 8# fluorocarbon and be fine. Deadly technique on suspended bass and SoCal highly pressured lakes!
Doesn’t the rig sink how’s it catch suspended bass?
@@isaacjones3198 yes it does sink but a 3/16 oz weight made of brass sinks very slowly not to mention the glass bead with a hand poured work which are not as dense as modern poured plastics. Also this would be a technique that would be used over 60 ft of water say fishing suspended bass in 25-45ft of water.
I remember Don's technique as well. I recall a brass spacer being around the knot, then the glass bead and then the weight. It would clack as it was jigged up and down through the suspended fish. Randy, showed it without the brass spacer, but still would work. The original technique used that spacer to protect the knot from the beat weakening it. I actually still have Don's book on Doodling I picked up 25 years ago. Only spoke with him a couple times on the phone, but his advice put me on some big fish in Mexico that's for sure.
@@chrism3150 yes I’m his later iterations in the early 90’s he added the brass spacer that helped with knot abrasion and more clacking sound.
Great vid Randy! Don Iovino is still around. I'm friends with him on fb. He's 83 and still going strong.
that's a great little rig thanks for sharing
Can't wait to try the weenie rig. Thanks!
Wow, pushing 100k now. You're growing the channel pretty quickly! Well done!
I rig a 4” ring worm and it works great with this application also!
I tend to occasionally check the number of subscribers that channels have that I subscribe to. There is no competition your is by far the fastest growing. I think you were about 19k subs when I subscribed and it has grown fast. It is simple just keep doing what you are doing., it is working very well!
Thx Wayne!
I'm waiting for Randy's wife to bust the back door open screaming where tf is my nail polish!?
Lol
She is a power lifter, he didn't take that chance and get hers, he bought it at DG.😂
Kaline’s was the first worm I saw that was fished like this other than the Charlie Brewer slider worm.. I liked kaline’s especially two colors. One was clear with black, blue, red, and silver slivers of tinsel in it and the other color I liked was half chartreuse half electric grape. I would rig it like that, or with no weight and fished it like a soft jerkbait
Randy I have a video I just uploaded where I used your floating worm set up and went out crushed a bunch of trinity river fish on my paddle board. It was so fun. Thanks for the help/advice!
czcams.com/video/oXkQ-m9O638/video.html
Lol I use that alot and have had great success with it, another great video.
I fished with Don. Great guy and great fishermen.
Im in NC, and will definitely try it at Norman! As always, I enjoy your videos...If you are ever in NC, Id really like to meet you, fish, with, or whatever!
Thanks for sharing
Loved it , I used that rig on my centipedes too
The term weenie just brings the kid out of me. Great video 👍
This seems similar to a new rig out of japan/Korea called the free rig its the same but with a casting weight or dropshot weight the weight hits the bottom and the lure slowly falls vertically down to the bottom
Randy, could you elaborate more on how to fish or work the "weenie rig"? Seems like a technique that could work for us locally. Thanks for the tips.
Your the only other person I've seen do a skin hook on the side. I use to miss or should say lost a lot of fish on tubes then I started skin hooking them on the side just like you did with this worm and my hook ups went way up on tubes. Semper Fi from an old Marine
I tried this rig the other day and caught about 10 bass and lost about 10 bass. I did not have my sinkers painted red but I did that yesterday and will go out in the next few days and give that completed rig a shot. Thanks for the tip not to brag but my partner only caught two fish all day.
Congrats on 60k
I would also sometimes put a bead on it weightless to get more casting distance.
Randy now that the fish are shallow I am going with monofilament. It’s cheaper and more cost effective. It is more user friendly on spinning reels. It is also a good choice for crank baits and top waters.👍❤️😎🎣
Nothing wrong with Mono I just prefer Fluoro for the sensitivity and low stretch but those go hand in hand
@@The_Bass_Stunters and visability ...
You missed the J on your name.What do you do with the money you save? Bet you do not put it in the Bank.
I use mono also, when throwing cranks and buzzbaits. No need for sensitivity on those moving baits. I actually land more bass on both. Especially buzzbaits.
@@randyhart3436 l can't my lures as l can get much more constance than throwing!
I think the original “weenie worm” was manufactured by “Kalin” in California. Their grubs and weenie worms were huge in the late 80’s early 90’s. I’ve still got some due to my fishing hiatus. I’ll be breaking them out this year. Thanks for the glass bead tip and red painted sinker.
Definitely Kalin Plastics was a big player here in SoCal in the 80’s and early 90’s. Don was pouring his own worms as well which were far superior. But I loved the Kalins reaper on a split shot rig. Still got some myself.
@@robbogin482 I still have a few bags of reapers. I’ll be breaking them out this year. Caught some surprisingly big fish on that little bait!
Hey Randy, what’s your thoughts on a pro entering local bass tournaments? Just curious as to how you see it.
Don taught us how to fineness light line an small hooks ,reapers an small plastics were the bomb.also his 2 an 3 color baits , set the stage for success with this technique.add Randy’s mods do the job for me on deep water ledges in cold water 💦
Did you use a bobber stopper or maybe barrel swivel somewhere above the weight?
I made my buddy mad with this one last week! Definitely a bite getter in tough conditions. Thanks Randy!
Thanks for sharing this but how do you fish it?
Congrats on the 60K mark. Next step, 100,000
Hey Randy, on the Livescope discussion. If Bass and MLF made forward facing sonar against the rules in their tournaments, what about practice? People could still locate prime areas with it days before a tournament. Yes fish move but some spots are always holding fish. It's kinda like instead of practicing without having to fish and shake them off. It's a way to find fish without having to catch them during practice. So if they did vote to not use in tournaments how would it be regulated for practice, because that would actually still give someone a little edge vs the guy that has to actually throw a bent hook so he can shake them off to see if fish are holding in a spot? Hope I made sense, what do you think, and how would they control that?
I heard Aaron Martens talk about Don livenio, about finesse fishing out west. And I've never heard of this rig Randy.
Do tungsten weights make a good sound with a glass bead like brass does?
Sounds like a specific type of Texas rig to me. New? A pro at a seminar sponsored by Glory Hole Sports (don’t snicker, it’s a Gold Rush mining term) in Angels Camp taught this method. That must’ve been 20 years ago. I’d use it on bottoms lacking rocks.
The short stickworm may be finesse, but the clicking weight and bead put it in the power category. For more noise, I put a steel washer between the bead and weight.
I use whatever color fingernail polish my wife throws out (mostly glittery reddish copper), but I’d like to experiment with red, orange, and chartreuse.
Nothing like Melones and the Glory Hole Tackle shop!! Too bad the drought is sooooooo bad! Was up there last spring and this past February and conditions were terrible, hoping and praying for some late spring rain🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@robbogin482 It’s a quarter mile from the bottom of the Angels Creek boat ramp to the nearest water. On the positive side, I can return periodically to search for my snagged lures. Be end of summer, I’ll be scraping dried feeder streams for dirt to pan for gold.
Been doing this for decades. I didn’t know it was called the weenie rig lol. Now I know 👍🏽
Got any tips for fishing with young kids? What would be the best way to give them a good experience fishing
Side hooking vs in the middle, it doesn’t affect the action being on the side?
Soo, that looks like how I rig my texas rigs? Sometimes I use beads and sometimes not but wouldn't that be the same difference?
You just gave my secret away. I’ve been doing this for thirty years. It can catch numbers and big ones 😮
How do you fish it? He mentions suspended fish but with the weight it seems like this is meant to be something closer to a splitshot or Carolina rig.
I fish it Texas rig. But I also fish it like a finesse Carolina rig. Bout an eight inch leader never going bigger than a 1/16 oz weight. I also use the smaller bead when Texas rigging
I meant 3/16 oz
If you use Iovino worms you won't have any trouble setting the hook with 6# test. They are much softer than the Zoom finesse worm.
Yup 💯 👊👊
The Canadians dominated Cherokee!! Good tip, thanks
I had that video. Actually got to talk toDon in the 80s/90s
Randy, do you think that there is a significant difference between glass beads vs plastic beads for this technique?
Take it from the master Don Iovino you want faceted glass beads, preferably high quality ones that won’t be abrasive too your line on the inside of the bead.
Thanks for the info Randy…do you prefer glass or plastic beads for this setup???
Glass if u can find it
@@randyblaukatintuitive thanks again bud….FYI I found them at cabelas (red 8mm faucet glass) 25pc for $4.49
What size hook are u using?
Fish it on spinning rod?
When I cut a worm off I take a cig lighter and melt the end to round the edges
I’ve been fishing smaller tubes like that for years.
Based on the title on wondered if you were gonna talk about this. :-)
lets have it!
50-75 bass a day?
Dang, I'm happy with one or two.
So it's a Texas rig. Nice
Is there a formula for coming up with names for new techniques or new names for techniques?? Lol, because names like TRD rig, peed rig, and weenie rig seem to follow a naming fad I don’t know about! 😋
My nickname is Weenie. 😂
No way that’s a Texas rig
Here’s the Don Ionivo “Doodling” video czcams.com/video/pJRZ4QELvHw/video.html
I still have a few of the original weenie worms. They work great and they are full of salt.
Why not give Don a plug here for his worms as well Randy he has some of the best worms people probably don’t know about and you get a shit ton of them hand poured too full of salt doodle worms reapers tackle warehouse
Saltwater technique …
You are talking about catching 75 to 100 bass in a day...I'm lucky if there is 75 to 100 bass in the lakes I fish. Lol.
To avoid having red fingernails that match the wife's, you can put the weight on a round toothpick when you paint it. 😉
Now everyone is going to b doing this again 😡...I waited years for people to forget this setup ❗❗❗
by god they got a buzzword name for everything now. i guess ill throw my finesse texas rigs away and go buy all the same stuff again so I can keep up with the trends.
been fishing this rig for over 40 years. not new
Nought not Ought! Like dreadnought means dreadnought nothing. You ought to know better
Another great technique. Looking forward to seeing the 60K sub vid!