the deadly nedly 2024
EWREX reply :
the ned rig. it has 100% become my new confidence bait this year. this past weekends tournament was a tough day on the water, fresh post spawn bluebird skies and not much wind. got a few random bites for the first 5-6 hours, all on different baits. jig, 2.8 keitech, and a tube. finally put everything down and threw out the z-man big trd on a lifted jigs 1/8oz. weedless ned head. BAM, 4 pounder. BAM 2.5 pounder. BAM 3.5 pounder. BAM 5.2 pound kicker. i don't know what it is about this stupid bait, but i literally will never not have one tied on.
Armtx77 reply :
A lot of Ned Rig threads the past week...sales of TRD's must have missed their numbers last quarter or some such thing.
tcbass reply :
I tried them once. No luck. May have to try again.
Glaucus reply :
I can take 3 baits to the river and know I'm going to crush the Smallies: KVD 1.5, Whopper Plopper 75/90, and the Ned Rig. Don't hardly need anything else. If I had to pick 1, it would be the Ned Rig. It has caught 4 of my 5 biggest SMB.
EWREX reply :
On 6/11/2019 at 10:34 AM, tcbass said:I tried them once. No luck. May have to try again.
i'd honestly give it a another shot and get confident with it. it took me a while to 100% commit to it, but now there is no looking back lol
Todd2 reply :
I go through phases but this year I've kept two rods close...a Ned Rig and a Split Shot rig with various plastics...been a pretty good year so far.
Hook2Jaw reply :
Welcome to nedresource.com.
On topic, I've thrown it, I've caught on it, but I don't think I'll buy another pack of TRDs. Maybe if we had smallies here or clearer water.
Armtx77 reply :
On 6/12/2019 at 12:48 AM, Hook2Jaw said:Welcome to nedresource.com.
On topic, I've thrown it, I've caught on it, but I don't think I'll buy another pack of TRDs. Maybe if we had smallies here or clearer water.
So I have never Ned Rigged, but I could see myself keeping torn up Senkos and Ned Rigging them.
Is it a technique you just dony prefer or is your AO like mine, where stained water, is about as good as it gets?
The Ned Rig stuff, appears to be more tapered towards clear water and for me, if the fish dont want to hit a Keitech Swim Impact, with a jig head, why would they mess with a Ned?
Im confused on the matter to be honest.
Allen Der reply :
On 6/11/2019 at 9:39 AM, Armtx77 said:A lot of Ned Rig threads the past week...sales of TRD's must have missed their numbers last quarter or some such thing.
they just work well this time of year. hard to beat a ned on a shallow sandy spawning flat. had 3 fish on 3 casts the other day just throwing it out and letting it sit on the bottom
Hook2Jaw reply :
@Armtx77, where I used to fish before I sold my boat would probably be good Ned water, as it's more clear stained. Hell, I've spearfished gar out of that river for fun when I was a teen.
Where I fish now is mostly stained ponds, which is pretty bleh, and most of them have silty or muddy bottoms. I might tie on a Ned for a lake I'm looking at visiting soon in middle Georgia, but for the most part the my available water's visibility is low.
I think a lot of the dislike I have for the Ned is how boring I find throwing that tiny bait around and slowly hopping or dragging it on the bottom.
Plus, I don't have a medium light rod for it yet. I'll still probably mostly drop shot on that rod when I do get to hit clearer water. Overall, I find a weightless stick worm to be my finesse fall back, there's something about the braid twitching when one inhales it that just does it for me where the Ned doesn't.
EWREX reply :
On 6/12/2019 at 12:48 AM, Hook2Jaw said:Welcome to nedresource.com.
On topic, I've thrown it, I've caught on it, but I don't think I'll buy another pack of TRDs. Maybe if we had smallies here or clearer water.
i was on chickamauga 2 weeks ago and had a 30+ fish day fishing a ned rig. my buddy caught an 8 pounder.... on a ned rig. all largemouth.... on a ned rig.
NHBull reply :
.......it's just so booooooooring????
Hook2Jaw reply :
On 6/12/2019 at 1:38 AM, EWREX said:i was on chickamauga 2 weeks ago and had a 30+ fish day fishing a ned rig. my buddy caught an 8 pounder.... on a ned rig. all largemouth.... on a ned rig.
I ain't attacking the rig and won't doubt it's effectiveness, otherwise it wouldn't have taken the fishing world by storm.
I just ain't gonna bore myself to death...on a Ned rig.
Daniel Abram reply :
Well I am a believer. I have been fishing a lake this year in wv. Been there 5 or 6 times this year. Have fished a min of 4 hours. Most days 6 or7 got bites on wacky worms and a rig with craw. But this morning I did what my buddy said. That was tie one a NED RIG. And boy did it work. Caught 3 one was 2.4 lbs other two a lb. Lost several more thanks to lily pads. But two of the ones I caught was in the pads. Just pulled it across the pads and let it fall through the holes. The biggest one I caught by a down tree on the edge of the pads. A lot I did was what I read on here and it worked very well. Made me a believer. I would post pic but says they are too big.
Hook2Jaw reply :
@Daniel Abram, if you're posting from mobile there are tons of pic resizer applications. If you're on your computer, there are tons of websites that will do it for ya.
Pickle_Power reply :
I have some Ned heads and a million soft stick baits. I have not tried the rig yet, because I'm more of a moving bait type of guy. However, I will slow it down if I need to, usually T rigs or a jig/craw. My question is: Is the rig still effective if you are not using the TRD baits? It would be nice to be able to use some of what I already have.
Daniel Abram reply :
On 6/12/2019 at 3:11 AM, Hook2Jaw said:@Daniel Abram, if you're posting from mobile there are tons of pic resizer applications. If you're on your computer, there are tons of websites that will do it for ya.
I have tried to resize them but no luck. Going to see if my daughter can get them uploaded
Hook2Jaw reply :
On 6/12/2019 at 3:15 AM, Daniel Abram said:I have tried to resize them but no luck. Going to see if my daughter can get them uploaded
Heck yeah. I look forward to fish pics.
Allen Der reply :
On 6/12/2019 at 3:11 AM, Pickle_Power said:I have some Ned heads and a million soft stick baits. I have not tried the rig yet, because I'm more of a moving bait type of guy. However, I will slow it down if I need to, usually T rigs or a jig/craw. My question is: Is the rig still effective if you are not using the TRD baits? It would be nice to be able to use some of what I already have.
yes, 1/2 a senko or knockoff stick worm works fine
Pickle_Power reply :
On 6/12/2019 at 5:15 AM, Allen Der said:yes, 1/2 a senko or knockoff stick worm works fine
Thanks. Your user name made me LOL
Fishin' Fool reply :
On 6/12/2019 at 1:14 AM, Armtx77 said:So I have never Ned Rigged, but I could see myself keeping torn up Senkos and Ned Rigging them.
Is it a technique you just dony prefer or is your AO like mine, where stained water, is about as good as it gets?
The Ned Rig stuff, appears to be more tapered towards clear water and for me, if the fish dont want to hit a Keitech Swim Impact, with a jig head, why would they mess with a Ned?
Im confused on the matter to be honest.
My personal best day I ever had 5 smallies for 23 pounds. The smallies were feeding up on gobies. I'm trying to uplload a picture of the gobies the smallies were feeding on but it's exceeding my size limit.
Fishin' Fool reply :
The gobies they were eating. Trd worm matched the hatch.
Glaucus reply :
On 6/12/2019 at 1:14 AM, Armtx77 said:So I have never Ned Rigged, but I could see myself keeping torn up Senkos and Ned Rigging them.
Is it a technique you just dony prefer or is your AO like mine, where stained water, is about as good as it gets?
The Ned Rig stuff, appears to be more tapered towards clear water and for me, if the fish dont want to hit a Keitech Swim Impact, with a jig head, why would they mess with a Ned?
Im confused on the matter to be honest.
I fish them with a fast and eratic swim hop retrieve at a river dam where the water is made into white rapids and is otherwise muddy, and that consistently catches big bass when my preferred method of running a KVD Squarebill through it does not work. The Ned Rig is more incredible than most people even realize.
It's best to use ElaZtech plastics. They make the Ned Rig completely different from a chopped up stick bait.
Bluebasser86 reply :
Most of the waters where the man himself is from are pretty stained (Ned refers to any body of water he can see the trolling motor head as "Kansas clear"), and very few of the lakes he fishes have smallmouth. I fish it all year round in the very stained power plant lake I fish often that has no smallmouth and is known for its big largemouth. They're very pressured and seem to more readily eat smaller baits. Catches lots of keepers, which have to be 18" on that lake. I'm using a 1/16oz head with a TRD too.
EWREX reply :
On 6/12/2019 at 2:04 AM, NHBull said:.......it's just so booooooooring????
i don't care how boring it is when i'm trying to put fish in the boat! :D
Daniel Abram reply :
Went today and tried everything else and wouldn't you know it. Bam. just got one and lost one in the pads. And my fishing partner catches small mouth one them all the time on south holston
RealtreeByGod reply :
Does anyone have success with something other than stick worms? I've tried Hula Stickz, TRD Crawz, Streakz, and XCite Raptor Tail Chunks and nothing produces as well as a regular-ol' TRD does.
Glaucus reply :
On 6/13/2019 at 6:04 AM, RealtreeByGod said:Does anyone have success with something other than stick worms? I've tried Hula Stickz, TRD Crawz, Streakz, and XCite Raptor Tail Chunks and nothing produces as well as a regular-ol' TRD does.
I have success with the CrawZ, but there's nothing like a regular TRD. I was really excited when the CrawZ came out, and they do work pretty well, but not nearly as well as the TRD, so I'm not sure I'll be getting more. I use the CrawZ on Bitsy Bug Jigs and they work great for that too, but I've got a TON of Baby Rage Craws to go through. When they aren't particularly better than other options, I'm not sure what the point is.
Bluebasser86 reply :
On 6/13/2019 at 6:04 AM, RealtreeByGod said:Does anyone have success with something other than stick worms? I've tried Hula Stickz, TRD Crawz, Streakz, and XCite Raptor Tail Chunks and nothing produces as well as a regular-ol' TRD does.
Just tonight actually. Dirty water, 20+mph winds, 1/16oz head, #2 hook, no smallmouth in the lake (GASP!!). 
I really like the TRD MinnowZ (formerly RainZ Minnow), and the Hula StickZ has times when it will badly outfish the TRD.
Pickle_Power reply :
All this Ned talk gave me the notion to try the rig out on the local river on my lunch break today. 3 walleyes in about 20 minutes, but no bass. That was totally unexpected, but still awesome!
Allen Der reply :
On 6/13/2019 at 6:04 AM, RealtreeByGod said:Does anyone have success with something other than stick worms? I've tried Hula Stickz, TRD Crawz, Streakz, and XCite Raptor Tail Chunks and nothing produces as well as a regular-ol' TRD does.
The TRD ticklerz has been good for me
Smalls reply :
This stupid thing just works. I won’t even pretend to know why. I actually went out and bought my first fairy wand I’ve owned in 6 years just to try this d**n thing. Took me a minute to figure out the hookset on it, but it just flat out catches em. I’ve caught spots, largies and smallies on it.
A-Jay reply :
On 6/15/2019 at 4:09 PM, Smalls said:This stupid thing just works. I won’t even pretend to know why. I actually went out and bought my first fairy wand I’ve owned in 6 years just to try this d**n thing. Took me a minute to figure out the hookset on it, but it just flat out catches em. I’ve caught spots, largies and smallies on it.
FYI ~
When in the hands of a skilled magician, those fairy wands can produce some real magic.
YMMV
A-Jay
Russ E reply :
On 6/13/2019 at 6:04 AM, RealtreeByGod said:Does anyone have success with something other than stick worms? I've tried Hula Stickz, TRD Crawz, Streakz, and XCite Raptor Tail Chunks and nothing produces as well as a regular-ol' TRD does.
Last fall I met Ned on a local lake. He suggested the finesse shadz.
Some days it outproduces the standard TRD. The green pumpkin works really well on some of the smaller local lakes.
It really shines in cold water. It does not take much to get its thin tail moving.
Smalls reply :
On 6/15/2019 at 9:37 PM, A-Jay said:FYI ~
When in the hands of a skilled magician, those fairy wands can produce some real magic.
YMMV
A-Jay
They do. I’ve had one in my hand for the majority of the year since I bought one. And I’m considering buying another ????
ChrisD46 reply :
On 6/13/2019 at 6:04 AM, RealtreeByGod said:Does anyone have success with something other than stick worms? I've tried Hula Stickz, TRD Crawz, Streakz, and XCite Raptor Tail Chunks and nothing produces as well as a regular-ol' TRD does.
* One of the Big Ten Universities conducted extensive testing by first dropping in a creature bait into a bass tank , measured strike total , removed an appendage , then repeated the test ... In the end a plain stick bait won by a fairly large margin - this test made me a believer in senko style soft stick baits for flipping / pitching (along with a simple ZMan TRD ) used with one of Ned's 6 retrieves .
LCG reply :
Caught this one today. Black and blue TRD crawz with a 1/16oz bullet weight, pegged, with a size 2 gamakatsu ewg hook in some laydowns in a local pond. Didn't have a scale but I would say 4lbs.
Mikeltee reply :
On 6/12/2019 at 2:04 AM, NHBull said:.......it's just so booooooooring????
Agreed. Ill throw one if I have a couple hours with no luck. Ive yet to get skunked on a ned rig but my goodness its boring.
diversity210 reply :
Yeah throwing a ned rig is boring but it produces. I have one tied on my ML spinning setup always because they just work. I dont understand the science behind why they work, but they work. Not only when the bite is tough. I will even throw a ned rig on good days if Im sitting over a flat featureless muddy bottom. Seems a wacky rigged stick bait always produces for me as well. Different presentation than the ned rig, but it produces and its a little more fun to fish than a ned rig. TRD's can be a bit expensive so I am not beyond cutting a yum dinger in half and fishing it on a mushroom head
Hillbilly Bennett reply :
I have started using the Ned quite a bit this year and I have caught several bass on the Crawz. They work very well for smallmouth. I’ve also taken to pitching senkos and Strike King Ochos around laydowns and in grass over the past few years. For me this technique works very well when the bite is tough or when the water is gin clear, which is almost always the case here in east KY. Also, to me, there is nothing boring about catching fish. Senkos and the Ned may not require a ton of action but they flat out land the bass. Who doesn’t like to get big blow ups on topwater and bone jarring strikes with reaction baits? Those are fun ways to catch fish and I’m awful about wanting to throw a topwater all day to just see a blow up but I’m definitely not above using the finesse stuff to catch fish.
fin reply :
I was skeptical at first, but I broke down the other day at the bait store and bought some Z-man® Finesse TRD™ with ElaZtech® and a pack of Finesse ShroomZ™ jigheads. When I got home and opened the bag, there was a 12-pound bass in there! Man, these things really produce!
Fishin' Fool reply :
On 6/15/2019 at 9:37 PM, A-Jay said:FYI ~
When in the hands of a skilled magician, those fairy wands can produce some real magic.
YMMV
A-Jay
Wow almost a 7 pounder. When do I get to come fish Menderchuck Lake with you?
A-Jay reply :
On 7/8/2019 at 8:34 AM, Fishin' Fool said:Wow almost a 7 pounder. When do I get to come fish Menderchuck Lake with you?
Yea - I'm going tomorrow morning - early.
Meet me at the ramp right before first light - @0445.
Bring Cash, a couple bags of deer Jerky, a gallon of red Kool-Aid, some Megastrike and a Blindfold.
and No Peeking !
A-Jay
Fishin' Fool reply :
On 7/8/2019 at 9:35 AM, A-Jay said:Yea - I'm going tomorrow morning - early.
Meet me at the ramp right before first light - @0445.
Bring Cash, a couple bags of deer Jerky, a gallon of red Kool-Aid, some Megastrike and a Blindfold.
and No Peeking !
A-Jay
A little too early for me tmrw. I imagine the summer is more difficult to find one of those big ones than the spring/fall. I'd love to hook into one of those 6 pound plus tanks. Your videos are great though, very informative.
A-Jay reply :
On 7/8/2019 at 9:47 AM, Fishin' Fool said:A little too early for me tmrw. I imagine the summer is more difficult to find one of those big ones than the spring/fall. I'd love to hook into one of those 6 pound plus tanks. Your videos are great though, very informative.
Yup - I don't think I've ever landed anything over 5 in July ~ ever.
Big Fish are spread out deep, tough to find & even harder to catch.
But it's nice to fish in the 75 degree sun and not freeze.
Expectations for big or many brown ones tomorrow are not high.
A-Jay
IdahoAngler reply :
It produces fish and works very well but I think they main reason I keep one tied on is because that ElazTech material the trd's are made of lasts so much longer than a senko.
ChrisD46 reply :
On 6/12/2019 at 1:42 PM, Bluebasser86 said:Most of the waters where the man himself is from are pretty stained (Ned refers to any body of water he can see the trolling motor head as "Kansas clear"), and very few of the lakes he fishes have smallmouth. I fish it all year round in the very stained power plant lake I fish often that has no smallmouth and is known for its big largemouth. They're very pressured and seem to more readily eat smaller baits. Catches lots of keepers, which have to be 18" on that lake. I'm using a 1/16oz head with a TRD too.
*Kansas (and surrounding area) guys rule with the Midwest Finesse tactics (i.e. Ned Rig) ... I'm paying attention how they expand and push the envelop with the concept / application beyond a 2.75" TRD and 1/16th oz. mushroom head jig ? Occasionally there are good jig heads and soft plastics coming out from various suppliers - however for me my money goes to Mike (S.O.) for Morel jig heads and Z-Man Elaztec soft plastics ...
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