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 !!!

I'm waiting for Randy's wife to bust the back door open screaming where tf is my nail polish!?

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 vid Randy! Don Iovino is still around. I'm friends with him on fb. He's 83 and still going strong.

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!

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

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

Congrats on 60K and thanks for continuing to provide quality content. Love this channel.

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.

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!

Great stuff their Randy ! I really enjoy listening to you about these old techniques that still produce. Thanks and keep up the great work.

Thanks a bunch!!! I always learn from you!!!

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 .

Wow, pushing 100k now. You're growing the channel pretty quickly! Well done!

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.

I rig a 4” ring worm and it works great with this application also!

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.

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.👍❤️😎🎣

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!

Thanks for all the great tips. Congrats on 60k , been watching since the teens. Lots of great info 😊

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!

Can't wait to try the weenie rig. Thanks!

The term weenie just brings the kid out of me. Great video 👍

Thank you Randy that is a good looking set up. Can’t wait to try it

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!!

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.

I fished with Don. Great guy and great fishermen.

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.

Randy, thank you for the info. That is kind of a new one to me. Much appreciated!

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

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

that's a great little rig thanks for sharing

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.

Congrats on 60k

Congrats on the 60K mark. Next step, 100,000

I made my buddy mad with this one last week! Definitely a bite getter in tough conditions. Thanks Randy!

You just gave my secret away. I’ve been doing this for thirty years. It can catch numbers and big ones 😮

Lol I use that alot and have had great success with it, another great video.

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!

The Canadians dominated Cherokee!! Good tip, thanks

I had that video. Actually got to talk toDon in the 80s/90s

Loved it , I used that rig on my centipedes too

Thanks for sharing

Been doing this for decades. I didn’t know it was called the weenie rig lol. Now I know 👍🏽

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 💦

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?

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.

I would also sometimes put a bead on it weightless to get more casting distance.

Did you use a bobber stopper or maybe barrel swivel somewhere above the weight?

I heard Aaron Martens talk about Don livenio, about finesse fishing out west. And I've never heard of this rig Randy.

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.

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?

Side hooking vs in the middle, it doesn’t affect the action being on the side?

Thanks for sharing this but how do you fish it?

Got any tips for fishing with young kids? What would be the best way to give them a good experience fishing

Do tungsten weights make a good sound with a glass bead like brass does?

Hey Randy, what’s your thoughts on a pro entering local bass tournaments? Just curious as to how you see it.

Randy, do you think that there is a significant difference between glass beads vs plastic beads for this technique?

Based on the title on wondered if you were gonna talk about this. :-)

50-75 bass a day? Dang, I'm happy with one or two.

Fish it on spinning rod?

My nickname is Weenie. 😂

What size hook are u using?

I’ve been fishing smaller tubes like that for years.

Thanks for the info Randy…do you prefer glass or plastic beads for this setup???

When I cut a worm off I take a cig lighter and melt the end to round the edges

lets have it!

No way that’s a Texas rig

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! 😋

So it's a Texas rig. Nice

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

Here’s the Don Ionivo “Doodling” video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/prCCjZeCqrLaeKs.html

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!