I see posts fairly frequently saying, "I'm going to flip 3/8oz Texas Rigs... what rod?"  It seems that a lot of people don't take into account the weight of the plastics that they will be throwing when considering a rod.  I got bored one night this last summer and weighed out a bunch of baits I use a lot and thought that some people might find this useful.  I weighted 5 random baits and averaged them.

GYBC Fat Ika          .38oz

Senko 5"          .37oz

Senko 6"          .37oz (weird...)

Senko 7"          .50oz

Senko 10" (Doc Irv)         1.59oz

Keitech Swing Impact Fat 2.8          .12z

Keitech S I F 3.8          .30oz

Keitech S I F 4.8          .39oz

Keitech S I F 5.8          .77oz

Keitech Easy Shiner 4"          .17oz

Keitech Easy Shiner 5"          .34oz

Pit Boss 4"          .34oz

Pit Boss 3"          .19oz

Zoom Ultravibe Speedcraw          .23oz

Kickerfish Tail Slapper 4.8"          .46oz

Kickerfish Tail Slapper 3.8"          .31oz

Zoom 5" Fluke          .29oz

Keitech Sexy Impact 5"          .37oz

Keitech Sexy Impact 4"          .21oz

Zoom Fluke 7"          .81oz

Big Bite Baits Real Deal Craw          .35oz

Keitech Salty Core Stick 5"         .40oz

What no Rage Tail!

Ya ever weigh a 1/4 ounce spinner bait?

What no Rage Tail!

Ya ever weigh a 1/4 ounce spinner bait?

 

Hahaha, I bet it's more than a 1/4oz...

 

Last year on Champlain the Smallies were not biting the really aggressive plastics.  It was the smaller more subtle acting plastics that hammered them, hence no Rage Tail.

It always amazes me how we still find reasons to fondle our gear, even when they're not getting put to good use cause we can't be on the water. Gotta love it

Still confused on the 5 and 6 inch senkos... how?

What no Rage Tail!

Ya ever weigh a 1/4 ounce spinner bait?

 

I have a SK Rocket Shad spinnerbait  rated at 1/4oz and actual is .2409oz its a bit smaller than a regular spinnerbait though.

 

For a couple Rage tails

Anaconda 10"  .5116oz

Thumper 10"    .54205oz

 

My 6" senkos .57658oz

 

For the Ikas, SIF3.8, salty core stick 5" mine are right with your weights webertime

One of you guys weigh a trick worm!

It always amazes me how we still find reasons to fondle our gear, even when they're not getting put to good use cause we can't be on the water. Gotta love it

 

That will make you go blind. 

One of you guys weigh a trick worm!

 

.19227oz  5.451g  WATERMELON SLICE COLOR

.19227oz 5.451g WATERMELON SLICE COLOR

Thank you!

.19227oz 5.451g WATERMELON SLICE COLOR

That's an awesome color in a Fluke

We need to keep this topic going ive always wondered weights so i can properly weight my soft plastic. Seems i went overkill with the speed craw and 3/16 maybe i need to cut it to an 1/8!

and thanks to ts for starting this

Hello,

 

I'll toss in:

 

• Rat-L-Chunk, chunk only: 110 grains, or about 1/4 oz
• Mann's 6" Jelly Worm: 70 grains, or about 3/16 oz
• Yum Dinger, 4": 110 grains, or about 1/4 oz
• Yum worm, 6" action tail: 100 grains, or a little less than 1/4 oz
• Yum 3.25" Crawbug: 145 grains, or about 1/3 oz (I consider it 3/8 oz, 0.33143 oz is the decimal)
• Yum 6" Sallemander:  164 grains, or about 3/8 oz

 

Josh

I'm speechless.

I'm speechless.

 

Amazing, ain't it?

 

Know what else?  Spell check accepts "ain't" as a word.  Take that, teachers!

When I have  3/8oz custom spinnerbait mold made they just used the weight of the lead itself. Most spinnerbaits weigh twice what the package says.

 

Allen

Baby paca - 8.1g

Reg paca - 12g

Paca chunk - 5.2g

10" Ol' monster - 10g

Rage thumper - 5.3g

Rage cut R - 8.7g

Rage craw - 7.7g

D bomb - 10.1g

Rage rooster - 11.5g

Rage shell c - 11.3g

GYB flappin hog - 13g

RI beaver - 10.4g

Sk rodent - 13.8g

Sk dreamshot - 3.9g

Jackall fs 5.8 - 3.5

Zoom finesse - 3.9g

Havoc sub w - 7.1g

Fat Albert - 4.9g

U-vibe worm - 6.5g

SK shim e - 9.3g

SK ocho - 10.1g

Zoom lizard - 6.5g

A conversion chart for the lazy people.

1/16 - 1.7g

1/8 - 3.5g

3/16 - 5.3g

1/4 - 7.0g

3/8 - 10.6

1/2 - 14.1g

3/4 - 21g

1oz - 28g

Something to think about when you say how well your new reel can handle light baits such as a weightless senko. Well it's 3/8oz

Anyone figure out rage tails yet or the zoom lizard

nevermind just need the zoom lizard now

Rage Baby Craw           3.653g         .1288oz

 

Rage Rage Chunk         4.942g         .1743oz

 

Rage Toad                    15.412g        .5436oz

 

Rage Shad                    13.487g        .4757oz

 

SK 7" Finesse worm       5.532g          .1951oz

 

SK Coffee Tube  3.5"     6.936g          .2446oz

 

                           4.5"     11.021g        .3887oz

 

   YUM Tube 4"               10.798g        .3808oz

Good stuff guys!

Remember that most plastic float somewhat. Especially ones without salt. So they actually are much lighter in the water.

 

Any yes spinnerbait weight is usually head only and can weigh double with blades and hardware

Great information. Thanks

Regarding spinnerbaits, I posted this about 4 years ago - actual weights of some spinnerbaits that I had on had, with the weights rounded off to the nearest 1/8th.