7 hours ago, fishwizzard said:

Huh,  I've never seen one specific size line listed, just small, medium, or large. I will pick some of the Cabelas ones up, thanks!

Or grab the vmc sinker stops online. The come in 3 sizes.  Perfect for the applications above. 

19 hours ago, MIbassyaker said:

I think of it as a way to fish a small plastic bait near the bottom "as though" it were weightless. The weight gets it down, but with the weight ahead of the bait, moving it will pull the bait behind, but let it hunt, slide, shimmy, shudder, flutter, undulate, and settle on its own more freely, giving it very natural look, and I think that's why they'll bite it when they're in a mood to ignore anything else 

Very well put, and I couldn't agree more.

When the bite is tough, bass aren't in the mood to chase baits.  So you have to put it right in front of their face, fish it slow, and entice them to strike it.  That's what a splitshot rig does.

 

As others have mentioned above, you'll get a lot of bites when the fishing is good, so it's a good rig to use when you're learning what a strike feels like.  Repetition breeds success.

 

Hope that helps!

Glenn

On 2/28/2018 at 2:02 PM, Buffdaddy54 said:

I just watched a video by Glenn on using the Split shot/ Mojo rig and he explained when learning to detect bites with soft plastics and when the bite gets tough this is a good rig to use. Stupid question, WHY??

I thought it was a good, very informative I’ve watched it a couple of times.