Just talking to my uncle in Florida.  He used to fish Ochechobee almost every day for years.  He hasn't fished in 10 years as he's gotten into other things.  I havent talked to him about fishing in years, because I haven't fished for LMB until recently.

Anyway he was just trying to explain this rig to me and I couldn't envision it.  Anyone have a picture of this rig, or can anyone explain it to me?   Since he hasn't fished in 10+ years maybe there's something else on the market by now, or a new way of rigging a worm to get the same effect?  Is this true, or is the Pixton rig unique?

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A google search led me to a couple results that were related to fishing.  They are patent descriptions of some type of sinker that slides up and down your line when using a T-rig.  I went to college but even I couldn't really understand it very well from the patent descriptions!    However, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page and read the summary, it appears to be a helical-coil design for a screw-in bullet sinker.

Further down the page there are a couple other patents submitted by a fella named Pixton, so I bet that's where the name comes from.

www.freepatentsonline.com/5490345.html

Sounds like a florida rig to me...

Sounds like a florida rig to me...

That's what I was thinking.

Whats a Florida rig?  My uncle lives in florida and so does the guy who invented the rig.  He lives two blocks from my uncle.  Does this rig work?  Is it obsolete?  How exactly do you rig it?

thanks

It's just a bullet weight with a screw in under it for the plastic so they don't seperate. You "screw" the plastic into it.