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Best Weights For Carolina Rigging

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Looking for the best weights for Carolina Rigging soft plastics, I would generally use a 1/2 oz worm weight but want to know your thoughts. Let us know the way you fish'em with the best success.

I use tru tungsten brand barrel weights insertless in 3/4 &1oz. I also use braid on all my c rigs that weight an braid I can tell you how many pebbles there are before that stump

1/2 or 3/4 oz cylinder weight that bass pro sells.

I use these too with good luck, and now that we have a bass pro shop I can try all there other stuff too.

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I use these too with good luck, and now that we have a bass pro shop I can try all there other stuff too.

Can you guys give me a product number, link or brand of these "cylinder" weights as I can't seem to find them? Thanks!

Can you guys give me a product number, link or brand of these "cylinder" weights as I can't seem to find them? Thanks!

I believe these are what you are looking for:

http://www.basspro.com/Bass-Pro-Shops-XPS-Finesse-Weights/product/15795/61928

I just started using them, and they go through grass a lot better than the egg weights.

I use 1/2 to 1 oz barrel weights. Nothing is wrong with lead it is cheaper but if you want to cough up the money and cry like a newborn when you break off, buy tungsten.

I use 3/4 tungsten bbl weights with braid as my main line and 15 lb mono as a leader. Anytime I break off its below the swivel so I almost never lose a weight.

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They don't make the best ones I have found. The were made by Tru Tungsten and were poorly marketed. They called the the Finesse Carolina Weight. They are a long narrow bullet type weight. They rarely ever get hung up.

This was my first summer really putting a lot of effort into fishing the C-Rig, and they really grew on me. I still prefer a football jig for probing deep structure areas, but the C-Rig seems to be a little more effective when fished quickly for active fish. I prefer a 1/2 oz Tru Tungsten weight, with 3 glass beads and a plastic one to protect the knot. The 1/2 oz weight seems to cover the 6-15' depth range just fine. I had more hangups when using the 3/4 weight, and the 3/8 oz weight wasn't heavy enough to fish quickly, and if I'm fishing slow, I'll use the football jig.

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Mojo Rockhoppers and their slender models (forgot the name) as well. I lost one weight this year, and I C-rigged a lot...

Where I fish there is little wood, few lillies and fewer weeds but rocks galore. I use a bullet shape but put it on backwards so it is less apt to wedge between two rocks. Depending on the wind and depth I choose to fish I'll use any thing from 3/8 to 1 ounce.

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Tungsten is more sensitive which is important with detecting bites. Its also 25% smaller then same dimension lead weight so it will come through cover easier.

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