To Peg, Or Not To Peg, That Is The Question

[bkohlman]

When T-Rigging, what conditions/situations/baits do you peg and why? What conditions/situations/baits do you not peg and why?

 

 

Thanks guys!

[Jrob78]

I only peg when i'm fishing nasty cover where there's a risk of the weight separating from the bait. You don't want your weight hanging on a piece of vegetation or tree limb leaving your bait floating. Pegging allows your bait to penetrate all the way through whatever it is your fishing. In open water, I don't normally peg.

[Sodus Bay Scooter]

I only peg when i'm fishing nasty cover where there's a risk of the weight separating from the bait. You don't want your weight hanging on a piece of vegetation or tree limb leaving your bait floating. Pegging allows your bait to penetrate all the way through whatever it is your fishing. In open water, I don't normally peg.

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[Traveler2586]

I always peg, I don't like the weight separating from the plastic.

[nascar2428]

I always peg, I don't like the weight separating from the plastic.

Ditto

[MrSwimJig]

Same here don't peg in open water to light cover but will peg for heavy cover.

[WRB]

To me a T-rig that is pegged isn't a T-rig, it's a Florida rig....but I guess it's lost this identity. Got to wonder what the Hemphill gang would say about this?

When I fish a T-rig it's amost always with a glass faceted bead between a sliding sinker, gives it a California look...And you can shake it. Weight separation is what makes this rig work good, the worm only has the hook in it, no weight for the bass to feel when it gets engulfed. A pegged weigh up against the hook becomes a Florida rig or punch rig if it's heavy and used to penetrate heavy cover. The only advantage over a bullet head jig with a pegged bullet weight is you can vary the hook style and size vs the weight size or distance between the hook and weight, this rig is good in weedy cover.

Tom

[Bluebasser86]

I only peg when i'm fishing nasty cover where there's a risk of the weight separating from the bait. You don't want your weight hanging on a piece of vegetation or tree limb leaving your bait floating. Pegging allows your bait to penetrate all the way through whatever it is your fishing. In open water, I don't normally peg.

Exactly

[backcast88]

I never peg, heavy or light cover.

 

If I was punching grass I would peg, but since I don't fish any water where that is necessary I don't.

[Bankbeater]

I hardly ever peg. 

[CPBassFishing]

I peg when pitching soft plastics, punching heavy weeds, and working through wood cover. I never peg in open water. In my experience, pegging in open water gets way less bites from finicky fish.

[Traveler2586]

I guess I'm in line with the rest of you cause I'm always fishing some type of cover like SAV, wood, etc.  I hardly fish open water like a hump in the middle of a river.  Now I do fish a Carolina rig often with a floating worm like a Zman where thee weight is free.

[lmbfisherman]

I peg usually in heavy cover like others state, I will usually use the 1 pc hook/weight tackle, you can get them at BPS.  Works very well, saves time tying on a traditional ewg/bullet weight, I will use a bobber stop if I have to go 1oz or higher.

[Snakehead Whisperer]

To me a T-rig that is pegged isn't a T-rig, it's a Florida rig....but I guess it's lost this identity. Got to wonder what the Hemphill gang would say about this?

When I fish a T-rig it's amost always with a glass faceted bead between a sliding sinker, gives it a California look...And you can shake it. Weight separation is what makes this rig work good, the worm only has the hook in it, no weight for the bass to feel when it gets engulfed. A pegged weigh up against the hook becomes a Florida rig or punch rig if it's heavy and used to penetrate heavy cover. The only advantage over a bullet head jig with a pegged bullet weight is you can vary the hook style and size vs the weight size or distance between the hook and weight, this rig is good in weedy cover.

Tom

I'm with you on this. I will occasionally use a bobber stop and bead to control the amount of line that the sinker can slide on, but otherwise use no peg unless I'm punching (and even then I usually opt for the bobber stop over a non moving peg, as it seems more versatile to me.) If I'm fishing with a stationary weight I'll usually tie on a Slider Spider.

[Traveler2586]

I'm with you on this. I will occasionally use a bobber stop and bead to control the amount of line that the sinker can slide on, but otherwise use no peg unless I'm punching (and even then I usually opt for the bobber stop over a non moving peg, as it seems more versatile to me.) If I'm fishing with a stationary weight I'll usually tie on a Slider Spider.

 

Whats your bobber stop look like, do you have a pic or a link; doesn't it pick up weeds?

[Snakehead Whisperer]

Whats your bobber stop look like, do you have a pic or a link; doesn't it pick up weeds?

I use the cheap string type and cut them really close. Usually I'll get some tubing and tie my own, but they're the same as any tackle shop sells.

 

 

 

Here's the knot.

[Traveler2586]

I use the cheap string type and cut them really close. Usually I'll get some tubing and tie my own, but they're the same as any tackle shop sells.

 

 

 

Here's the knot.

 

I've never seen or used these, but I think I understand the knot.  With the tube and bead, do you run your line through the tube, slide the coiled line onto your line and then pulling it tight?  What do you do when you have to re-tie, slide everything up your line?

[Snakehead Whisperer]

I've never seen or used these, but I think I understand the knot.  With the tube and bead, do you run your line through the tube, slide the coiled line onto your line and then pulling it tight?  What do you do when you have to re-tie, slide everything up your line?

Pretty much, then slide the tube off and save it for later. The stop will last through several re-ties.

[WRB]

The rubber bobber stops look like a football with a hole down the center. The stop comes on a wire loop that you put your line through, then simply pull the wire loop tab to load the rubber stop onto the line.. Rubbe bobber stops come several sizes.

I use Top Brass Peg-It, looks like a rubber tooth pick, pointed on one end and fatter on the opposite end.

You put the weight and or bead on the line, tie on the hook. Next you insert the pointed end of the rubber peg into the hole of the sinker or bead and push in until the pointed end comes out the other end. Next pinch the pointed rubber end against the line and pull the line with the rubber peg into the weight hole or bead hole until the fat end plugs the hole. Cut off the pointed peg end next to the exit hole in the weight or sinker, I use line clippers and your done your weight or sinker now has a rubber plug the holds the line in place, but you can still slide it to make adjustment without damaging the line. The Peg-It Jumbo has a faster fatter taper for larger weight or bead holes. SeeTop Brass or TW for details.

Tom