Mojo Rig

[dreamertino]

When would you use a mojo rig. I usually fish a small pond and there are a few good sized fish in there nothing huge but i can't get them to bite anything. I have tried everything but this and was wanting a few opinions on if you guys think this would work

[TexasRigger21]

The mojo rig helps me when I'm in grass. It move through the thickest stuff flawlessly

[CPBassFishing]

The mojo rig is awesome for both suspended and bottom fish. I throw a 4" tube 16" up from a 1/16 or 1/8 oz weight depending on depth and what the bottom is like. If the bottom is vegetation I use the 1/16 because it sits right on top of the weeds. I throw it on spinning gear with 10lb braid and a fluoro leader.

Bait selection is pretty much whatever you want. I usually throw tubes, finesse worms, and flukes but you could use something like a brush hog, beaver, craw, etc depending on your local forage. Floating, nonsalted baits are important to me for this rig because they dart and glide much better than a salted bait.

The mojo weights are really good because they are nearly impossible to snag and the elongated design helps them sit on top of moss or any kind of vegetation that would ruin other presentations.

To fish the rig, slowly drag it a few inches at a time with your rod tip, reel down to a tight line, wait a few seconds, then drag again. This is a finesse tactic and takes a bit of patience but if fish are stacked up you can quickly get a limit because if they see it, they'll usually bite it.

[CPBassFishing]

For more info refer to Glenn's video about this rig.

 

 

[WRB]

Just a few side notes on the Mojo rig, Top Brass fishing makes the Peg-It, BPS sells a knock off.

A good friend of mine came up with the mojo style weight to resolve the problem of larger diameter split shots hanging up, so he made the longer smaller diameter cylinder shape weight back int he 70's. Larry McCain was also the same angler who came up with the football head jig back in the late 50'a. Larry moved to Arkansas when after retiring from JPL as a tool maker. Hope you are well and still fishing Larry.

You can make a rubber strand tool with thin wire, bend it back on itself about 3" long, then crimp a bullet weight on in a vise, the wire ends opposite the bent end. After you crimp it, then open the middle so it has a diamond shape opening.

Push the bent wire end through the weight hole, insert the rubber strands and pull them back through the weight hole like shown in the video.

We fish this rig a lot in deep structure rocky lakes, the only difference is a longer leader length 14" to 30" depending on the basses preference.

Tom