To Pin Or Not To Pin?

[Horseshoe crazy]

When do you guys pin your weight on a t-rig? Also what are the advantages of not pinning with a bobber stop?

[Felix77]

Basic rule of thumb for me ... the heavier the cover the more likely I am to pin the weight.

 

Heavy weeds - Flipping and pitching - Pinned.  Also use baits which are streamlined and little/no appendages.

Moderate weeds - Flipping and pitching - Pinned/unpinned ... truly a preference.  Use baits with some action like a brush hog.

Light to moderate - Flippin/Pitchin/cast & Retrieve - unpinned.

Sparse weeds - cast and retrieve.  - unpinned.  I let both run freely.

 

Hope this helps.

[gulfcaptain]

Pin it when I flip or pitch any kind of grass, weeds, timber....just want it all to fall together.  Pin it when I fish a senko with a willow blade screwed into the tale when swimming it through grass. Other then that I don't pin the sinker.

[Mike L]

Basic rule of thumb for me ... the heavier the cover the more likely I am to pin the weight.

 

Heavy weeds - Flipping and pitching - Pinned.  Also use baits which are streamlined and little/no appendages.

Moderate weeds - Flipping and pitching - Pinned/unpinned ... truly a preference.  Use baits with some action like a brush hog.

Light to moderate - Flippin/Pitchin/cast & Retrieve - unpinned.

Sparse weeds - cast and retrieve.  - unpinned.  I let both run freely.

 

Hope this helps.

Felix pretty much covered it.

What I do also is, I'll rig a bobber stop on the line and adjust it up and down as the cover changes while trolling an area. This way I can use the same combo without stopping.

Mike

[aavery2]

I always peg my weights on TX rigs, it allows me to control how much line I want between the weight and bait. Usually somewhere between 0 - 8".

[Horseshoe crazy]

Graeat answers! Thanks     Do you guys feel like the noise and the weight dragging the bottom attract the fish?

[Raul]

Graeat answers! Thanks     Do you guys feel like the noise and the weight dragging the bottom attract the fish?

 

Of course they attract the fish, it helps them home in the bait.

[F14A-B]

Craw fish often emit clicking sounds underwater

[primetime]

I have had 2 fish swallow and get tangled by inhaling the carolina clicker in Ny years ago carolina rigging with loud beads and weights with long leader and had 2 fish in month time inhale and get to boat unhooked and took bead and bullet weight, swivel...

 

I often put a bead in between the pegged sinker which is 4" up and that is for contrast, sound, and also for feel and I find a silver or gold bead under a bullet weight sometimes is all sound I need, better than a rattle....