Carolina Rig Update Question

[Balshy Fishing]

Heading out to Safe Harbor up past Lancaster, PA and setup a Carolina Rig on my Medium Heavy rod. Now, I have 30lb PowerPro braid on that rod and use a 12lb Seaguar Floro leader.

My big question is(because I can't remember for the life of me), do I go braid tied directly to leader to weight & bead to swivel to other leader?

Probably a very dumb question but for the life of me, I cannot remember.

Thanks yall! 

[blckshirt98]

Thread weight onto braid.  Thread bead onto braid.  Tie swivel to end of braid.  Tie leader to other end of swivel.  Tie hook to end of leader.

[Airman4754]

  On 3/6/2016 at 3:15 AM, blckshirt98 said:

Thread weight onto braid.  Thread bead onto braid.  Tie swivel to end of braid.  Tie leader to other end of swivel.  Tie hook to end of leader.

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What he said. I would also suggest a mono leader because it will float and make your plastic a little more buoyant. Unless you are using buoyant plastics then disregard. 

[papajoe222]

Like they said and I recommend mono, because it retains more of it's rated break strength than fluoro when nicked. Trust me, if you're fishing shell beds or rip-rap, you'll be getting nicks in that leader so keep checking it.  You won't be loosing anything in the way of sensitivity unless you go extra long with your leader. 

[RyneB]

I only use mono as my leader, it has stretch and floats. I just seem to get more bites than with fluoro or copolymer.

[Balshy Fishing]

Thanks guys. I knew something seemed weird with how I just set it up haha

[tracker01]

Good luck. I live in Lancaster Co. I could help you some with Safe Harbor. I just use mono and fish from Safe Harbor down to the Holtwood  dam. Depending on where you put in, you might not have to go far to catch fish. I haven't been there this year yet, so let me know how you make out.

[Balshy Fishing]

  On 3/6/2016 at 2:57 PM, tracker01 said:

Good luck. I live in Lancaster Co. I could help you some with Safe Harbor. I just use mono and fish from Safe Harbor down to the Holtwood  dam. Depending on where you put in, you might not have to go far to catch fish. I haven't been there this year yet, so let me know how you make out.

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We ended up not going to Safe Harbor, I'll be going there Wednesday after I go to Susquehanna Fishing Tackle's reopening!

 

I'm a shore fisherman: (

[primetime]

C-rig is awesome from shore.....Brass weights often help...I like a straight shank worm hook that only has the small barbs on it that Gamakatsu makes..Since I cast them far and like heavy weights, thin wire works best, and easy to rig a straight tai worm perfectly straight which matters.

I use Fluoro if around wood or rock for abrasion resistance but copoly is probably what I use most since I carry more of it when shore fishing than fluoro in lighter lb tests since hybrid 10 is really 16lb test...

[David Whitaker]

  On 3/6/2016 at 3:23 AM, Mosster47 said:

What he said. I would also suggest a mono leader because it will float and make your plastic a little more buoyant. Unless you are using buoyant plastics then disregard. 

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I have found this to be untrue. Watched a video from LunkersTV on YouTube where he ties mono and flouro leaders on a c-rig and with various lengths and the underwater footage shows very little, if not zero difference between the two leaders and the action of the bait/buoyancy. It all depends on water depth and maybe clarity that you should base your leader off of. If you're fishing deep I'd go with flouro to get a more positive hook set and shallow I would use mono because you don't need the near-zero stretch of flouro for a positive hook set. And it's cheaper, so when you don't need to use your expensive fluorocarbon leader material, why use it?

[Mike L]

  On 3/6/2016 at 3:35 AM, papajoe222 said:

Like they said and I recommend mono, because it retains more of it's rated break strength than fluoro when nicked. Trust me, if you're fishing shell beds or rip-rap, you'll be getting nicks in that leader so keep checking it.  You won't be loosing anything in the way of sensitivity unless you go extra long with your leader. 

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Ditto

Listen to the Papa

I personally use Yo Zuri as a leader as I don't use or even own mono anymore.  

 

Mike 

[papajoe222]

The near zero stretch of fluoro is a misconception. Both mono and fluoro will 'stretch'. The big difference there is that mono will return to its original configuration.