Mojo Rig

[ib_of_the_damned]

I have a question for all of you who have thrown this rig. Do you have to or prefer to use actual mojo weights (cylindrical slip sinkers) or can you use tungsten/lead worm weights and peg them with a bobber stop or rubber peg? I really want to try out the rig and not really sure I "need" the mojo weights. I'm looking to try something different from what I normally throw on a spinning setup, the Drop Shot. 

[bigturtle]

I just use bullet weights, makes no difference to me. I peg mine with a piece of rubberband

[TxHawgs]

When I started fishing it is used the mojo weights but know I use tungsten worm weights with bobber stops on either side. Tungsten for the smaller profile to come through cover better. The split shot rig is popular where I fish and I feel this is the same as a mojo, split shot or a C-rig. Yes it's different than the traditional C-rig in that the fish will feel the weight but I don't use the traditional 3/4 or bigger weights. It's also nice to be able to try different leader lengths on the fly and your only tying one knot. I catch a lot of fish on that rig and always have one tied up for tournaments. I fish Fork which is highly pressured and the fish feeling the weight doesn't seem to be a deterrent.

[padon]

I just use small bullet weights or egg sinkers I like to rig mine with a ' Carolina keeper' which lets the weight slibe. like a mini Carolina rig without the heavy sinker glass bead etc. I usually use 1/16 or 1/8  weights.

[Team9nine]

You certainly don't have to use the Mojo weights, but it would seem to me that without Mojo weights, you don't really have a Mojo rig.  

[Bass Turd]

6 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

You certainly don't have to use the Mojo weights, but it would seem to me that without Mojo weights, you don't really have a Mojo rig.  

So am I fishing a "Ned type bait"? Heh...

[Team9nine]

Just now, Bass Turd said:

So am I fishing a "Ned type bait"? Heh...

 

Same concept - if you aren't using a mushroom head jig of some sort, you aren't fishing a Ned rig - it's just a grub at that point 

[J Francho]

If a "weightless T-rig" falls in a forest, will a bear hear it?  Or is it just rigged weedless?

[Bass Turd]

16 minutes ago, J Francho said:

If a "weightless T-rig" falls in a forest, will a bear hear it?  Or is it just rigged weedless?

Does a bear TRD in the woods?

[J Francho]

Pretty sure bears just pinch their stick baits in half.

[RoLo]

 

3 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Pretty sure bears just pinch their stick baits in half.

 

   I think they're called stink baits

 

 

[Dwight Hottle]

3 minutes ago, RoLo said:

 

I think they're called stink baits.

 

 

 

It's actually called scat but they do share your description. 

[RoLo]

14 minutes ago, Bass Turd said:

Does a bear TRD in the woods?

 

Heck ya, you don't think I pay for them, do ya? 

[Team9nine]

30 minutes ago, J Francho said:

If a "weightless T-rig" falls in a forest, will a bear hear it?

 

A bear's hearing is twice as good as ours, so I'd say yes, especially if he is downwind of the rig. Now, if you sprayed scent on the rig, he'd certainly smell it before he heard it. But to keep on subject, if I just took your weightless Texas rig and instead hooked it once through the middle of the worm (same hook and still weightless), is it still a Texas rig?

[WRB]

15 hours ago, ib_of_the_damned said:

I have a question for all of you who have thrown this rig. Do you have to or prefer to use actual mojo weights (cylindrical slip sinkers) or can you use tungsten/lead worm weights and peg them with a bobber stop or rubber peg? I really want to try out the rig and not really sure I "need" the mojo weights. I'm looking to try something different from what I normally throw on a spinning setup, the Drop Shot. 

This thread went off the rails.

Mojo weight is a elongated split shot cylinder with round ends. Bullet weight is pointed end that tends to wedge into rocks and that would be the only issue pegging a bullet weight.

I prefer the slip shot rig using mojo style weights, sliding sinker gives me better strike detection and higher strike ratios per cast as the worm falls slower when the weight slides up the line. If you are fishing weeds then a pegged weight can be more effective using a mojo rig.

I use a Carolina keeper as a adjustable weight stop about 18" to 30" above the hook for slip shot rig.

Tom

[Choporoz]

I guess you can tell from above that it doesn't matter what you (or anyone else) calls a particular rig.

 

Mojo weights are not required for any particular fishing situation.  However, I suggest that you do give them a try at some point.  I never peg them, but I do like them a lot when pulling flukes and worms through grass or across shallow points.  They come through vegetation extremely well.

...oh...and btw, Mojo weights have become a little harder to find in the last couple years....BPS has finesse cylindrical weights; and TW carries Phenix brand (search for Vengeance Finesse.)

[J Francho]

54 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

 

A bear's hearing is twice as good as ours, so I'd say yes, especially if he is downwind of the rig. Now, if you sprayed scent on the rig, he'd certainly smell it before he heard it. But to keep on subject, if I just took your weightless Texas rig and instead hooked it once through the middle of the worm (same hook and still weightless), is it still a Texas rig?

 

It never was a Texas rig!  No bullet weight.

[Team9nine]

9 minutes ago, J Francho said:

 

It never was a Texas rig!  No bullet weight.

 

You obviously haven't Googled "weightless Texas Rig" and read the 4,270 results that popped up  but that's OK, it doesn't matter, because I heard Glenn is giving out participation trophies to all who contributed to this thread...

[J Francho]

Don't get me started.  The interwebz is full of dumb, misinformed people, and I may be one of them.

[Glenn]

I use the cylindrical slip sinkers because they come through cover and rocks better.  In fact, using a bullet weight in rocks is like you're just begging to get hung up.

 

btw:  splitshot rig = mojo rig.  The only difference is that a splitshot rig uses a pea-shaped weight crimped onto the line instead of using cylindrical slip sinkers.  Aside  from that, they're indistinguishable.

[Team9nine]

47 minutes ago, Glenn said:

 

btw:  splitshot rig = mojo rig.  The only difference is that a splitshot rig uses a pea-shaped weight crimped onto the line instead of using cylindrical slip sinkers.

 

So, we agree that there IS a difference  which was my point...which then begs the question of how can they actually be same if there is a difference? It's the difference that make them - different, otherwise we'd only need one name for all these rigs 

 

-T9

[Airman4754]

I used some actual split shots on Saturday with a 2" crawfish plastic.

 

It wasn't official, but it officially worked the same as a mojo.

[Crestliner2008]

I've never fished a "mojo" rig. However, I have a similar rigging with a 1/8 oz. bullet sinker, small (quality) crane swivel and a 4' fluorocarbon leader to a weightless, Tx rigged 4" plastic worm. I can't think about how many times this rigging has paid off for me in both numbers and quality. So, no, I've never fished the mojo.....but I can live with that.

[RoLo]

3 hours ago, Team9nine said:

without Mojo weights, you don't really have a Mojo rig.  

 

 

Yeah, that's been my problem right along:

I ain't got no Mojo   

[WRB]

A friend made the first tubular round end weights.  Larry MeCain passed away last year after moving to Florida and was tool maker who like to bass fish, sold the tooling in the early 90's to the folks who marketed the Mojo weights. Larry designed the mojo lead weights to be crimped onto the line like a split shot. We pegged a glass bead with a strand of rubber for a stopper before the Carolina Keeper was available. Iovino made a wire tool to pull the rubber strand through the mojo weight back in the 90's and it became known as the mojo rig.

Today I use black brass round nose cylinder weights because the hole is larger and doesn't deform allowing the weight to slide freely and use a glass bead for added sound clicks that works very good for me. Spring is a good time to be dragging a mojo or slip shot rig up hill or on the spawning flats.

Tom