How Would You Rig These Tolling Weights

[Jigfishn10]

These trolling weights are from Janns Netcraft how would you rig these?

I've never trolled for fish and I got these for another application, but now winter boredom has set in and it has me wondering how to rig them for trolling?

[TnRiver46]

Those are for making your windows stay open..........

[Jigfishn10]

5 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Those are for making your windows stay open..........

You're not really wrong. ? 

Is that what you have at the lake home?

 

[J Francho]

Usually you thread a snap swivel onto the main line and attach the weight to the snap.  Below that would be swivel and leader, with whatever bait you're trolling tied to the end. 

 

I use something similar to make my own super heavy jika rigs:

 

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19 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Those are for making your windows stay open..........

We used to use those window sashes as sinkers when deep dropping. NYC housing would periodically change out the old windows for newer ones. Those things pictured are not trolling weights, of course pretty much any sinker can be adapted as trolling ballast. I vote for the HUD rig.....

[Jigfishn10]

4 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Usually you thread a snap swivel onto the main line and attach the weight to the snap.  Below that would be swivel and leader, with whatever bait you're trolling tied to the end. 

 

So the snap and weight are free to slide? Ok, I was thinking it would be like a drop shot in reverse. Weight tied to main line and lure at the end where the weight would be for the DS? 

[fissure_man]

For trolling, you want to rig those with an OR16 snap weight clip by Offshore Tackle (or similar knockoff) - the kind with the pin through the grip pad.

 

Those clips let you snap the weight on your line any distance ahead of your lure and it will stay in place, then simply unclip it from your line as you reel in your fish. 

[Jigfishn10]

5 minutes ago, BassWhole! said:

We used to use those window sashes as sinkers when deep dropping. NYC housing would periodically change out the old windows for newer ones. 

Sinkers and water in NYC take on a whole different meaning...It is fishing related though...it has to do with sleeping. ?

[J Francho]

5 minutes ago, Jigfishn10 said:

So the snap and weight are free to slide? Ok, I was thinking it would be like a drop shot in reverse. Weight tied to main line and lure at the end where the weight would be for the DS? 

 

Yes, or you can use stops to keep in place or use a three-way.  You can just tie the thing to the tag for DS if you want.  

[TnRiver46]

20 minutes ago, Jigfishn10 said:

You're not really wrong. ? 

Is that what you have at the lake home?

 

 

7 minutes ago, BassWhole! said:

We used to use those window sashes as sinkers when deep dropping. NYC housing would periodically change out the old windows for newer ones. Those things pictured are not trolling weights, of course pretty much any sinker can be adapted as trolling ballast. I vote for the HUD rig.....

Ha! No it was built in 1989 , we’ve got the spring ones . My buddy uses the windows weights to slow down a canoe in fast water. I told him one day it’s going to stop him dramatically haha

[Jigfishn10]

1 minute ago, fissure_man said:

For trolling, you want to rig those with an OR16 snap weight clip by Offshore Tackle (or similar knockoff)

 

Those clips let you snap the weight on your line any distance ahead of your lure and it will stay in place, then simply unclip it from your line as you reel in your fish. 

That I have to check out

[J Francho]

6 minutes ago, fissure_man said:

For trolling, you want to rig those with an OR16 snap weight clip by Offshore Tackle (or similar knockoff) - the kind with the pin through the grip pad.

 

Those clips let you snap the weight on your line any distance ahead of your lure and it will stay in place, then simply unclip it from your line as you reel in your fish. 

I thought those were for use with a planer board or down rigger.  What keeps you from losing your weight and clip with a fish on?

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8 minutes ago, Jigfishn10 said:

Sinkers and water in NYC take on a whole different meaning...It is fishing related though...it has to do with sleeping. ?

I'm only 1/16 Italian (and lived in Howard Beach for a spell in the '70s), but I hear somewhere between Ambrose and 17 Fathoms, hypothetically of course...

6 minutes ago, J Francho said:

I thought those were for use with a planer board or down rigger.  What keeps you from losing your weight and clip with a fish on?

In the ocean, in a pinch, a dropper with braid or dental floss and a small carabiner works, and when reeling in a fish, you just unclip it and keep reeling. I vote for the "Alpine-Floss" rig....

[fissure_man]

@J Francho they look almost identical, but for snap weights you need the ones with a small plastic pin in the center of the grip pad.  You put your line behind this pin so it doesn't pull out. 

[J Francho]

Thanks gents!

18 minutes ago, BassWhole! said:

I'm only 1/16 Italian

[Jigfishn10]

23 minutes ago, BassWhole! said:

I'm only 1/16 Italian

Goombah!

[J Francho]

Gabba-goal!