Carolina rigged crankbait's...

[ABC123]

I've alway's taken my shallow runners and added small split shot's to the line to get a little more depth from them, but I saw an article that mentioned Carolina rigging floaters. My question to those who have done this is...what is the hookset like on a treble lure, with a slightly slack line??? Should the lures be switched over to single barbed hooks???

[Tin]

iI did it up on Champlain, when we had come across some smallies holding on a deep flat. I had heard of it and instead of tying up a drop shot or try to fish a spinnerbait that deep I tried it. I already had the c-rig tied up so I just put on the crank at the end of it. I found when reeling in the crank along with the strike that usually hooks the fish. Not much of a need for a hookset. As for slack line, I dont know because Smallies like it reeled as fast as humanly possible. Never changed the hooks either.

[islandbass]

When I first started fishing (self taught, started cold turkey not knowing jack), the first lure I ever bought was a Rapala floating minnow.

When I realized that it was hard to get any distance, I added a little 1/4 weight to the and in essence though I didn't know it had the name carolina rig, in front of it.  Castibility was achieved and as a matter of fact, the first bass I ever caught was this way.

I didn't realize that what I did was arrive at the conclusion of a C rig until I read about it in an article months later.

It is very effective in casting those light floaters and the leader length can be adjusted to dictate the max height you wish the lure to float off the surface.  This is the advantage I discovered with it. Without the weight, the bait floats all the way back to the surface.

[flechero]

I've rarely given it much of a hookset since I'm using a heavier rod to cast the c-rig.  The fish often hits it fast enough to set themselves against the weight.  I will give a little security set, just to make sure.

Floating rapala's are great baits for this.  Fished moving down deep or as a c-rig on bottom.

We had a pretty in depth thread on this last winter, it would be worth your time to try and find it by searching.  If I remember correctly, there were several very detailed posts on rigs, baits and how they fished them.

[.dsaavedra.]

i would like to try this but im such a noob at carolina rig. im too lazy to tie one up too. lol! i think ive only done it once. i would be much more pleased at just smashing on a 1/4oz split shot 18j" up the line than actually tieing up a rig lol. but yeah i'd like to try that with some floaters.