Pegging the weight?

[BIG B.]

I've done a lot of plastics fishing in my life, and always read and heard about "pegging the weight." I've never really done a lot of this and was just curious what the purpose was, and the pros and cons?

[.dsaavedra.]

i peg the weight when i want my worm to quickly make it to the bottom (sometimes if i don't peg it, the weight will slide down the line on the fall and make it to the bottom before the worm).

when the cover is thick i will peg the weight so it won't slide down the line and get caught up in crap.

also, when i want to impart DIRECT action to the worm, i will peg it. i did this with the rage tail anacondas because of the big tail on them, i thought that if i didn't peg the relatively small weight, that when the worm fell it wouldn't get that tail wagging. but with the weight pegged, it really pulled the worm through the water and gave it a different action.

basically, in short, pegging the weight amplifies its effect on the action of your bait. when i'm fishing sparse cover and smaller baits, i won't peg the weight. when i'm fishing heavy cover and bigger baits, i will peg the weight.

[bigtimfish]

The only reason I peg my weights is to punch through grass. I use 3/4 oz parasite weights. They are not really pegged but they do not let the weight slide. Same result as pegging.Since I discovered this method, I will no longer throw a jig. A Paca Craw or a GYCB Kreature (flappers off)works just fine.

[DINK WHISPERER]

I always peg my T-rigs no matter what! I will just up size the weight for conditions.

[Bass Junkie]

 I never peg the weight, just never have need to. Most of the time I fish my worm rigs over fairly clean bottoms, or in laydowns. I like the thought that the bass dosen't feel the weight of the weight. It's just fine and dandy 'till I slam hme the steel.

[RoLo]

when the cover is thick i will peg the weight so it won't slide down the line and get caught up in crap. also, when i want to impart DIRECT action to the worm, i will peg it.

Dave nailed it.

Some things in life I just refuse to do, and pegging a sinker is one of them (actually it's unpegging I loathe).

Instead of pegging the sinker, I'll switch to a jig of the same weight.

Roger

[Big Bait Fishing]

when i want the weight pegged i use Bullet Weights Screw in weights . they are simple to use and can do it easily from shore or boat and not have to worry about the fuss with little pegs and toothpicks and such .

[iceintheveins]

When your fishing pretty good cover, pegging your weight helps keep the bait more snagless and to punch through heavy weedgrowth. I think it gives a bait with a flappy tail such as a brush hawg or ribbon tail worm a more frantic tail action too.

[Catt]

Simple test

Put on a pair of swim goggles

Have some one throw a Texas Rig in the deep end of a swimming pool

You watch the rig fall to the bottom

Report back here and tell us how far the worm was from the weight

I bet you can't get it to separate more than a few inches to a foot behind the weight!

[RoLo]

Simple test

Put on a pair of swim goggles

Have some one throw a Texas Rig in the deep end of a swimming pool

You watch the rig fall to the bottom

Report back here and tell us how far the worm was from the weight

I bet you can't get it to separate more than a few inches to a foot behind the weight!

In that same underwater test, you will also notice that the sinker and hook quickly slap together

with every upstroke of the rod. In fact, only a T-rig creates the realistic scenario of a serpeant-like creature

giving chase to an underwater morsel.

In twigs and brush. where you want the sinker and hook to stay together,

simply retrieve the lure using only the reel, without pumping the rod.

Roger