Pros Choose This One The Most: How to Choose the Right Fishing Weight

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In bass fishing, weights, more often called sinkers, are commonly used with soft plastic lures.
You have bullet weights for Texas rigging, egg sinkers for Carolina rigging, bell sinkers, and cylinder sinkers for drop shot, split-shots for finesse fishing, and even clip-on or add-on weights for weighting the hooks.
Wait, what? We know that all sounds perplexing and highly technical, so let us clarify it a bit.
Sinkers can range in weight from 1/64oz up to a hefty 2oz for most bass fishing applications. The weight often has to do with the depth you want to fish or the density of the hiding place you need to penetrate.
Sinkers that have a hole in them, known as Slip sinkers, are intended to thread your fishing lure through so they can slide up and down the line and are regularly used for Texas rigging and Carolina rigging.
Bell sinkers and Cylinder sinkers have an eye at the top of the weight designed to tie to the end of your line with a plastic or live bait hook, usually tied some space up the line from the weight.
Split shots, on the other hand, can be pinched on your line just above the hook or lure you intend to use to give it a natural slow fall or to keep live bait from swimming up to the surface the entire time.
Sometimes weight is molded or attached to the eye of a hook in a certain shape to form what’s called a jig head. It’s just another way to weight a soft plastic lure and keep it all in one piece, more resembling a jig.
You thread the plastic onto the jighead, and it fishes more like a jig than a slip sinker or dropshot type of get-up.
If you want an ultra-slow fall on a little finesse plastic in nice clear water, you might pinch a small 1/32-ounce piece of split shot on your line.
If you need to thump your lure through some entwined grass in 10 feet of water, you might want to use a 1-ounce slip sinker to get the bait through the cover and down to the hiding bass underneath.
But, the general rule is to use the smallest amount of weight you can get away with but still feel what your lure is doing.
Caution: The supplementary weight you put on a lure, the more it will want to snag. The lighter the weight, the tougher it is to stay in contact with your lure and feel when something changes, like a fish biting.
If bottom contact is vital, you may need more weight if it’s windy, strong current, and deeper water. Essentially the calmer it is, the lighter weights you’ll need to throw.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:20 What happens when you use the wrong weight
00:52 When to use a heavy-weight
01:05 When to use a light-weight
01:26 What weight to use in shallow water
01:49 What weight to use in deep water
02:08 Bonus TIP!
03:09 Choosing the right hooks
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