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Protect Your Necks
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 Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 6:36 pm Post subject: Texas Rig |
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I just tried using a Texas Rig for the first time today and all I caught was about 50 lbs of weeds  . Does anyone else catch a lot of weeds up on the sinker? |
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heavyweight80
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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I prefer weightless
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PECo
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 9:48 pm Post subject: Tip from Gary Yamamoto |
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I saw a television fishing show where the host was fishing with Gary Yamamoto on his private lake. You know who Gary is, right? He's the guy who gave us Senkos. Anyway, Gary gave a tip on how to make a Texas Rig a little more weedless. He put one of those little Eagle Claw egg-shaped rubber bobber stops on the line above a little tungsten bullet weight.
I've tried it and it worked pretty well. I use 30 lb braided line, but think mono or flouro would be more weedless.
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Protect Your Necks
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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Cool thanks, i'll have to try out the rubber bobber stop. Oh yes, I love Gary I always have a senko with me.  |
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stumpy
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| a couple of things can cause the weight to get bogged down in weeds. using a lead weight instead of tungsten wil hang up a little bit more. lead weights are a bit larger than tungsten = more mass to get hung up. |
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Protect Your Necks
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| Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I was just using some slip sinkers I had from trout fishing. They were probably a little big. |
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SkeeterJim
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Location: Newington, CT
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| Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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Ditto what Stumpy said, go with tungsten weights instead of lead to minimize the overall "size" of your weight.
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