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Do You Need a Bead With a Tungsten Worm Weight?
Beads sit right next to the worm weights in every tackle aisle, which quietly implies they belong together. Ask ten bass anglers whether you...
Read article →Skipping Docks for Bass: How Much Weight (If Any)
The best bass on a lot of lakes live in water you cannot cast to. They sit in the shade under docks, back by...
Read article →Bass Lure Fall Rate: How Weight Size Controls the Drop
Ask most anglers what their weight is for and they will say casting distance or getting to the bottom. Both are true, but they...
Read article →Braid or Fluorocarbon? Line Choice for Feeling the Bottom
Every guide to bottom fishing eventually says "you'll feel more with tungsten". That is true, but it is only the first link in the...
Read article →Bank Fishing for Bass: The Weights Actually Worth Carrying
Fishing from the bank changes the problem. You cannot reposition, you cannot fish straight down, and you cannot carry four trays of everything. Whatever...
Read article →How to Rig a Texas Rig, Step by Step
The Texas rig is the first thing most bass anglers learn and the last thing they stop using. It is weedless, it casts well,...
Read article →Bullet Weight, Worm Weight, Flipping Weight: What's Actually Different?
Walk into any conversation about bass tackle and the same piece of lead or tungsten will get called three different things in about a...
Read article →Free Rig Fishing: What It Is and Why the Weight Is Different
The free rig looks like a Texas rig that someone assembled wrong. The weight isn't pegged, it isn't even threaded on the line in...
Read article →Shaky Head Sizing: When 3/16 Beats 1/4 oz
A shaky head is the bait you tie on when nothing else is working. It's slow, it's boring to fish, and it catches fish...
Read article →What Size Weight for Punching Matted Cover?
Punching is the least subtle thing you can do with a tungsten weight. You are not trying to present a bait so much as...
Read article →Pegged or Free-Sliding? When to Peg a Tungsten Weight
A pegged weight and a free-sliding one are two different presentations, not a preference. Here is which cover calls for which, and how to...
Read article →Teardrop vs Skinny Drop Shot Weights (and When You Want a Closed Eye)
Two shapes, two eye styles, and a straightforward rule for choosing: match the shape to the bottom, and the eye to how often you...
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