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Rigging Options
As the cows come home, many are digging out their big plastic and I thought I'd see how most are rigging and fishing. If I'm fishing my 13" Mega Jerk, it's usually three different ways, weightless on a size 10 owner beast hook, or the same with a belly weight or back in the day when I might want to fish the canal; on a 2-4 oz lead head. Notice what happens to the front of the bait on a commercially poured lead head for the canal, the barb on them is so big it makes a mess of the plastic and I rigged it on purpose to demonstrate it. I had a bunch poured back in the day and if I was heading to the canal, my barbs would be taken off down to the hook and wrapped with heavy thread, to which I'd apply super glue before putting on the plastic. That trick, along with my rugged plastic would allow it to be fished until the canal snagged it and pissed me off.
My canal days are over by the way, too much work for my bad back, so if anyone is looking for lead, or big rubber, I have a ton of each and I'd sell for half price compared to what you'd buy from a shop or online for lead or plastic.
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