How Do You Rig Your Weight

[brother dave]

LOL! Brother, how does your boat float with those rigs on board?

Most of the time I manage to float my boat right side up

[Mark]

For you bait chuckers , add weight until you feel it bounce off the bottom. IF you don't have to tie hooks occasionally, you aren't deep enough!

[snap]

Mark has no business in this conversation!!!

[Mark]

Come on Skip, chuckers have our pride too.

[Brian Wise]

_{The answer to all problems with split-shot......tungsten putty. Well, it is the answer to 'most' problems.}

[Addicted to Creeks]

the rest are covered by duct tape

[XP 590]

_{The answer to all problems with split-shot......tungsten putty. Well, it is the answer to 'most' problems.}

AMEN! Having fished with you two weeks ago, and with it being my first time on the North Fork, AND with water running at 1450 CFS, I was very impressed with your use of tungsten putty. Like any good obsessed fly fisherman, I ran out and bought some right away and can't "weight" to try it out! --I know, that was pretty bad. It also hadn't ocurred to me to place it so close to the fly, but with that current, and the good fortune we had, that was definitely the ticket.

[Brian Wise]

AMEN! Having fished with you two weeks ago, and with it being my first time on the North Fork, AND with water running at 1450 CFS, I was very impressed with your use of tungsten putty. Like any good obsessed fly fisherman, I ran out and bought some right away and can't "weight" to try it out! --I know, that was pretty bad. It also hadn't ocurred to me to place it so close to the fly, but with that current, and the good fortune we had, that was definitely the ticket.

Yeah! If the water was a little lower we would have moved it farther away from the fly.....but boy, when you are talking 1400 cfs it sure helps get the flies down quickly to put that weight 6-8" away from the first fly.

[Al Agnew]

When I fished with the guide on the Provo River in Utah, he rigged me with what he called a "bounce rig". It was two flies, attached to the tippet on separate four inch bits of tippet as droppers off the main tippet, the two droppers about 12 inches apart, and about 6-8 inches of tippet below them, with the weight near the end of it. In theory, the weight bounces along the bottom with the flies above it, and if the weight gets hung between the rocks it simply slides off the tippet without you losing the flies. It looks like it would get tangled up a lot, but it didn't seem to. It also looked like a real pain to tie up, but I didn't have to do the tying!

[podum]

Tell me more of this "tungsten putty" and how you use it.