I've found a way to almost completely end snagging your weight on the bottom, then having to rerig when you break it off. Lots of people punch a hole in their pencil lead, then clip this hole to a swivel at the end of their main line. I used to do this as well--and lost lots of gear when snagging the weight broke the main line off. Here is my new setup---tie a 6" piece of leader to the swivel at the end of your main line, right next to where you tie your leader. Now, use hollow core pencil lead (I use 3/16", cuz it's thinner. You'll see why in a sec), and slide a piece of the lead up on the 6" leader. Now, pinch it tight at both ends. You're probably saying "That's not new!" So far, you're right. Even just this setup works well, cuz the weight will pull off of the leader if it gets hung up, and nothing else breaks or needs to be rerigged. Now for the new part (at least to me it was a new idea)---pinch your pencil lead completely flat the entire length of it!!! It will now fit through those small cracks in the rocks that used to hang it up!! But, I have one more trick to add to this. If you are going to use, say, a 1" piece of lead, cut it into 4 pieces instead of using 1 big piece. Attatch all 4 pieces, one right after another, the same way as described above, and pinch them ALL flat. You now have a very skinny weight setup, that ALSO PIVOTS in 3 places!!!! This works well in preventing your weight from wrapping itself a million times around your main line or leader (the pivots help destroy the momentum of the swinging weight), but it also allows your weight to "snake" it's way out of 99% of the snags it encounters. Give the Snake a try, and let me know what you think, or any improvements you might come up with. In over 2 weeks of fishing the Carbon almost everyday, I've only lost 1 rig due to snagging the bottom.

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