I guess I am old school and starting worming first with a 3/8 oz weight. Usually just keep the same weight on when I flip and pitch. Do you think there is any advantage to a smaller weight?

depends on what I'm pitching or flipping

1/2oz or bigger for really thick stuff

1/4oz-3/8oz depending on wind for flipping/pitching hardwoods

I will also use a different plastic for each of those applications

My favorite size and I use tungsten.

I use a 3/8 when I pitch beaver type baits and craw tubes. I use a 1/4 oz for baby brush hogs.

1/4 and 5/16 are My most used.

1/4-3/8..1oz for mats

Depends....sometimes 1/4 ounce....sometimes more....MUCH MORE! Yesterday I was flipping and punching with two 1 1/2ounce tungstens pegged. The mat was an inch thick and I swear a raccoon could have walked across it no problem. A few times I had to flip up high and snatch down on the rod to blast the 3 ounce weight though to the bottom. Must have been crazy looking to a fish. Probably looked like a meteor shower under the mat!!!! Haha. But...hey....we do what we gotta do to get to the fish. And it worked.

I usually go with a 3/8 or 1/4.

5/16 or 3/8 usually been doing good using my 3/4 tungsten punch skirts punching grass using a California lizard from double zz lures

1/4 or 5/16 usually. Occasionally I'll go up to 3/4 oz in thick huisache or retama bushes and hydrilla. 75% is probably done with 5/16.

I drag, pitch, and flip as light a weight as I can.

This guy is a grass master. +1

Some guy named Hackney out of Louisiana has taken the time to write about this very subject. I know that most of you fellows won't believe a thing he say's so do not read the Bass.com article #1 or #2 and there is a #3 coming soon. By the way he really likes the Palomar knot. But then what does he know? Dan

Me too, 1/8 to 3/16 unless really windy or deep.