Am I the only one using a Carolina keeper and 20 pound flouro or 25 pound big game mono? An old guide who is no longer with us got me started doing it so that I only tied one knot and only had to worry about that one weak point. I have caught a lot of c rig fish on fork that way.

Curious on another applicable tangent.... 20 yrs ago, back in my teens, I would reverse my bullet weight to cause more commotion on the bottom. Since getting back into fishing this year, I've stuck with the standard setup and added a clacker.

Any of y'all fish reversed weight nowadays, and what's your opinion?

I like the Carolina Keepers with 15 or 17 McCoys Mean Green. I've learned if I'm rigging a heavy weight, anything over 1/2 oz or so, I'll use two keepers. The heavy weights tend to make the Carolina Keeper slide and you lose your leader length. Stack two together and problem solved.

Yep Anchorman,

Once the line gets wet and a bit more fragile those keepers sliding can't be too good. Like you, I throw on a second if I'm using leader line all the way down and 1/2 oz or above.

Interesting idea Mike.... Seems like it might get hung up more but if it works for you.

Not the only one. Less knots, easy to change leader length and to retie if fishing heavier cover.

Go back and read my post.....I said it makes a difference at Lake Fork.
So you are saying you get more bites with braid than fluoro, or are you saying that braid works better in the heavy cover you are fishing. Braid may be better for heavy cover situations but I doubt you get more bites using it than you would with fluoro. Anyway, it matters to the fish at lake Fork for some reason. I think it has to do with sound more than a visual thing because I catch bass at Fork on an Alabama rig and it is very visible with all the wires.

Last year during the Skeeter Owners I had twenty plus fish over 5 lbs (not one weigher) and I had braid as a main line so while that might true for you, I'm just not buying it. It was a deep hump with too much timber around for me to trust my fluoro set up to horse them up and out fast.

I don't think anyone will argue you get more bites with braid. Better sensitivity? Yes. Better for dense cover or sharp rocks? Absolutely. The question for me is does the visibility of the line detract from the bites in our tea colored water? Not sure. I don't think the sound is a detractor, if any is made with any consistency, and I might be totally wrong here.

There are plenty of clear deep water lakes where even 20 pound floro won't get bit but I don't know that we have any of those in NE Texas.

Maybe our two competitors can shed some more light on the subject with the upcoming challenge.

Don't get me wrong, I like braid for a main line on a C-rig and I used it for many years fishing Fork until I got beat numerous times by someone not using braid as a main line. We had the same leader type and length and the same bait. I don't know what it is about the fish on Fork but there is something to it, at least some of the time. I have no idea on what day it matters to the fish so I use fluorocarbon line as a main line on a C-rig. I have been told by several guides on Fork also that you will get less bites with braid then fluoro. They see it all the time they tell me.

I have fished a Carolina rig for over 20 years and have caught some of my biggest fish and tournament limits doing it. I have done everything from Braided line with fluorocarbon leader to using back to back 3/8 ounce weights on it to using Carolina keepers because of not wanting to have extra knots to the simple 3/4 ounce lead weight, bead and swivel using McCoys 15lb mean green line which I have settled on for now. Don't know why I have switched around so many times and seems like there are pro's and con's to all kinds of methods to fishing. Guess it just comes to the fact that you do what you have the most confidence in at any particular time.