Zebco 202
2 piece rod
Main line, whatever came on it
Leader, some of the main line
Put 7 or 8 split shots about 5 feet from worm
prepackaged eagle hooks with the line and loop
Worm of choice, one of those night crawler looking ones with the two hooks
cast it out and leave it there for a long long time...
catch a fish hopefully

I fish with multiple rigs in the boat. This is usually 6.
- Weightless with just the large swivel that will not go through the first eye on the rod. 20 floro. main line - 17 floro leader 12 inches. Wide gap light wire hook 3.0 for fishing senkos, flukes and trick worms. I also use this same set up for a Skinny 7" Senko rigged Wacky. Rigs are used in 2 to 8 ft. of water.
- 1/8 oz pegged Tungsten Same leader set up for fishing the shallows.
- 3/8 oz pegged Tungsten 20 floro main line - 17 mono. 24 inches to help the baits float. Wide Gap light wire 3.0 hook for fishing Baby Brush Hogs in 5 to 15 ft.
- 1/2 oz pegged Tungsten 20 floro to 20 floro Short rig to 12 inches for slow rolling swim baits and Big Brush Hogs through the brush and around rocky points. 3.0 heavy line hook. Cast to targets and keep it slow rolling just bumping the tops of grass and rocks.
- 1/2 oz pegged Tungsten 20 Floro to 17 Mono to help the bait float. Leader is 3 ft.. for fishing around deep grass and the last brush on the 20 ft. contour lines. Baits are 10" worm and Big Brush Hog.
- 3/4 oz lead weight Pegged 50 lb braid to 20 lb Mono to help the bait float. Leader is 3.5 feet. This is for dragging the lip of river channels and creek channels on Controlled Drifts. Braid helps on the long line hook set.

Main Secret is to fish on slack line:
- Keep the bait in the strike zone as long as possible.
- I like fishing from the back of the boat.
- Once the rig is cast out, strip line and allow for the boat moving forward.
- Let it set for about 15 seconds before taking up slack to feel for pressure.
- Move the bait about 3 ft. and strip line again. Continue until you are forced to reel in and make another cast.
- Many times the man up front will be following the 20 ft. contour and turn into a gouge or around a point which will allow you to take up slack line.
- The rig is continuously changing depths; as the man up front turns in around points, which will bring your C-Rig up and over the tip of the point.
- Stay glued to the depth finder to see protrusions, gouges and bushes that would cause you to reel in and cast to them. From the back of the boat run the Depth Finder on split screen with Side Imaging and Down Scan for the depth; to see directly under the boat.
- I do not like dragging any shallower than the 20 ft. contour. Shallower than that requires casting the C-Rig to specific targets that are not under the boat where the fish may be disturbed and the bait fish spooked.
- Always be looking toward deep water for Irregular Features to cast out to and work the C-Rig UP-HILL. Many huge Bass have been fooled by fishing up-hill.

3/4 oz or 1 oz lead egg sinker, swivel. 20 or 15 big game main, 15 or 12 leader also big game. 3 or 4 feet. Bout as basic as it gets.

Heavy weight and big game is like trying to fish with a rubber band. Love me some big game but not as a main line for C-rig, way too much stretch.

17 lb floro mainline, plastic bead, 1 oz egg sinker to a 15 lb big game leader, 3/0 hook, Fluke or brush hog, set the hook!

Glass beads crack and F up your line.

Donald do you find you end with gut hooked fish with the slack line approach or is it really a non-issue?