Carolina rig

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The grass here is so thick that there are not any fish inside it or below it anyways, so I avoid the standard layout of a C rig completely and just use enough weight to get it down to the top of the grass without losing too much of the action or purpose. I have lost and snapped too many lines and lures with weighted setups, even with 50+ lb braid, it is just super thick.

I use different variations. Sometimes I will use the same small weight only in front of the swivel without any beads and leave the worm a foot or so back with the hook buried so it looks like it is sitting on top or slightly above the vegetation. Other times I will leave out the swivel and have the weight come up directly to the front of the worm.

There are even times I use a swimbait weighted hook, partial texas rig in the worm which keeps it at an angle or tail up but light enough it stays along the top of the veggies.

Unfortunately the standard c-rig is too deep and gets into the tied and grown together vegetation of my area. It would be like tossing into a dumpster full of tangled 100 lb fishing line, you can skim the lighter stuff along the top but the heavy presentations just dig in and pull back loads of stuff with it, which wears you out quickly.