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PINCH-ON SINKER

MODELS:Lead or tin; round, clam, bullet, or elongated.

USES: Geing lures, flies, and bait deeper in the water for trout, bass, catfish, and other species. They’re most oen used in stream and river fishing.

RIGGING:Pinch the shot or sinker to the line above the hook or lure.

TIPS:Pinch-on weights are best used for casting. The clam and bullet shapes are more snag resistant.

BULLET SINKER

MODELS:Lead, brass, steel, or tungsten; painted, free-sliding, or self-pegging.

USES: Casting or pitching Texas-rigged so plastics.

RIGGING: Run the line through the sinker’s pointed end and tie it to a worm hook.

TIPS: Use the lightest sinker needed to maintain boom contact or to penetrate cover. Let the sinker slide free for open water; peg the sinker to the head of the bait amid thick cover.

EGG SINKER

MODELS:Lead, steel, or bismuth.

USES:Carolina-rigging so-plastic bass lures; driing and boom-fishing live bait for everything from trout to stripers.

RIGGING: Run line through the sinkerand tie it to a two-way swivel. Aach a leader and hook to the other side.

TIPS: This allows a fish to run with the bait without feeling its weight. Over a snag-filledboom,pinch a split shot on the line in place of the swivel.

DROP SINKER

MODELS:Lead, steel, or tungsten; round, teardrop, or cylindrical.

USES:Fishing smallso plastics in deep water.

RIGGING: Tie a drop-shot hook to the line with a Palomar knot, leaving a long tag line to aach the sinker.

TIPS: Aer the sinker touches down, gently pull the line taut without moving the sinker. Then drop the rod tip and let the lure free-fall slowly to the boom.

WALKING SINKER

MODELS: Lead or steel; Lindy-style or banana-shape (boom weighted).

USES:Presenting live bait to walleyes. They’re either dragged over the boom behind a driing boat or trolled.

RIGGING:Thread the line through a walking sinker and tie it to a swivel. To the other side, tie a - to 6-foot (  to  m) 6-pound-test ( kg) leader with a live-bait hook.

TIPS: Banana-type models are more resistantto snags.