Okay, Carolina Rig Fishing is a; it has it's own little techniques you got to use to make sure you get good hook sets and, and be able to cast a bait. Now you've got your weight way up here on the line, right here and then your, and then your worm or lizard or whatever you're fishing with on a Carolina rig is a quite a bit a waste from that weight. So takes a little bit of practice to, to make this cast. You don't just want to do a, like a snap cast where you just, "Pohh", you know, cast it. What this takes is, is it takes a nice lob cast. It's what we're going to, what we're going to call it. So get your bait out here; get your real setup so as soon as we make this cast and you just want to bring it over your shoulder; loosen it up and you just want to kind of make a nice, easy lob cast. You don't want to put a lot of force into it because if you put too much force into it; your bait twist around your line; you'll get knots in your line. The, the bait goes out, the weight doesn't go out as far as it could be and it just cause a lot of grief. So, so nice lob cast and after a few practice you'll be able to cast that, that lure really far which is the really nice lob cast. Now if you need to cast it further, go to a heavier weight too. And the, and the rod you want to use for Carolina rigging is generally longer one. So you're talking seven-foot; this is a seven-foot flipping stick. I like the flipping sticks and me in heavy action because when you bringing that bait back, you're going to move a lot of line. When you're, when you're fishing in the Carolina rig, you don't want to set the hook and comes straight up. What you got to do is you got to do a sweep set. So as you're dragging your bait, you're dragging it and you're dragging it and you feel that bite, what you want to do is you want to reel down to it and point the, the, the broad right at the line at where you expect your bite is and then you want to do a sweep set. So when you're sweeping it and you moving it and you swing all the way around like this on a clock position; say you go from three o'clock all the way around to nine o'clock and you're going to just; with that longer rod and the sweep set, you're going to move a lot more line and what that does is allow the line for you to; you got to pick that weight up off the bottom and then bring it through to hook the fish. And so by doing a sweep set you'll generally hook most of your fish. Another favorite and very gentle way to catch a bass is, is using a crank bait. This is actually a Lucky Craft with, in a Rick Clang model, 1.5; it goes down about 1.5 meters and we're talking about four to five feet; a square-bill, that's not going to allow it to get very deep and a square-bill gives you a lot wider action, a bigger wobble on the bait than a round bill will and it helps keep it when it's going through the brush or rocks when it hits, it deflects different. It brings the bait, the bait up and over it so it'll go through wood and rocks and a lot of tangles. And this bait doesn't particularly run very deep. Now your bill size on your baits controls, on this type of bait, on how depth, what the depth is that the bait's running. This was only going to run for about four or five feet deep and that, and then from an earlier tip we talked about his line size. So we're using four carbon line; this is twelve pound test and it's going to help get the bait down a little bit deeper and then the smaller the diameter will help your bait get go down deeper. So if you're fishing a lot of grass and you need your bait to ride up a little bit more on the water comb, then go to a model film online and or and a bigger line diameter or you can even stay with your four carbon; just change it, say go from twelve; say let's go to twenty. That will actually bring that bait up a little bit more on the water comb and help it ride and stay out of grass so it's not digging. Now to cast a crank bait what you want to do is, is just pretty much a snap cast. You want the rod to do the casting for you and let it load up. Now I'll cast it out and we got our, our rod pointed at a forty five; our lines coming in; we're really just fasten up to keep really feeling the vibration on the crank bait and then a bite on the crank bait will either be very violent, with a big solid whack or sometimes it just quits; the vibration just quits on you so you got to pay attention to what your rod and your line is telling you to do.
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