Flippin In Heavy Mats Weights

My punching rod is a fitzgerald rods heavy mat flippin rod that s 7 feet 10 inches long with an extra heavy action.

Flippin in heavy mats weights.

It s rarely an all day effort. In this fishing video scott martin talks about how to pick the right weight for flipping heavy mats. Take the punch skirt and slide it onto the end of the line below the bullet weight. Once you have the right sized bullet weight slide the weight onto the end of the line.

The weight is needed to penetrate any type of heavy cover. The heavy metal tungsten flipping weights are ready to help you punch through the thick stuff to catch those big ones. It evolved from the flipping technique that dee thomas invented on the ever changing delta ecosystem. Usually he ll have another rod rigged up with a more standard sized flipping weight but will pick up the bigger tungsten when he comes to cover that demands it.

Step 3 slide the punch skirt onto your punch rig. Flw pro angler scott martin shares his fishing tips and techniques to help you catch more bass. Flw touring pro scott martin talks us through catching big bass in heavy cover with the punching technique flipping fishing out of heavy cover with a big fishing rod a heavy weight and line. The thicker the vegetation you re fishing is the heavier weight you ll need to get your bait down to the fish.

If i can catch em punching and or pitching i will have several rods rigged with different weights and or bait. Ohio pro bill lowen frequently uses weights made by reins a japanese company that manufactures weights up to 2 1 2 ounces. To punch an angler needs a texas rig with a tungsten bullet weight from 3 4 to 2 ounces in weight depending on the thickness of the mats. Flipping weights work great for flipping pitching and punching into heavy cover and weed mats they are also used for the carolina rig flipping docks texas rig plastics they are easy to rig weedless and used to catch large mouth bass smallmouth bass or any other species of fish.

For flipping it s usually 1 4 to 3 8 depending on depth cover and current if a factor. I joke that it s like fishing with a 2x4 but that s not quite true.