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Originally Posted by Montauk17
What size weight are yall using fishing the surf? I fished rutherford last year and could not keep the line tight with a 1 oz weight.
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Fishing the surf on the Holly Beach side, I don't think we've thrown anything out less than 3 oz and nothing ever moved without a fish causing it. I know we used 4 oz egg sinkers on the new 12' Ugly Stiks, and no adjustments were needed. Our 8 ft poles are usually rigged with 1 oz egg sinkers, but the children were adding 2 oz pyramids from the tackle box.
When we fish outside the cut by the jetties, we sometimes need more than the 1 oz egg sinker that all the boat rods are rigged with. My daughter (in the front of the boat by the anchor line) likes to add 2 oz pyramid sinkers to her rigs for increased casting distance and to be sure any current that comes up doesn't push her baits back to the boat into her brothers' lines. Crab can catch a lot of current. I'm in the back of the boat in these deals, and I think it's an advantage for the current to move my bait along the bottom, so I cast out more to the sides, and the baits slowly drift to more the back with 1/2 to 1 oz egg sinkers.