Neko weights, why?

[Oldfart9999]

Back in the day, before tungsten Neko weights there was roofing nails, finish nails, coat hangers to cut up and heavy duty dykes to cut them. A box of roofing nails will last you all year or longer and costs what, 5$. #3 common finish nails were the first weight for wacky worming, stuff 1 in the nose and that bait is nose first to the bottom. So go ahead, spend all that money on tungsten or lead weights, or you could save a bit and spend it on baits to use those nails with. Fool the monkey, get more for your money.
Rodney
PS, about those coat hangers, you can cut a whole lot of different size weights from coat hanger, that's one of the reason you have those dykes.

[Captsteve]

Good tip

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[Smallie_Stalker]

 I remember those days. Great tip Rodney!

You can also use the shaft from a rivet after the gun spits it out.

Buying the modern weights generally has 2 marginal advantages for me. One,  I know the different weights so I can control the fall rate without a lot of guess work and two, the stair-step design seems to grip the plastic better. If you leave a small portion sticking out to make a tapping sound on hard surfaces it seems to stay put better than a round roofing nail or the like.

Of course on the downside that stair-step design tears your plastics up a lot faster too so that's a trade-off.


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[jwkelley51]

I've got some weights but never used one. I still use the dry wall screws. They're not coming out...the bait will fall apart first.

[Smallie_Stalker]

I've got some weights but never used one. I still use the dry wall screws. They're not coming out...the bait will fall apart first.

Definitely. Most anything with a thread on it will stay put!

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[FlatsNBay]

"Fool the monkey, get more for your money"

Great line!

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