Help! fishing effectively with your bait.

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I, like Kaleb, was wondering if fishing low (dropper loop, reverse dropper loop, carolina rig, etc.) implied fishing far enough from the kelp that one can be fairly sure that one won't hang up on it at the depth one is fishing.

Jorge's response says yes.

How much weight are people putting on low rigs. I've heard talk of 1-2 oz. egg sinkers on carolina rigs, which seems like it wouldn't take the bait down very deep without letting a lot of line out behind the boat.

Salmon fishing up north, folks use banana mooching weights or sliding trolling sinkers on lines that aren't on a downrigger. They tend to be more in the 12 once to 2 pound range. Seem like one could also tie a torpedo sinker above the bait.