The 5" Paca Craw is a great bait for this rig. The hollow body means versatility in the bait providing a cavity to load with scents, a place to hide your hook point to keep it weedless and my favorite, the Lindy Rig Snell Float inserted into this cavity. This is explained later in this tip. Read on!
If you notice in the photo the lower bait keeper barb is on the outside of the plastic. The hook eye is brought deep into the Paca Craw. Visualizing in the photo where the hook eye is in the bait you will notice it is about 3/4 of an inch from the bullet weight. This allows for hook point movement even if the bass has the weight against its mouth. When the hook eye slams into the weight it flips up or down depending on which way it is facing when you set the hook or just pull on your line. Remember this rig is to help you hook fish even when you didn't know they struck your bait.
The beauty is that the line slides in the weight and will pull the hook inside the bass' mouth and before it can spit the bait out your hook set is already in progress. Either the point will find meat or if not the bass must open its mouth much further to clear the hook point.The bobber-stops you see in the first image are important not only to peg your weight where you want it but the bottom stop protects your line all the way through the hook eye. The rubber bobber-stops in my opinion is the only way to go. The ones shown here are made by Eagle Claw.
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