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The weight of the jig head will definitely have a lot to do with how many snags you’re getting, but sometimes you have to use that heavy jig head if the current is ripping so you have no choice. One thing I do when I’m jigging a spot with a lot of snags is pop that jig head really hard when I’m jigging it. If you’ve ever watched any of Chas Champagnes videos, notice how hard he jigs his rod. He pops it like he’s trying to rip that jig head out of a pile of concrete. That’s sort of what I’ll do and it’ll help pop that lure up over the snags. If they’re really tight up on the rocks, you could always use a lighter jig head to keep it suspended above the snags longer. You could also reel faster to not let your lure catch the bottom, but yesterday that wouldn’t have worked out. They wanted it slow and dribbled on the bottom (small little twitches). Snags are just part of fishing the bottom though. Gotta learn to live with them lol. I saw @Daniel_Gig said in one of his reports recently that if you aren’t getting snagged, you aren’t casting in the right spots. I think there is a lot of truth to that. Yesterday though, once we found out that they were hanging out further off the rocks, we didn’t hardly get any snags.