Few Bassmaster Elite Series anglers have a bigger appetite than Terry “Big Show” Scroggins. His grill skills are large, and so are his Carolina-rigged weights.  

In 2008, at Falcon Lake, Texas, the Toyota pro drug up the second largest five-fish limit in B.A.S.S. history with a Carolina rig – five monsters totaling 44 pounds, 4 ounces. Right now, as bass all over America are in some phase of the spawn, few presentations work better than the ‘ball and chain.’

There’s nothing fancy or secretive about Scroggins successful approach to Carolina rigging – just go big!  “I don’t mess around with 1/2-ounce or 3/4-ounce weights unless I’m in really thick vegetation.  If I can get away with it, in rocks, shell beds, pea gravel or clay, I’m going to use a full 1-ounce lead egg sinker every time,” said Scroggins, who has won more than a million dollars faster than most in professional fishing.

“There’s two reasons I use a big 1-ounce lead egg sinker on my Carolina Rigs," Scroggins said. "First, with any water current at all, that egg shaped weight will roll across the bottom, so you don’t have to impart a ton of unnatural action. You can sort of just hold your rod still and let the big heavy egg impart all the subtle action by rolling around.  Second, when you do move it, that big 1-ounce weight creates a bigger disturbance. But I think the rolling action has as much to do with the success of it as the heaviness does.”

Scroggins uses a 4’ long, 15-pound test monofilament leader, and 20-pound test mono for his main line. “You can buy a 1-ounce lead egg sinker at just about any tackle department in America.  It’s what I grew-up fishing with as a teenager in the St. Johns River 25 years ago,” said the always easy-going Scroggins.  

And still today, at age 41, big lead eggs are working just fine for “Big Show” on bass fishing’s biggest stage.