Losing a lot of hooks and sinkers...help?

[OldTimer]

As said by others.......... you will get lots of snags when fishing any rig on bottom.

Also as said above - the location of the sinker on the bottom of the stack up may help.

Here's a few more things:

Use the smallest hook size and hook "gap" for the situation.

Use the lightest weight sinker necessary for the situation and current.

If you do use a bell sinker on the end of the line, and it's always hanging up - tie it on with a granny knot that you know will fail well below the breaking strength of your line, yet will stand up to cast stresses........... a type of sacrifice rig. And while we're here - who said that "sinkers" need to be those expensive items specifically designed/sold for that purpose.......... I regularly use old scrap/surplus steel bolts, nuts, or other pieces of metal as "sinkers" - they're free and most will actually safely biodegrade (rust) away to nothing , unlike lead, cadmium, non-ferrous alloys, or tungsten and their negative effects on the environment and waterfowl digestive systems.

Some sinker shapes and profiles are more prone to jamming or hanging up than others (ie bell is worse than walking, egg is worse than folded ear).

Sometimes use of multiple pinch-on sinkers rather than one heavy sinker helps........... depends what your snagging........... this same thing - if on the end of the line might sometimes only lose you a few of the stack up of pinch-ons............

Avoid excessive amounts of slack in your line - complete uncontrolled freedom promotes the rig finding it's way into the wee nasty crevices.

Plus - make mental notes of what rigs work better in the locations you frequent................ perhaps you will discover a pattern and develop a preferred method for your haunts.

Cheers,

OldTimer