Hook - 1/0 straight shank off-set worm hook. Weight - bullet: 1/16th or 1/8th depending on flow and your river or body of water.
"Prepare the bullet weight by placing it base down on a board or heavy flat cardboard. Using a strong buck knife, insert the point of the buck knife in the opening of the top of the bullet. Put your weight on the knife and push down. This should split the bullet 4/5 the way through down the side. The point of the knife should prevent it from cutting all the way down the lead.
Take the lead bullet and run it past the barb and up the shank. The split will allow you to do this. At the offset, clamp down the bullet with needle-nose pliers. Option here is to clamp down enough just to close the split made with the knife, but not enough to clamp it tight to the shank. This will allow the bullet to run up and down the shank. If clamped down at the offset, this will allow the Mad Tom, when put on the hook, to float belly-down every time to the bottom. It will flip over every time and right itself to belly down.
Tuck the point of the hook in the dorsal of the Mad Tom. You now have a "bubby rig", weedless, weight hidden under the body of the Mad Tom. It rights itself if it lands upside down in the water, goes down nose first like the jighead, and does not get stuck very often, although I have hung it up a few times.
Negative to this rig - one has to retie each time one puts on a new Mad Tom."
A rubber-core sinker can also be used with this rig. Water Gremlin has a sinker called "Bull Shot" which is a bullet sinker with an opening like split-shot. This would eliminate the need to cut a standard bullet sinker.
