 Freshwater Fishing Hall of Famer Mr. Walleye Gary Roach says when you're fishing weed walleyes, you can't beat a live bait rig. But if you're using a standard live bait sinker, it can sometimes cause you to snag up quite a bit more. So what he does is he sizes up the sinker. If he's in an area where he'd be using a quarter ounce sinker, he'll go to a half ounce sinker, but it's a bullet sinker.