Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a fishing line has a weight attached to a lower end thereof, with the upper end of the line typically attached to a pole or rod & reel operatively, and the line has snapped thereonto a slip-ring slidable down the length of the line from the upper end of the line to the weighted end in the water in use, and with a leader and hook with bait suspended from the slip-ring, the slip-ring being of a size sufficiently small that it does not slip-over the weight.