Abstract: A line carrier weight for use with a downrigger fishing apparatus for carrying a fishing line down the downrigger cable to a designed fishing depth above the downrigger ball. The carrier weight comprises a generally cylindrical body having an axial bore of a predetermined diameter greater than the diameter of the downrigger cable with which the carrier weight is to be used. Formed inwardly in the opposed bases of the cylindrical body are inwardly sloping, internally directed radial grooves leading to the axial bore, the radial grooves being in alignment with one another along radii which are 180.degree. apart. A radial slit is cut through the cylindrical wall of the body and it leads to the axial bore. The width of this slit is only slightly greater than the diameter of the downrigger cable.