Weight A weight is an optional attachment that you can add onto your lure to help it sink deeper and reduce the impact of air drag.                                                                                                                                                                       Image Link Because a weight is optional, and totally dependent on what sort of lure and rod you have, the "best" mass for a weight varies. Generally, you don't want to go over 5oz and the most common is 2oz. As I mentioned before, the trick to minimizing fishing effort is to achieve the perfect reel speed: as slow as possible while still intriguing the fish. According to Alaska Outdoors, good salmon trolling speed is about 0.5 meters per second. Emulating the professionals, 0.5 meters per second (about 1 mile per hour) is the ideal reeling speed, but in order to have your lure not get stuck on bottom, you need to alter the way you reel based on the weight you have attached, and the drag the water can put on your lure and weight.