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| I think that there are two trains of thought as far as weighting goes, but I might be wrong and probably am.
You can weight a lure at the center of gravity, and get a lure that looks left-looks right etc.
You can also weight the lure nose and tail, which seems to give the lure more glide and roll.
Either way, you have to determine the rate of drop that you want, and that is all experimenting. Faster sinking lures may give up a little action, while trying to neutrally weight a lure takes time and varies from lure to lure. When I try to make a neutrally buoyant glider, it will usually float with it's back just out of the water until I add the hooks. Sounds pretty precise, because it is.
How deep you place your weight is another subject. Leaving weight at the belly of the lure gives you a stable lure. I weight all of my lures just below the center line, and then fill in the rest of the hole with epoxy and wood filler. This gives the best roll and flash, because your lure is trying to flip over when you twitch it, but the weights stop it from happening and then it rights itself, hence the flash and roll.
That's the readers digest version, but I'm sure there will be more. Check the archives because this has been discussed many times.
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