Cowboy's ghost carp (Really Cookie's Cats)

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Cowboy or anybody else; what is the advantage of the Santee rig over, say, a floating jig and regular slip sinker?

Santee rigs were originally developed for fishing blue cats...that customarily cruise and feed above the bottom more than some other catfish species.  But they also work for those other species.  And, as has been suggested, anglers tend to stick with something that has produced on any given day.

Here are a couple of articles I snagged off the internet.