Carolina Rig - help needed

[IowaBasser]

I consider myself pretty good with Texas Rigged soft plastics. They are probably my number 1 confidence bait. With no weeds yet this year and the cold Spring, the fish seem to staying away from shore. Most of the fish that I have caught have picked up a T-rigged worm off the bottom in 10 feet of water on a long pause and most have been small 13 to 14 inch bass. When the wind picks up it is near impossible to fish a T-rigged worm on the points I was fishing.

I thought I'd give a Carolina Rig a try in water from 10 feet down to 15 feet, or even down to 20 feet. I bought some beads and 3/4 oz tungsten weights. (at $15 for 4 sinkers; the monkey is still laughing) I tried it in both calm and windy conditions... all I caught was bottom scum. I tried points with both steep drops and shallow grades. I also fished the C-rig in submerged creek channels with no luck. I caught a few small bass on each of these spots with a T-rig but couldn't get a single bite on a C-rig.

Maybe I was just in the wrong location and a C-rig is better suited for a sandy or gravel bottom without the scum that I seemed to be picking up? I realize that some muck on the sinker is to be be expected with a C-rig. The bite was light. Maybe I didn't have the experience to feel the bite with a C-rig? I was fishing with 30 pound Suffix 832 braid as the main line and 3-1/2 feet of 8 pound InVisx Flurocarbon as the leader. I could have tried a lighter sinker... 3/4 oz seemed oversized to me, but with some of the wind we have had and wanting to fish deeper I wanted to start with something heavy. 1/2 oz probably would have been plenty. I'm used to fishing T-rigs with 1/8 or even 1/16 oz bullet sinkers.

Any advice would be appreciated!