Couple of questions...

[The Great Wallsendo]

1. Can you fish the Prom at Whitley that stretches from the Rex Hotel towards Browns Bay?
   
2. What's the simplest rig ever that requires minimal design? IE one hook, one swivel?

[johnf]

There are parts of the prom you can fish. (obviously at high water). The black & white clock part used to be a shot as well as the tunnels in the fenced off part of the main prom. You can fish the "Chair" at high water and also the prom at Cullercoats (back of the north pier) at the pumping station.

You can tie a Knot that gives you a hooklength without a swivel and just tie your sinker straight on the end of your mainline. (unfortunatley I don't know it though !!)

[The Great Wallsendo]

There are parts of the prom you can fish. (obviously at high water). The black & white clock part used to be a shot as well as the tunnels in the fenced off part of the main prom. You can fish the "Chair" at high water and also the prom at Cullercoats (back of the north pier) at the pumping station.

You can tie a Knot that gives you a hooklength without a swivel and just tie your sinker straight on the end of your mainline. (unfortunatley I don't know it though !!)

Cheers John

Aye it's called a blood loop I think...but tying it in such a fashion so as to make a big enough snood is tricky...is there a knack does anyone know - or is it just practice?

[Mogthemackem]

I use the know for making 2 hook flapper for the kids - cheap booms when using shorter lengths and stronger line. I'm sure it's going to be much harder to explain than do though. Put the 2 lengths of your line together the length of the snood you want. You then wrap the looped part around the bottom on your lengths twice making sure you keep a small loop with your finger. Put the full length through the loop which your finger held, wet and pull the lengths. This know won't slip. You would then just put the loop through the hook hole, round the hook and pull. This will look like a double snood and not too sure if it's what you were talking about though. You don't get much simpler than a 3-way swivel with a paternaster rig though. If this totally baffles you I'll show you next time I see you tony

[The Great Wallsendo]

Knots - How to tie the Dropper loop knot

this similar?

Tied a couple of these last night...thing I found is that to have a decent length of snood you'd have to have a massive loop in your hand...or alternatively you could tie the snood on afterwards as you would anyway with a swivel

and does snood length really matter? on the boat you're lucky if you have a 3" snood on some of the ready made traces and yet you still catch fish...

[Mogthemackem]

Same results but mine's a much easier knot. The snood length can be a big factor depending on what fish you are targetting. Flatties obviously feed on the bottom but so do cod mainly. Therefore having a really short snood on a long rig wouldn't be as effective. For whities though I always use 3-4 inch snoods

[Tompa]

There are two good shots on the prom you are on about. Both need a good chuck tho'.

1. Is the stairs in the middle leading down to the rocks. You need to be able to get a bait over the pipe.

2. The south end as you are fishing the same area as the chair.

The prom used to chuck out massive coalies, remember catching them as a kid.

Easiest rig, 1hook and 1 swivel. Has to be a paternoster with a 3way swivel. Thats all we used to use back in the day. None of this 2 hook pennel clipped down flapper pulley rig malarky. Oh and no one had a rottom bottom in that sense, if you know what I mean??lol

[The Great Wallsendo]

Cheers Tony

"Back in the Day" advice is what I'm after

[Lowrider]

I think the snood length need to vary depending on condations and tide.
After all a long snood in a big tide could be no where near the bottom where the fish are.
I tend to have the same rig but with a few differing lengths of snood and guess at the right one then adapt as the session goes on.

[Charlton]

simply tie a blood loop in your line, attached a lenght of line to a hook, make a loop in the other end and loop it through the blood loop, if it snaps, no hastle just attached another hook and line. Or make a big blood loop and snip one end and attach hook, works for carp, salmon and trout, why not sea fishing. Before all these fancy booms came along, anglers used knots to get the desired effect, I think it has become a lost ary.

Yep you can fish from the proms in front of the rex, high water of course, unless you are a good caster.

[=>Tony<=]

When i first started fishing i used to tie a double overhand loop in the rig body and tie snood length onto this, also simple knots for making top and bottom loop 1 for weight and another at the top for a quick release swivle on reel line. Poor design really as loop around wieght damaged easy. But i would now say this was unsafe, but i had to start somewhere

Anyway here is knot

Knot a lot: How to tie the double overhand loop