what rig do you use ?

[gundog]

new thread to get your thoughts, what rigs do you use on your fishing trips, most of the time I use a pennel rig, size 4o/5o sometime feel like I should maybe try a 2/3 hook flapper to see what else is swimming around.

[gary2010]

i normally just use a pully rig, sometimes use just a normaly clip down rig but not sure of the name

[codseeker]

i use the same rigs has the guy that problies posts next

[T.C.]

Depends where and what ground you're fishing over really. I tend to use, (when I fished, lol......but hoping to get back into this soon), a simple pulley rig set up. Sometimes with a pennel hook if using larger baits (really just for better bait presentation and to keep the bait in tact, rather than just adding another hook in the hope). But more often than not, just using a single hook on the pulley - with a lob out over rough ground and in the kelp. The length of the hook snood (depending on the roughness or "kelpiness" - is that a real word?... being fished over) ranging from about 8 inches to 2ft - rougher the ground = shorter the hook length.

The Pulley Rig - NESA - North East Sea Angling - Sea Fishing UK

[Tall Tony]

I've been using two hook flapper's lately (one up, one down) hook size 1/0 or 2/0 depending on the bait i'm using, usually rag tipped with either mackerel or squid.
Reason for using smaller hooks and the flapper rig is mainly flatties being caught down this way at the moment

[shaun]

i use the same rigs has the guy that problies posts next

:d:d:d

just match your rig to the fish you intend to catch. no point using a pully if you fishing clean ground for flatties. same goes no point using a 3 hook rig if you fishing rough ground for cod.

[T.C.]

"i use the same rigs has the guy that problies posts next" CRIKEY - I hope not......I blanked most of the time....hahahaha

[Rod_bender]

For shore fishing I usualy use a clipped down pennel rig, 60lb. rig body with 20lb amnesia snood with an impact sheild. the snood length varies from 12ins. up too about 24 ins. size 2/0 up too 5/0 sakuma hooks depending on what i'm fishing for.
Some times use a two hook flapper rig if fishing the river, and some times use a pully rig if fishing rougher ground, for really heavy ground i just use very simple short snood one hook rig with rotton bottom.

[treeboa]

pennels , pully or pennel pully depending on conditions/bait size


makes no difference normally catch sod all anyway

[spoonface]

Very similar to what everyone else is using, 1 up 1 down or pennel rig with 2/0 or 3/0.

This winter will probably be the same, but I will change snood lengths a I am giving the dvice weights a try.

[backintofishing]

Does anyone use that Artfishing on Ebay? They seem reasonable but with so much choice I have no idea what to get with being a bit of a rookie.

Can anyone tell me which I should invest in for the winter for fishing clean ground?

[Stewart 1971]

Personally I'd be very very wary of buying cheap rigs off Fleabay. They've got to be cheap for a reason (cheap components, shoddy knots etc) and may mean you are a) compromising the safety of other anglers around you or b) risk losing a decent fish if it comes along due to a shoddy rig. Spend the extra ten bob on a decent rig or better still learn to make your own, it is dead easy and gives you something to do when the weather is rotten, the tides are wrong and the missus is watching corrie or deadenders.

And to answer your question for clean ground winter fishing countless thousands of cod have been landed on the simple fixed paternoster rig, hook length of 18" to two foot and a 3/0 or 4/0 hook (I prefer a pennel) stuffed with lugworm.

[codseeker]

a simple clipped down pennel pulley rig i make mine around 2ft plus from 3/0 -5/0 hooks perfect for both mixed ground fishing rotten bottoms for extremly rough or rock marks loaded with lug and rag

[treeboa]

Very similar to what everyone else is using, 1 up 1 down or pennel rig with 2/0 or 3/0.

This winter will probably be the same, but I will change snood lengths a I am giving the dvice weights a try.

been using something similar for years, basically heat the end of some overflow pipe and push it onto the back of any longtail wire wieght, i use disolving foam to block the end off, fill it with any bits to hand, crab, worm, shellfish, works a treat on the mersey with liver for whiting