Rig help

[kayos]

I think the main reason we could not hook up with the bites on Wednesday was we couldn't work out how to use the rig!

No matter how we tried we couldn't figure out how to the hook line to move on the "strike." These are not the best pics but I am sure you know the rig. Could anyone explain in simple terms to a couple of diddies, how this rig works please?

[stevie-r-@hotmail.co.uk]

Sorry Mark, meant to have a look at that rig with you yesterday, try hanging
it from something and putting a lead weight on the bottom, that should give
you the gist of it, if not, get a couple paternosters (flapper rigs) with smallish
hooks, like a size 4.

[man of the pier]

not 100% sure bbut it looks like a type of dropper rig, if so you hook the link on a loop at top of rig near where you tie mainline, then clip hook into bait shieled, thats wat it looks to me. sorry if am wrong

the hook shaped clip at the bottom is a a rotten bottom link where you tie one end of weaker line to it and other end on to the weight, clip the weight onto rotter clip cast the wieght,it lands on sea bed ,weight comes off and if you get stuck weight breaks off, and you should get rig and mainline back when fishing snaggy ground

[Robthefish]

The rig looks like a dropper rig (or pully dropper or whatever anyone wants to call it)

I use them for clean/mixed ground through the winter for cod fishing as it nils the bait to the bottom.

the swivel on the rig body attaches to the main line, clip the rig clip with the snood on to the rotton bottom clip at the top and put the hook into the bait clip. these will only stay clipped up with weight on!

once it hits the water it drops and slides down the line and it will give fish lots of slack when you strike but it shouldnt stop you connecting.

I tend to only use these for bigger fish like cod that have a habbit of picking up baits and swimming in as it gives the fish more time to get the hook down before it feels resistance and hooks itself, I would consider just a standard paternoster or loop rig better for smaller scratching.

[Blanked again]

Have a look at this link Mark.

http://www.planetseafishing.com/downloads/psf-book-of-rigs.pdf

It's a handy piece of info to keep.

[codcatcher3000]

likely to be a pulley dropper. normally i use 2nil and above when using this. rig , but tis the season to be using smaller hooks so maybe thats why many bites but hard to connect? just a guess

[kayos]

Thanks lads.

Smaller hooks and make up a few rigs of my own is the way to go for later I think. If the rain stops.

That's a great rig site, thanks.

Mark

[codseeker]

best thing to do mate if ya cannot suss it ,low tide drop ya baited rig on the beach attached to your mainline n rod at the watersedge ,walk back to top beach with ya rod and sit till tide as covered your rig and and wait for another 4 hours for a bite if theres nowt about ya probs realise yav wasted ya time and gan yem and phone frank the blank

[davidhayley1945]

best thing to do is make simple two hook flapper rigs with hook lengths two to four feet with size one kamasan type hooks will work on all the beachs. davy.

[Ian Alexander]

best thing to do is make simple two hook flapper rigs with hook lengths two to four feet with size one kamasan type hooks will work on all the beachs. davy.

Sound advice, I agree 100%.

[codfather145]

best thing to do mate if ya cannot suss it ,low tide drop ya baited rig on the beach attached to your mainline n rod at the watersedge ,walk back to top beach with ya rod and sit till tide as covered your rig and and wait for another 4 hours for a bite if theres nowt about ya probs realise yav wasted ya time and gan yem and phone frank the blank

Lmao