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Here's a few well
recognised basic rigs for reference including a brief description of
the best situation for each. Click on the rig type below for details or scroll through the selection.
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RIG
10 - MULLET RIG
Called
a Mullet rig as this species is best fished using groundbait
where the groundbait can be packed into the feeder and slowly
released attracting the Mullet to feed. However, it is a great
rig for any species where groundbait plays a key role. |
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Step 1
Thread your main line through a sliding boom which offers
a central attachment link. Tie a swivel to this link and then
tie the feeder to the other end of the swivel.
Step 2
Next, thread a bead onto the main line of the rig and attach
the end of the line to another swivel. The bead will protect
your knot from being worn by the sliding boom.
Step 3
Then take your hook length trace and attach it to this swivel
with a Uni knot.
Step 4
Finally, attach the other end of your hook length trace to
your chosen hook. |
 Shakespeare Tube Boom
Coloured beads
Bronze Barrel Swivels
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RIG
11 - CLIPPED RIG
This
rig allows you to clip your hooks to the main central line
of your rig whilst casting so as to improve streamlining and
therefore gain extra distance. Forbidding the hook lengths
and rigged bait from flapping about in the wind also reduces
the amount of damage inflicted on the bait's presentation
so that it reaches the target in the best possible state. |
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Step
1
Tie a swivel to the end of your main line. To the other end,
attach a length of leader line.
Step 2
Slide on a Breakaway Impact Shield baitclip and then a crimp.
Next slide on a bead, then a swivel, then another bead and
attach another crimp.
Step 3
Repeat the above to trap another swivel and secure at the
correct position with crimps
Step 4
Select another Breakaway Impact Shield baitclip, turn it upside
down and slide it on to your line. Finally attach your lead
weight to the end.
Step 5
Attach your selected hook lengths to the two swivels with
just the right length of line so that when the hooks have
been attached and the main rig line is straight, they just
clip over the baitclips as shown.
Step 6
Attach your hooks, add bait and clip them in place. |
Breakaway Impact Shield
Coloured beads
Bronze Barrel Swivels
Crimps
Sea Bomb Lead
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RIG
12 - RIGGING A PLASTIC BAIT
When
rigging a jelly worm or plastic shad bait, you will need to
get the hook positioning right so that the bait falls well
in the water, doesn't spin and provides you with a good hook
set when the bait is taken. |
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Rigging
a worm
Pass the point of the hook through the nose of the jellyworm
and out of the body about a cm away from the entry point.
Push the hook shank all the way through so that the eye of
the hook is right up next to the jellyworm. Turn the hook
through 180 degrees so that the point is then facing down
onto the body of the jellyworm again and place the hook into
its body as shown making sure that the final result is a straight
jellyworm.
Rigging a Shad
Using a wide gape hook, pass the hook point through the nose
of the Shad as with a worm and feed the Shad onto the shank
of the hook all the way until the hook is able to exit the
body in the centre of the Shad's back. If the hook exited
the Shad through it's belly the Shad is likely to spin on
the retrieve.
If you find that the Shad still spins you could use a lead
head hook (a hook with a weight at the top of the shank as
shown in the picture) which should stop the spinning. |
Jellyworm hooks
Jellyworms
Shads
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