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Sea Fishing Rigs
How to build a 1-hook boat black bream rig.
Some anglers use a two-hook rig for targeting bream, but when fishing light just one hook is more sporting and better suited to the lighter spinning rod type action.
1. Begin with 60-inches of 30lb Fluorocarbon or clear mono.
2. At one end tie on...
A step by step guide to building a plaice drifting rig.
There are many varied rigs for plaice, but keeping it simple is the best approach. A simple sliding ledger rig often being the most effective.
1. On to the leader, slide on a Zip slider boom, followed by a 5mm bead.
2. To the end of...
Step by step guide to building a boat spurdog muppet rig
1. Take 8-feet of 100lb mono.
2. At one end tie on a large size 3/0 oval split ring for weight attachment.
3. About 30-inches above the split ring, tie in a loop using a blood loop knot. Make sure the loop when the knot is tightened...
A step by step guide to building a boat 2-hook gurnard rig.
1. Start with a size 4 rolling swivel and tie on 12-inches of 60lb clear mono.
2. To the end of the mono tie on a size 4 three way swivel by an end eye.
3. To the other end swivel eye tie on 20-inches of 60lb clear mono.
4...
Step by step guide on how to build a boat bass flying collar rig.
This rig is not for casting so use a light shock leader twice the length of the rod of 20lb mono or better still Fluorocarbon, the latter being more resilient to abrasion when working in to hard structure such as wrecks.
1 -...
A step by step guide to building a boat tope mono rig.
The most popular tope rig is a simple sliding ledger using 150lb commercial mono.
1 - Using a 60lb/80lb shock leader slide on to this a zip slider and a 5mm bead and to the end of the leader tie on a size 2 rolling swivel.
2 - To the...
A step by step guide on how to build a boat turbot spoon rig
Like all flatfish turbot are inquisitive and are attracted by flashing spoons that flutter in the tide representing smaller fish feeding. One of the very best is the ABU Rauto Spoon. The Rauto produced a string of big turbot back in...
A step by step guide to building a boat dab rig
1 - Start with 20-inches of 40/50lb clear mono.
2 - At one end tie on a lead link.
3 - Slide on a rig crimp, a 3mm rig bead, an L shaped wire boom, another bead and a crimp. Secure these in place 2-inches above the lead link.
4 - At the...
A step by step guide to building a boat huss rig
1 - Slide a Zip Slider on to your main line or shock leader
2 - Slide on an 8mm bead and tie on a size 2 rolling swivel.
3 - To the remaining swivel eye tie on a 48-inch length of 50lb clear mono and add a size 6/0 hook. A Viking pattern...
A step by step guide on how to build a boat conger rig.
When targeting conger there is no advantage in adding a shock leader between the braid reel line and the rig as a soft buffer. It’s better to maximise feel and pressure direct through the braid to the conger.
It is best though to add a...
The two-hook clipped up rig was devised from the basic paternoster. It came about back in the 1970’s when the bait clip was first being used by anglers from Yorkshire and the East Coast.
The introduction of bait clips meant that you could use two hook snoods on the same rig body, the two baits...
HISTORY
The original one-hook rigs were just basic paternosters which used a blood loop in the main rig body line to mount the hook trace loop to loop fashion, the hook trace being left free to flap around during the cast. This was common both pre and post Second World War until the advent of...
A common question sent to WSF, is how to tie 2-hook Pennel rigs.
There are actually three types of common Pennel rig you can use. To clarify each one we’ve shown you how to not just tie them, but also detailed their advantages and disadvantages to highlight which types are best used in specific...
A lot of inexperienced anglers struggle to understand the principles of some of the smaller accessory items and it’s easy to do if you’ve never been shown before.
One such item are the Tubertini Grizzly Connectors. These are basically clear plastic beads that can be instantly added and removed...
Whether you’re a competition angler, a happy-go-lucky angler or a specimen angler, every day we fish, we are presented with the same set of questions - where, when, what and how - and each day these questions will have a different set of answers. Isaac Walton said “fishing is like mathematics...
I know a lot of the more experienced anglers moan when they pick up magazines and browse through websites only to see regular rig building features, but the fact remains that for both the monthly magazines and certainly for WSF, the most read articles and the most frequently asked questions are...
The Flying Collar Rig is wrongly thought to be a relatively new rig but was actually devised and developed between the two great wars and originated in the southwest of England for fishing with live or dead sandeel over reefs. Like most rigs it has been refined over the years and has been...
The lead needs to slide on the main line. Some anglers use a zip slider or a swivel with a split ring added running on the main line, but I prefer a coarse fishers ledger bead with a split ring on that I find slides better than the previous two and is plenty strong enough to cast with. Butt this...
If it's sheer numbers of reef or wreck fish like pollack and cod that appeal to you, then this is the one to choose.
Take about 5ft of 75lb mono and either tie on a 3/0 oval split ring, or knot a loop into the end of the line if you want to use a weak link of line. Use two blood loops to create...
The best choice for plaice fishing on the drift, but is capable of catching many more species by varying baits.
The spoons to use are the Delta range. Slide a zip slider or other sliding weight attachment on to the main line and tie a size 6 swivel to the end. Add in 5ft to 10ft of 10lb line...