Alan L wrote: Kitno - you are crimping the hooks to the main line and their trace? Alan |
smudge wrote: I tie them on the boat. Too easy. It only takes a minute then I'm not tied (great pun Smudge) to anything in particular. |
Steps wrote: Something playing with atm, well for a while is the plastic squids lures on the ledgers and using a heavy lure for sinker at the bottom. |
MB wrote:
I'm not much of bait fisherman, but that makes a lot of sense. |
Pcj wrote: Dropper style from early maori,have photo but not clear,seemed praticle,keeps hooks out from mainline and hooks were wooden,must of worked. had another interesting club there too Tuna basher when landed,so must presume pre european times that tuna were relatively close to shore In the process of making something simular.Using thin clear hosing,6mm to hold line out,should be stiff enough?? |
Steps wrote: Pre tieing, as against tie on the boat comes back to if dont have a hook in the water you dont catch fish.. To quick tie a trace, espec a ledger, getting lengths right, good knots, and thats after digging thru the tackle box to get everything out, in a rolling boat... As against, damaged trace, or a hook down the gut, drop trace off the mainline clip, select another in a marked /files zip lock in the draw under the bait board, clip on , bait up and go..Im still collecting my liner spools, winding endless 3 or 4 pre hooked hooked traces on. Its hook the small top loop on the mainline clip, unroll to bottom of sinker loop, snip off the next on the spool.. (see pic previous page, the spools in and around the plastic box and ledger tieing jig) And pre tie no damn tackle boxes floating around the deck floor.. Something playing with atm, well for a while is the plastic squids lures on the ledgers and using a heavy lure for sinker at the bottom. We are targeting off the west coast larger snapper/ ky Started on the thought of big bait.. etc.. so big plastic squid lures... more than once lost the lure and just bait consistently better results in hook ups. So go to small 2.5/3cm squids, with and without bait, hook ups.. most with bait thu. Have been rather surprised in last 3 trips out how effective, doing around 500/750mm jigs on top of a 1 m swell and small chop on top... with or without bait. Combined with the above, is when tie the ledger, take into account the natural curve of the trace as it comes off the spool, using that in the right direction to have the hooks stand off from the backbone. A few yrs back I was messing with twists, and little spring thingys (use on game fishing I think) and an old m8 just mentioned... use the natural curve in the trace line.. I found this hard to do tie 'freehand'.. but on my ledger tieing jig, winding the spool around the pegs makes it so easy.. (see pic on previous page) Using the jig as a sinker (100/120gm +) works real well, till a shark breaks of the trace...that gets to be expensive 'sinkers' even out of the bargain bins... Besides the expense, damn work real well, espec gurnard, and so often a 2nd good snapper hook up on the way up. |
Kandrew wrote:
Also Jarvis Walker used to sell a flasher rig with one of their crome jigs on the bottom for the weight, never used one. https://www.marine-deals.co.nz/flasher-rigs/silstar-jig-em-squid-flasher-rig-5cm-77633 |
MB wrote:
There's all sorts of rigs and contraceptions out there in the wider world. If you Google "paternoster boom", it will give you some ideas. |
MB wrote:
There's all sorts of rigs and contraceptions out there in the wider world. If you Google "paternoster boom", it will give you some ideas. |
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