Bottom Bouncing Rigs
Submitted by Scaly Man Fish on Tue, 2009-06-16 08:48
As I have little experience in deep sea fishing and am slowly gearing up just wondering what rigs , hook sizes and weight sizes ect the more experienced deep sea guys use.
So I can start making some rigs ready for the day out.
Cheers
Colin Hay
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Coley I don't have the expertise of a lot of the boaties on
here but the most common rig used offshore is a paternoster rig (see links).
http://www.fishsa.com/paterrig.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCroqrr2880
There are many versions of these rigs and a lot of the time it will depend on where you are fishing, what conditions you will be fishing in and the fish you hope to catch in that area.
Ideally you should make up a range of rigs so that you can adapt quickly to what is happening on the day. Also check with the skipper on what the conditions are likely to be like and what rigs he will be using.
Make sure you have a good supply of lead and good strong monofilament leader - anything from 60 to 120 pound breaking strain.
Just a tip - I make up all my rigs before hand (without the sinkers on them) and wrap them around cut up pool noodles. This allows you to store your rigs neatly and you can change rigs very quickly without having to go searching in your bag.
Hope this helps, Colin Hay
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Scaly Man Fish
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Thanks Colin
One of the things that came to mind is how many droppers can you use on your paternoster.
Do you use ganged hooks os single ?
hlokk
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Maximum of 3 hooks or 3
Maximum of 3 hooks or 3 gangs of hooks per line. I think snells would count as gangs? (presuming they are a similar size to the gangs, not meters apart)
Colin Hay
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Coley Normally you would have two droppers
I generally use snelled hooks, but you can use single hooks or ganged hooks if you like.
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crewsy72
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Snap lock sandwich bags are
Snap lock sandwich bags are good to keep your rigs in, u can write on the bags as to what rigs they are.All mine are kept in an old laptop bag in separate compartments.I recently spent 2 weeks in coral bay and had about 120 assorted rigs stored neatly in 1 bag.
crewsy72
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I use 2 droppers unless
I use 2 droppers unless heading out to deep water where i would go 3 droppers.Hurts too much to wind up all the time in deep water, so add the extra dropper!!lol
TGMitchell
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Nice idea crewsy
I tried similar with a ring binder - worked well till the ring binder disintegrated....
The Black Baron
fishy_smithy
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I usually use snelled big red
I usually use snelled big red 7/0 on the paternosta with a 16-24 oz sinker depending on how fast the drift is.
Brock O
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Same as above
above, but have now changed to circle hooks!! best move i made with a big difference in hook ups. Havent drop a fish yet......yet
baron 88
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When fishing off Perth
We use a snelled 8/0 top 4/0 bottom hook set up. Catch a lot of big king George out deep on the smaller hook and the big fish usually take the whole bait and get nailed on the top hook. Seems to work well