Recommended boat rigs

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shortcircuit
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Recommended boat rigs

#1 Post by shortcircuit »

Right

I hope to do a bit more boat fishing this year, so I want to extend my boat rig use to further than feathers, baited feathers and flying collar rigs for lures.

I know for shore fishing, I really only use two rigs - pulleys and flappers, in slightly different variants.
What I want to know is- what are those couple of rigs that you come back to again and again, that cover a lot of bases.

I want to spend an evening tying a few straightforward rigs that will cover me for the coming year's fishing.

All ideas, information and links to diagrams are welcome!
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Re: Recommended boat rigs

#2 Post by Paddy002 »

2019 Species:
Codling, Whiting

2017 Species:
Mackerel, Dog Fish, Whiting, 3 bearded rockling

2016 Species:
Pouting, Cod, Coalfish, LSD, macks, pollock, dogfish, Bass, Eel, Garfish, Ling, conger, yellow fin tuna, Skipjack Tuna, parrot fish, Trigger fish, Scad, Conger, whiting

2015 species:
Codling, sea bass, mack's, flounder, Dab, three bearded rockling, coalfish, dog fish, bull huss, ballen wrasse, Pollock, European eel, cuckoo wrasse, ling, conger,scorpion fish, cod, pouting, blue shark, whiting
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Re: Recommended boat rigs

#3 Post by shortcircuit »

hi Paddy - don't worry I have that PDF well read !

Just looking for people's personal experiences, favourites etc
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Re: Recommended boat rigs

#4 Post by rushnaldo »

Keep it simple. Use a boom for flattie fishing. Same as the shore beads or no beads 3 hook traces and sometimes add a spoon. And 3 hook without the boom off the bottom for other species like whiting gurnard etc. Same over the hard for wrasse and cuckoo and so on
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Re: Recommended boat rigs

#5 Post by keymcg »

Same as rushnaldo. On the sand I sometimes use a 2 hook spreader bar too. Simple to use just vary the hook size depending on the target species. 2's or 1's for the flatties up to 3/0's or 4/0's for the rays.
Try two up one down on the hard. You can keep your lead off the bottom while still having a bait hard on the bottom. Easier to pull for a break if it's just a snood that's stuck in the rough stuff rather than your main rig body.

Tight lines


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