boom to snood lenght?

what lenght snoods you use on your boom rigs? people reckon snood should not be longer than boom....what yee think?

8feet snoods minimum :lol: :lol:

6 inch all the way any longer and its back to trapped beads or paternosters!

8feet snoods minimum :lol: :lol:

i only use the 8feet snoods off on 9foot boom to stop tangles. have adapted my rig wallet to take a 10feet of drainage pipe to store them.... :shock: the 3 hook rigs are very hard to cast though :x :oops:

well, i use up to about a foot sometimes, although, you aint meant to going by reports! i have seen others use longer than that to good effect too!

A lot depends what species you are targeting. Short snoods seem to fish best for coalies and whiting down on our beaches.But sadly :D :D :D when you fish the East Cork beaches you never know what will turn up.
So snood lenghts and hook sizes are thrown to the wind. Try target small fish with a size 2 hook and you end up trying to pull in a good size bass conger or painted ray.

Donal, would you leave the East coast lads alone and stop rubbing it in..... The last thing you want is for the whole place to be invaded by a pack of Dubs...... :D

I use booms to prevent tangles when using light lines. My understanding is keeping the snood length below boom length was to prevent tangles. I normaly tie my rigs longer with no problems and its very quick to shorten a snood on the fly for whiting.

Donagh

Donal, would you leave the East coast lads alone and stop rubbing it in..... The last thing you want is for the whole place to be invaded by a pack of Dubs...... :D

haha!! :lol:

agree Phil have used longer with em. particularly for flounder. tight line to lead means the boom jigs the bait with surf/wind moving the line. shorten the snood an you don't get many hits????? fishin wud drive ya mad!!! :?

I use booms to prevent tangles when using light lines. My understanding is keeping the snood length below boom length was to prevent tangles. I normaly tie my rigs longer with no problems and its very quick to shorten a snood on the fly for whiting.

Donagh

agree Donagh, but booms can jig baits in tide or keep baits on the sea bed. think they have more uses than just preventing tangles?

Hi Mark,

I'm pretty clueless when in comes to scratching rigs. What you say makes a fair degree of sense. The SA baits and rigs books mentions they can make baits static and this was good for flounder and dabs. I presume this would be true in a creek situation but I thought in the case of flounders they like a twitched bait. Only thing I could think is prey in this situation would move a short distance and the stop dead still.

Donagh

I use metal booms sometimes when scratching for flounder. I would use snoods alot longer than the booms, say 8 inch boom to 2ft snood. It helps give better presentation of the bait and also keep the bait held down on the sea bed and from getting tangled with the trace body.

Where I think that they really help is when twitching baits or reeling in very slowly to intice a take from a flounder. This seems to be a very popular match tatic now. I noticed that while doing this I always got flounder on the bottom hook because the top two snoods get wrapped around the trace body while using this tactic, leaving the snood below the lead free. Using booms with this twitching tactic allows the 3 snoods to be fishing as they are holding the snoods clear of the trace body, for the flounder to attack. Thats my theory anyway. Only a theory though.

I agree with other posts about coalies and whiting that tear away at baits leading to missed baits. Pier fishing during the winter for coalies I often use a 12 oz boat lead with 6inch booms with 3 inch snoods for the coalies. (fishing straight down obviously) with good effect.

6inch booms with 3 inch snoods for the coalies. (fishing straight down obviously) with good effect.

always missed good coalies using booms to short snoods. longer snood gives em time to take the hook- slack water though.


thanks for replies lads... :D

use 'em twitchin for flats with small blades. can work very well in clear seas when fish need to be provoked!

writing insults on your leads can work too!!!!!! :lol: