Flyer Rig

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#1 Post by **Kraken** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:16 pm

Hey All,

have heard lots about these but have never seen a working example

What do i need to make one of these and how do I put it together and use it correctly?

cheers
john.

Conor P · #2 Post by **Conor P** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:17 pm

I think they are boat rigs....

#3 Post by **boycie89** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:23 pm

no they aint !!!

Conor P · #4 Post by **Conor P** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:43 pm

Well I must be thinkin of something else.

#5 Post by **lumpy** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:48 pm

you might be thinking of a flying color cconor. thats used for shadding and gilling. a flyer rig is where a snood length is attached to the mainline after the initial cast is made. this slides down the main line and fishes in the upper laer of water, aimed at catching mackeral, gars and even live baiting for bass..

#6 Post by KK » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:49 pm

Great for bass and flats they usually fish quite close in, and the rest of your trace fishes at whatever distance you put it out, so ya can target fish in close and out deep in the one cast!!!

Conor P · #7 Post by **Conor P** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:52 pm

lumpy wrote:you might be thinking of a flying color cconor. thats used for shadding and gilling

You're right I was thinking of a flying coller

#8 Post by **Kraken** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:57 pm

lumpy wrote:a flyer rig is where a snood length is attached to the mainline after the initial cast is made. this slides down the main line and fishes in the upper laer of water, aimed at catching mackeral, gars and even live baiting for bass..

thats the one lumpy

what do I need to make one up?? and then use it??

cheers,

john.

#9 Post by **lumpy** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:05 pm

ive only used them for macks and garfish and not that extensively. mie was made up of a clip threaded onto the mainline. to this i tied 2 feet of flourocarbon and a size 4 aberdeen. abov this 3 shot were attacher as weight.

i used it when fishing off rockmarks by castin out a baited rig, leaving that settle and then attaching this to the main and leave it slide down the main line..leaving it fish in the upper ;averys. quite useful for catching fresh bait..

#10 Post by **eric** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:10 pm

i use about 5foot of clear flouro, with a small link clip to one end and a size 4 hook on the other. about 1 foot down the flyer i attach a small lead clip to attach the weight.

#11 Post by **countryjimbo** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:45 pm

I was reading an article in Jan IA where the flyer is attached with a link swivel between two beads above the trace and it can slide up the shock leader to the knot during the cast.

Not sure how that would work with the flyer moving during the cast, anyone tried this method?

#12 Post by **fishermannum1** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:22 pm

you are spot on lumpy, it is clipped on to the mainline after you make your cast, baited up with sandeel is great for seatrout.

#13 Post by **Dave** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:47 pm

I've heard of a couple of different rigs all referred to as 'Flyer rigs' but all basically involve an length of line with a hook on the end which some how slides up or down the mainline enabling you to fish at two different depths. Some are attached by a swivel and two beads, others by a scratching boom above the rig, the idea being that they slide back up to the shockleader knot. The other ones I've heard of, and the type I've used myself are what I'd call 'Slide rigs' basically clipped onto the mainline after you cast and slide down the line to the water. I've used a bubble float half filled with water this way, so I could fish a bait right in the breakers as well as further out. Actually caught a couple of bass using this method last year. Another thing I have seen recently are 'Slideaway's', they're actually made by Breakaway but I haven't seen them over here so I just made my own version.

[url]http://www.breakawayusa.com/shop/slideaway.jpg[/url]

#14 Post by **lumpy** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:25 pm

has anyone tried live baiting for bass with thm. thinking of trying a live whiting or pout off them

Rockhopper · #15 Post by **Rockhopper** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:16 am

Neil,

I have always known them to be called either Slider Rigs or a Flying Collar. I have used them with good success many times.....always from rocks or high ground....the angle of the line is important making them not very effective from a flat beach.

To answer your question, they should be first class for live bait if targeting Bass. A tip though...hook the live bait through the eye sockets....right in the front of one eye socket and out of the other....this way it does the bait little harm and it will last for ages....no chance of getting off the hook either.....you wont even see blood if its done properly.

To my knowledge they were first developed in Hawaii where the anglers can only fish from high rocks into very very deep water....the better designed ones will only slide out and wont slide back with wave action, the one in the picture that Dave posted is such a design...wave comes back and the rig will twist and jam, then go out again as the wave turns.

Tom.