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preferred rigs for all round?

#1 Post by ste c »

whats your preferred rigs for all round shore fishing just seen what peoples opinions are
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#2 Post by yngkmd »

2 hook paternoster on clear or broken ground

float or 1 hook paternoster on rough ground

works for me (mostly)
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Re: preferred rigs for all round?

#3 Post by MC »

clean ground close = 3 hook flapper
clean ground distance= 2/3 hook loop

rough, broken ground mainly pulley rigs or a long and low

rocky weedy ground pulley rig with rotten bottom
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Re: preferred rigs for all round?

#4 Post by JPA »

For the beginner that I am, a 2 hook flapper, size 2, with a plain 3 oz weight is just fine.
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#5 Post by fishmad »

3 hook flapper 80lbs main line 25lbs amnesia for snoods b940's no.2 . everything from 18lbs conger till 7cm flounder
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#6 Post by ste c »

I mainly use 2hook flappers myself startin to use pulley rigs a bit more though lookin at tryin out some different rigs
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#7 Post by lucky13 »

ste c wrote:whats your preferred rigs for all round shore fishing just seen what peoples opinions are
i think it depends on where you are fishing and for what spiecies.for instance in a deep water berth or clear,rock/weed free beach i would use a sheppey,which is a type of 3 hook flapper all running pulley style,with a kind of a short,long and low bottom snood,which is also excellent for fishing new marks,testing the water like...or a long and low pulley,which is essentially an upside down pulley,great for flatties...for rocks a pulley trace,or pennel pulley each with (or without,depending on the sea bed/how many weights you've lost) :) a rotten bottom...although i have a friend who just uses a pennel trace everywhere at all times and has great luck...if needs be i can pm u some of the drawings....
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#8 Post by fishing mad »

If i had to pick just one rig it would be a 7ft 3 hook(size 1/0) clipped down land most fish on that from the small to the big ones
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#9 Post by wack a mack »

2 or 3 hook flappers
but i do have a tendence to use smaller hooks than most people.

i find with smaller hooks i still catch the biggies but also get the odd smaller species aswell.....but no matter what size i use i very nearly always relase them again..... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


i do use bigger hooks aswell on them the odd time but that is when i am going for size and weight not for species count.... :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea:
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#10 Post by smudge1714 »

I always use a 3 hook flapper
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#11 Post by lugworm »

Mostly use 2hooked clipped, pullys, and flappers all vari in size depending on where im fishing and what im fishing for......
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#12 Post by MR RMG83 »

clipped pennel rig or 1 up 1 down rig but going to start to give the pulley a try.
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#13 Post by Monty156a »

Distance: Pennel Pulley rig (up and over for rays)

Close in: Two hook flapper (usually on wire booms to keep snoods apart)

I rarely vary from this apart from an unfortunate daliance with the wishbone craze of last year. It goes down in my book as just a tangle waiting to happen :?

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Re: preferred rigs for all round?

#14 Post by croppyboy »

you only realy need 3 basic rigs
3 hook clipped
2 up 1 down
pulley
these will get you out of most situations
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#15 Post by donal murphy »

i use a pulley rig most of the time, mainly because its so simple to make
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#16 Post by Preston »

Pennel pulley on one rod pulley with small hook/bait on the other . If that fails three hook flapper
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