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What is your favorite Red Snapper Rig?
First time poster here on the Bluewater board and I really like what I have read so far. Lots of good info here. Anyway, here goes my first post.
I know that there are many ways to rig for Snapper and the last few times that I have been out I have done more freeline fishing. The only problem with this method is that when the kings show up they will break you off more times than not.
The other method that I use is to set up a sow rig as some call them. I use an SPRO 330 lb swivel with a 2 to 4 oz egg sinker on top of it. (I put a clear glass bead on top of the knot to protect it)
I then run about 48 inches of 60 lb Seaguar florocarbon leader below it and tie on a single hook (Gamakatsu). I have really downsized my weights lately and have had good success. The bigger snapper that I'm catching are suspended about 25 to 45 feet down below the surface.
Finally, I created what I call the Lumberjack rig ;-) I tie a dropper loop (http://www.marinews.com/fishing/Knots%20&%20Rigging/fk_droploop.htm) and cut the top leg of the loop only leaving about six inches of line on the top leg. I take the bottom leg of the loop and tie on a single hook about 10 inches from the main line. Then I take the line that remained on the top leg and tie a 4 turn lock knot against the main line. Now that covers the loop but you still have 48 inches of line below the single leg dropper loop. I don't waste this line with a mere weight. I tie on either a Snapper Slapper or a Jig head/Berkley Power bait and use this as my weight.
Here is why I do this.
Instead of sending a useless piece of lead down to the bottom, I tie on a Snapper Slapper (3 to 6 oz) and use that as my weight and I tip it with a cigar minnow. My thought in doing this is that why should I be sending down (and reeling up) a useless piece of lead. You can also interchange the Snapper Slapper with a 3 to 6 oz jig head and put a Berkley Power grub on the jig head which is also deadly.
Anyway, these are just some of the techniques that I use. I would love to hear what some of you pros on this board do as well.
Lumberjack93
First time poster here on the Bluewater board and I really like what I have read so far. Lots of good info here. Anyway, here goes my first post.
I know that there are many ways to rig for Snapper and the last few times that I have been out I have done more freeline fishing. The only problem with this method is that when the kings show up they will break you off more times than not.
The other method that I use is to set up a sow rig as some call them. I use an SPRO 330 lb swivel with a 2 to 4 oz egg sinker on top of it. (I put a clear glass bead on top of the knot to protect it)
I then run about 48 inches of 60 lb Seaguar florocarbon leader below it and tie on a single hook (Gamakatsu). I have really downsized my weights lately and have had good success. The bigger snapper that I'm catching are suspended about 25 to 45 feet down below the surface.
Finally, I created what I call the Lumberjack rig ;-) I tie a dropper loop (http://www.marinews.com/fishing/Knots%20&%20Rigging/fk_droploop.htm) and cut the top leg of the loop only leaving about six inches of line on the top leg. I take the bottom leg of the loop and tie on a single hook about 10 inches from the main line. Then I take the line that remained on the top leg and tie a 4 turn lock knot against the main line. Now that covers the loop but you still have 48 inches of line below the single leg dropper loop. I don't waste this line with a mere weight. I tie on either a Snapper Slapper or a Jig head/Berkley Power bait and use this as my weight.
Here is why I do this.
Instead of sending a useless piece of lead down to the bottom, I tie on a Snapper Slapper (3 to 6 oz) and use that as my weight and I tip it with a cigar minnow. My thought in doing this is that why should I be sending down (and reeling up) a useless piece of lead. You can also interchange the Snapper Slapper with a 3 to 6 oz jig head and put a Berkley Power grub on the jig head which is also deadly.
Anyway, these are just some of the techniques that I use. I would love to hear what some of you pros on this board do as well.
Lumberjack93