Hello New Member - Urgent Help?

[Ricky3112]

Firstly let me start off by saying hello. I am predominately a coarse fishermen but love sea fishing also so will be back. But for now I am trying to create a rig in coarse fishing that allows my length of hook length fishing on the feeder, on the bottom move slowly across the bottom with the flow of the river. Now as we know when casting out your line usually ends up straight(ish) so what I am trying to achieve will not be achieved in this way.

Now I have seen something a while ago that I believe to be involved in a rotten bottom type rig(?) where it would hold the line with hook attached clear until the lead hits the bottom like on rocks for that purpose and then let the rig go, am I right in thinking this? Does anyone know what this little device is called? and how I would present it? All I am looking for is holding my hook length on this device until the feeder/lead hit the bottom and then letting go but because I am using a running rig I want the hook and hook length held up and not down. Please help as you'll be really helping me out, thanks in advance.

Richard

[dave fish]

so you want to use some kind of weight for the casting but then your trying to get the weight to drop off when it hits bottom?not sure this would work if your on a quiver tip or feeder rod as you need the weight to put a bend in the end of the rod and youd lose loads of end tackle if you want the bait to hang off the bottom add some foam to pop it up .
might of completley misunderstood what your on about but hope this helps tight lines

[Ricky3112]

No maybe I didn't explain it well enough. I looked on google and found a "Genie bait clip", this is the kind of thing that I want but found a swivel kind a "Cascade swivel" which holds your hook and bait clear when you cast out and releases when the lead falls to the bottom. But I just would like to know whether I could have this incorporated in a running rig as opposed to a fixed, or semi fixed rig. I want the hook to be attached to the top and not from the bottom as used in sea fishing like the one up one down. My rig would consist of a running weight on reel line (mono), bead, swivel, braid (3ft) then hook and I would then like to attach this hook via this "Cascade swivel". Would this work? I am looking for my hook to pull off this once hitting the bottom and act natural to all the particles coming from my feeder and move with the current, slowly. Will the "Cascade swivel" help with this presentation?

Thanks for your help so far.

[pingu]

if you put the cascade swivel above the weight/feeder on main line to release when hits the deck, sure it would work but would make the rig a semi bolt rig as would stop the weight sliding all way back up
the gemini clips are good but go at bottom of a rig and thats not what you are after

dave

[Ricky3112]

Originally Posted by pingu

if you put the cascade swivel above the weight/feeder on main line to release when hits the deck, sure it would work but would make the rig a semi bolt rig as would stop the weight sliding all way back up
the gemini clips are good but go at bottom of a rig and thats not what you are after

dave

So if I don't intend to have the weight sliding all the way back up this would work do you think?