Fishing Rigs - Making you own Fishing Rigs

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Fishing Rigs - Making you own Fishing Rigs

How many of you guys and girls make you`re own fishing rigs ?

I must admit I am terribly lazy I buy some rigs but with winter coming I`m thinking of spend the windy wet days and start building up a good rig selection up

So what advice would you give on what kit you need to build your own fishing rigs - crimps (size) beads ect

What fishing rigs are must have in your rig wallet ?

Look forward to your posts as I know that you guys make great fishing rigs

[Ben]

i started off buying all my rigs but i found 2 main probs with this,
1 is that you can never get what you really want
and 2 is they are so exxpencive
i then started making my own rigs
im my experience you can never have to many hooks, line, beads, swivels etc...
evrytime i go in the tackel shop i buy more hooks and get home only to find i still dont have what i really need
as for line, i started off using the cheapest i could find but was having probs with knots on that so now i use memorex
must have rigs are,
simple 1 hook rig (can never have to many and usualy seem to outfish my other rigs) but somehow i never seem to have any
2 hook boom rigs (very useful for close work)
wishbone rig
pennel rigs, can hook both large and small fish on any size bait, brillient fish catcher
a good thing to remember when 1st starting making rigs is to start simple and then get more complex and make sure youu are willing to spend money on stuff you need like swivels (can be expencive when 1st starting and also if a compulsive spender like me)
hope this helps any1 starting rig building, can be great fun

[JuanPablo]

my rig wallet consists of;

one-hook clipped rigs (for long range, big bait normally with pennell)

two hook clipped up rig (for long range, small fish - hooks are clipped upwards to stop wormbaits being blasted up the snood during the cast)

two hook boomed rigs (good for close range scratching and estuary work - brilliant on piers aswell )

bomber rigs (allows a short snood and a very long snood normally clipped for distance)

wishbone rigs (good scratching rig - allows two different baits to be fished next to each other)

pulley rigs (rough ground, big fish - clipped for distance)

as far as components go i am like ben and prefer to get too much!
critical components i think are;

60lb Suffix
15lb Amnesia
20lb Amnesia
30lb Amnesia (i normally use clear just incase!)
QF Swivels (male and female to allow quick rig changes when double-patting)
Breakaway Escape Links (for rotten bottom rigs)
Breakaway Fast Links (for link to lead)
Impact Shields
Relay Clips (for clipping hooks or flowing snoods)
Size 10 swivels
Size 8 Snood swivels
Sequins or beads
Drennan Medium Copper Crimps (or cheap equivalent preferably!)
Neoprene Tubing or Rubber Tubing
And then I like Mustad Vikings for heavy work and Kamasan Aberdeens for match work.

Dont forget a pair of crimping pliers - they only cost about a fiver.

[Ben]

i use my leather man for crimping n cutting n evrything on rigs, just the trick cause of the needel nose pliers
another must have which i have only recently found out about is shrink rapping tubing stuff (normaly used for electronics)
use it for pennel rigs, hold a lighter under it for abit n it shrinks around the hook and line and is brillient, comes in all different sizes

[JuanPablo]

yeah somebody bought me a Gerber MUlti-tool from America but I broke one of the plier arms clean off when trying to crush lead! leatherman are by far the best multi-tools on the market.

[Ben]

thye are amazing, i carry a leatherman wave on my belt and also have a leatherman micra on my keys, very useful and sharp
i do prefer using a poket knife some of the time though, like 1 of the whitby knife knives
o yeah bk onto the subject, for crimps i just use cheap 1s off ebay brought by the 100

[kiwimarty]

A good helpful write up Juan.

[Ben]

this has prompted me to do a complet overhaul of my rig wallet, repairing n making new rigs

[kiwimarty]

Tell ya what I've started going..........when making my rigs up, I now leave the snoods and hooks off!!

This allows me to attach what I actually want at different venues.

What do you think?

[FlyingFox]

Dont think i have ever brought a made up rig before!

been making my own or borowed them off a mate when i first started and after a year or so i managed to get quite good at making them for diferent venues and fish and didnt feel buying them was the right way to go about it!! your not wrong about leaving the snoods off till you set up as they are a bit of a pain in the butt when they get twisted up and you have to take five mins sorting em out!! i now have three rig wallets full up so i dont need to swop and change them from bag to box and that when planing a trip!!!