Advantages of triple swivel over single clipped?

[FuerteStuart]

I have noticed on this forum that alot of people use single swivels with beads like this..




the way ive learned from local fishermen is by using a triple swivel like this...



Are there any advantages/disadvantages of using either method? or is it just a matter of preferance?

thanks

[ctwhitelaw]

Im sure someone told me with a tripel swivel u are more likely to snag than with the single swivel maybe wrong though

[Gremlin]

The whole principle of the single trapped swivel is the 'helicopter rig' developed for carp fishing. It certainly allows untangling in the tide or when a fish is used as bait or hooked.

The fixed three-way swivel is not nearly as effective, but has its uses as a simple paternoster especially when used over rocky ground with a weak link bottom and heavy snoods.

Velas offer a (Varivas?) three-way swivel which seems to incorporate the best of both -
https://www.veals.co.uk/acatalog/Swivels.html
(scroll down)

My match rigs incorporate a trapped single swivel and a short piece of 1mm tubing over the lower part of the swivel.

[FuerteStuart]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

, but has its uses as a simple paternoster especially when used over rocky ground with a weak link bottom and heavy snoods.

Hmm, you seem to be speaking a different language there mate. Ive learned to fish mostley from Spanish and Portugese fellows and that terminology is alien...

Anyone care to translate?

[Gremlin]

Originally Posted by Gremlin -

.... but has its uses as a simple paternoster especially when used over rocky ground with a weak link bottom and heavy snoods.

Paternoster (Good ole' Bert!) - hooks attached above the lead ....
single hook paternoster might be rigged as follows (for distance casting, it's clipped behind the impact shield)


A weak link/rotton bottom is for fishing 'in the rocks' when it's better to sacrifice the lead alone, rather than the whole rig.

http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/ro...ottom-rigs.php

or simpler still -


I call it a Kid Rig only because I get guys to tie them for the kiddies day each year on South Parade Pier, Southsea.

OK???

[EX Londoner]

Hey I like the idea of using a old spark plug, must take a trip to my repair garage, and get a few help to recoupe the cost of the repairs they have charged me for.

[FuerteStuart]

Thanks for the translation Gremlin

I can just picture your local fishing spot, dozens of spark plugs stuck at the bottom!

[Gremlin]

I can just picture your local fishing spot, dozens of spark plugs stuck at the bottom!

Not mee, mee boy!

I'm a southern softie. Clean sand and a bit a weed ... if yer gets mee drift!