acepestdetective

Sweet. Nice one chap, thanks for that will give it a go whilst i'm waiting for a brew then.

Hey all. Have recently started to give snake bite a go as I'm gonna be doing a bit of cat fishing soon so want a coated line to use. The trouble is, with the coating left on the line tends to have a lot of memory when used straight off the spool and ends up looping up in the water as opposed to lying fairly straight on the bed. Anu suggestions?

The basis of the rig are that you tie a piece of elastic just above the hooklink. There is an inline lead attached to the bottom of a length of John Roberts' stiff tubing (about 6'') through which the tag of the elastic is thread thro. The tag is then trapped in place at the top of the tube by means of a tail rubber. The idea is that when a fish tries to shed the hook using the lead as a pivot the elastic keeps a tight line at all times and even if the elastic snaps which it will sometimes this means no safety issue as the mainline runs straight thro to the hooklink. Good luck!