uni to uni or albright…24" section of flouro or mono…thread bullet weight…tie on 4/0 ewg hook and rig with your plastic of choice…
there’s your texas rig sans swivel…come to think of it I’ve not seen a texas rigged bait with one.
so to answer your question…you have no idea what a texas rig is…thankfully there’s google images to help you.
anymore brain teasers?
PS: you said one HAD to use swivels to prevent… no one is taking anything out of context so much as calling out an absurd statement.
furthermore, many of my rigs are tied the same. (a piece of flouro attached to braid sans a swivel)
they can be rigged with and for anything from surface presentations to bottom rigs with either live of artificial baits at that point.
we have little issue with wind knots simply because of no swivel…I do not attribute this to being lucky, or being good. I attribute it to keeping lines tight and avoiding as much as possible casting directly into the wind.
xHCFCx
Fish are too valuable to be caught only once.
Think Pioneer meant a Carolina Rig.
06 200 Bay Scout 150 Yam
Thanks DoubleN…my bad…I did mean Carolina Rig.
The Texas Rig does not need a swivel since the sinker slides on the leader and not the main line, however, I still use a swivel to attach the leader to the main line with the Texas Rig also. I appreciate the correction.
As far a using a swivel is concerned in general, everyone has their own opinion and I have given mine. To call it absurd is absurd in itself. I was just trying to point out that in certain situations a swivel can be helpful in eliminating line twist. There are as many different techniques out there as there are fishermen…and a time and a place for everything.
PioneerLouie
Pioneer Venture 175, Johnson 90
Summerville, SC
I’ve used “hardware” all my life fishing here and anywhere else I fish. Swivels and fish finders and such have been mainstays in my tackle box, and will always be so. Line twist, backlash, and overfilled reels are common, and easily rectified via any number of ticks, techniques, or a sharp filet knife. No big deal, and certainly not reason to climb up on a high horse and get all particular and snoby about how many different knots you can tie. My boys grew up catching spotails, trout and flounder on Mickey Mouse push button Zebco’s with store bought double hook rigs complete with more hardware than Home Dept. They learned to tie a clinch knot on cheap mono, keep their bait in the water, and don’t put fish in the drink cooler. Some of you guys make this all out to seem like freakin’ rocket science or something…gimme a break!
Sol Mate
Mako 20B
225 Optimax
The source of the problem is probably that the line has been respooled too loosely after casting if only momentarily. But, just to make sure "line twist’ is not complicating matters, as others have suggested,let all your line out behind the boat with nothing on it. Then, keep a little tension on the line while respooling it. Then after each cast, close the bail by hand and the take the slack out of your line before reeling.
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Originally posted by adam7
I got this new Penn Fierce 4000 rod/reel combo (http://www.basspro.com/Penn-Fierce-Saltwater-Spinning-Reels/product/10209996/121576) last month at bass pro and had them spool it for me with 20lb braid. This is the first time I got a reel that either a) didn’t come with line on it already (this is the most expensive one I’ve purchased to date), of b) I didn’t spool myself.
Now I can’t seem to go through a day without getting a knot in the line after casting it. I spent 20 minutes today trying to get a knot out of the line that formed about 10 ft from me immediately after a cast.
So I guess my question is what can I do about it? Can I try and let all the line out and then re-spool it, or should I start from scratch?
Or is it something I’m doing? Because I’ve never had this problem before but its also the first time I put braid on there.
Thanks,
Adam
2002 Key West 1900CC
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