With multiple snoods and extensions, the water pressure may be able to drag your baited hooks out of the strike zone where interesting things happen. In this article I’ll show you how to set up a flapper rig, and will aso cover what bait to use with it, and how to fish it for the best results. What is a flapper rig (and what is it good for)? The fish finder rig is most often fished with cut bait or dead bait, but you can also fish it with live bait, including live shrimp or live baitfish.

The best choice of rig for beach fishing in the UK often depends on various factors such as the species you're targeting, the local tide conditions and the type of seabed. However, some of the most commonly used rigs for UK beach fishing include the pulley rig, flapper rig and pennel rig. These rigs are designed to handle the varying conditions and target species that are typical of UK shorelines. The best readymade sea fishing rigs for Dover sole feature a means to keep the bait hard on the bottom and also include things that will pique their interest, such as fluttering blades and beads or bright sleeves. Think about durability… Fluorocarbon has the same (or better) qualities as monofilament and should also work for the rig body.A flapper rig is a popular surf fishing rig that consists of a weight attached to the end of the leader, as well as two to three hooks rigged on snoods above the weight. As I have already alluded to, the use of a non-balanced, spherical, heavy hookbait potentially creates issues in terms of maintaining the consistency I always strive for—it is enough to make me go all giddy (and reach for a paper bag to breath into to stop me from hyperventilating!). But I also recognise that this specific combination works amazingly well. In fact, the most capable anglers I know who use, and love this presentation, don’t seem to share my concerns about round baits, specifically the fact that they never seem to settle uniformly. Liam and I met Tom in Christchurch Angling Centre, our aim was to target sole along Southbourne. It’s no secret there has been some good numbers coming off the beach in the previous few weeks and it seems that the sole fishing has been very good all over the UK in 2019. Since dropper loops are also used for many other saltwater bottom rigs, it’s well worth learning to tie this knot. For more information, read our detailed guide to the dropper loop rig. Double drop bottom rig

The second swivel should be crimped on the rig body far enough above the lead to allow for your chosen length of snoods (say 2ft) When you use this surf fishing rig with a whole mullet, you first have to remove the double hook, and then insert the metal wire into the mouth of the bait fish, until it comes out the vent, and then re-attach the hook.The pompano rig is most often used in the surf with cut bait and natural bait. Personally, my favorite bait for this surf fishing rig are sand fleas, but you can also use shrimp (live or dead), clam, squid strips, or freshly cut fish. The reason for this is that the weight and the hook are both located at the end of the line, and thus can’t get tangled with each other or with any other part of the rig during the casting process. Pompano, the surfperch, the bream, the whiting, flounder, the puppy drum… are the kind of species we talk about here. These species are generally found around the first sandbar of the surf (typically at 20-40 yards from the shoreline), and thus the casting distance should not be a cause of concern. Moreover, these species usually feed in schools, so throwing multiple hooks may result in multiple catches and should increase your overall productivity.