What is a chicken rig used for?
Chicken Rig is a 3′ rig used for going after Snapper, Porgy, or any other reef fish. You can use almost any kind of bait. The Chicken Rig is ideal on shallow or deep reefs, bridges, and piers.
Why is it called a chicken rig?
The chicken rig is undoubtedly unique and definitely effective. The rig gets its name from its different elements, the “backward wacky weighted Kut Tail,” which makes the acronym “BWWK.” This acronym resembles the sound a chicken makes, and thus, its name was born. It is also known as a high low rig or a deep drop rig.
Do you use a sinker with live bait?
Use a split-shot rig with a sinker.
To keep the live bait at an appropriate depth and control the line for the kind of fish you want to catch, it’s usually common to rig your line up with a split-shot sinker to weight things down.
What is a bottom rig?
It consists of a simple barrel swivel connected to a single leader, with a sinker, bead, and hook at the end. The spreader rig a.k.a. the chicken rig, is a versatile bottom fishing tool because it allows you to cover more ground with its two hooks.
What is a dropshot rig?
A drop shot rig consists of line tied to a hook with a trailing leader that comes to an end with a weight so that the weight is at the bottom and the hook and bait are above it.
What is the best rig for snapper?
With fresh bait as the ideal candidate to target snapper, a 2 Hook Paternoster Rig is the best choice for presentation and hook set. The 2 Hook Paternoster Rig is a bottom weighted snapper fishing rig designed to bring the bait down effectively and easily.
What is Deep Drop fishing?
Deep dropping is essentially bottom fishing at significant depths. Most anglers use electric deep dropping reels to do this.Here in Southern California, we like to use rock fishing rigs. Most of these fish can be found midway or right down on the bottom of the seafloor. Larger fish usually remain at the bottom.
How do you bait a butt hook?
Slide it onto your line without a swivel, tie on the hook, and let it slide right up to the hook. When you pin your bait on and it starts swimming, the weight will slide away from the bait keeping it down, but won’t impair the action of the bait too much because now it’s a few feet away on your line.
What size hooks for live bait?
For live-bait fishing, I recommend thin wire hooks. This style penetrates your bait more easily and damages it less, thus allowing it to move freely on the hook and stay alive longer than when using heavy-weight hooks. Most live-bait hooks for inshore salt waters range from size 1/0 to 8/0.
What is a chicken rig for fishing?
A quick and easy bottom rig to tie is the chicken rig. The rig itself consists of multiple hooks with your lead on the bottom. It presents your bait vertically in the water column, great for schooling fish suspended near the bottom. We often use them to target vermillion snapper and yellow eye snapper off Miami.
What is a pompano rig?
The best pompano rigs are two or three sets of hooks, floats, beads and sinkers that are all tied together with mono filament or fluorocarbon fishing line and finished off with a 1 to 4 ounce sinker. The pompano is a favorite tourist of local surf casters.