Mackerel Rigs

[Stanthedog]

Hi

 

Can you tell me exactly how to set up a mackerel rig for shore, jetty fishing using feathers. How do i weight the rig, what size and type of weight, where do I put swivels, how do i attach feathers etc. How long should my rig be, what weight of line. I need a real idiots guide. Many thanks for your advice.

[ColinW]

Hi

 

Can you tell me exactly how to set up a mackerel rig for shore, jetty fishing using feathers. How do i weight the rig, what size and type of weight, where do I put swivels, how do i attach feathers etc. How long should my rig be, what weight of line. I need a real idiots guide. Many thanks for your advice.

 

Buy Mustad shrimp rigs, at £1.50 a go it's not worth making your own. Size of weight just depends on what rod you are using. On a spinning rod you can whack it out a fair way with an ounce bomb, on a beachcaster four is about right.

[Stanthedog]

Buy Mustad shrimp rigs, at £1.50 a go it's not worth making your own. Size of weight just depends on what rod you are using. On a spinning rod you can whack it out a fair way with an ounce bomb, on a beachcaster four is about right.

 

Hi thanks for the info I will purchase a rig

 

I do have a number of packets of feathers which I would like to rig together so I would like to know who to set a rig up myself. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as I am new to sea shore fishing. I am a fly, game fisher who has coverted to the sea as I cannot justifying paying a £60 rod license for the amount of times I can get on a river.

[Stanthedog]

Hi thanks for the info I will purchase a rig

 

I do have a number of packets of feathers which I would like to rig together so I would like to know who to set a rig up myself. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as I am new to sea shore fishing. I am a fly, game fisher who has coverted to the sea as I cannot justifying paying a £60 rod license for the amount of times I can get on a river.

 

 

Any help with building my rigs would be appreciated, diagrams full details, etc.. There must be somewhere out there who can help???

[dbrennan]

Any help with building my rigs would be appreciated, diagrams full details, etc.. There must be somewhere out there who can help???

 

 

Have a look here may be of some help

 

http://www.worldseafishing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72694

[dbrennan]

And here

 

http://www.worldseafishing.com/forums/show...ad.php?t=123226

[ColinW]

Why not just fly fish in the sea instead? Plenty of sea fish can be caught on fly gear - bass, pollack, mackerel, mullet, flounders. Google saltwater flyfishing.

[Ken L]

As said, go with a pre tied packet of 4 to 6 feathers. All you need to do is unravel them then tie a lead on the bottom and your mainline to the top and you're good to go.

[H.A.]

The trouble with many mackerel-type rigs is that they are made of mono which is too light for distance casting. Some of the knots tied by the assembly lines in the Far East are a bit dubious too!

The hooks are often too big (up to 3/0s for mackerel?) as well.

 

I make my own 'feathered' rigs from 70 lb mono rig bodies and add suitable hook size and lures according to target fish. Baited feathers (3 at a time, 4 is not usually allowed) can be match winners in a species hunt (from a boat).

 

I find that mackerel lures are very effective in size 2 O'Shaunessy hooks and go as small as size 12s for sandeel lures.

 

Wrap them with all manner of glittery scaley effect materials or seek out the miniature muppets. A fluorescent or red bead above the lure seems to help too!

 

 

 

The coloured lines are only for visual purposes in the photo. I use clear snoods.

 

[merlino bill]

OI OI,

Cheap enough to buy open it up & copy with your feathers but i was on a boat sat off craster with muppets tipted with rag & the cod came in abundant's plus plenty of mackrel to see me through winter pikeing & winter sea fishing im seriously thinking of selling all my course fishing gear for the same reason, get yourself on a fishing charter boat & you'll never look back, easy fishing but hard work hauling them in sometime's GOOD LUCK.

..BILL