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0:00 hey guys today I want to show you how to tie a really simple one hook bottom fishing rig that you can learn to tie and use when you're on the fly in the field if you ever need to tie up a rig really quick this is the one to do it with really simple let's get into it hey hey everyone today I'm going to be showing you a really really simple one hook bottom fishing rig I have always needed a really quick rake to go to especially when I'm doing something like tog fishing or bottom fishing in an area where I get a lot of snags I used to do a lot of dog fishing tog tautog black fish these fish are notorious for taking
0:45 your bait and running it into a rock so when you set the hook you have to reel in really quick and sometimes it gets stuck on a rock and you lose the entire ring that's the game you have to haul them up and out really quick but the game requires a lot of rigs because you lose them left and right I have this go-to rig that I can just tie on really quickly it's really simple it's one single hook with a weight at the bottom and if I lose the rig I tie it up again it takes me like 30 seconds and I'm back in the game this is a really important rig that I think that everyone who does fish fishing should really know how to time so this is since this is such a basic rig I want to keep everything really simple I want to show you guys how to do it so it's really easy for you
1:31 to tie it up I'm going to be tying it up using this colored line right here but I'm going to show you what actual line you're going to be using later this line is really visible so I'm going to show you be able to show you guys exactly how I move my fingers to get this tied down and that's something that a lot of people have been expressing to me is that they don't know how the fingers should be they don't know how they should the line how long the line should be what kind of line I'm going to be trying to explain as much of that as I can today in a very simple way so that you guys can tie them up yourself get out there and start catching some more fish let's get to our materials list first off I like to have all my gear inside my waterproof bait boxes and you know you guys say I talk about
2:17 these a lot that's because I use them a lot I created these so I can use them myself like it's a problem that I'm solving for myself and I just happen to want to share it with you guys so in these bait boxes I keep not just my bait but a lot of my pre-tied rigs already this is the high low rig and these rigs are really nice because I made them for people who are too lazy to tie also for people who can't see as well anymore and they need help with their rigs tied also for people who have finger disabilities who can't tie rigs themselves these are very helpful for them or just people who want to just go fishing catch a lot of fish right away and not have to worry about it and my materials
3:03 are in this box right here this is my big Bait Box and in here I keep all my hooks my terminal tackle like swivels and stuff see I have these floats too that we also have in our store I think we're actually about to sell out of these all right so here's the materials list okay you're gonna need fluorocarbon of some sort pyramid sinkers or just whatever Sinker that can clip on you're going to need snap swivels here two-way swivels for the top and you're gonna need some kind of hook pick the sizes that you like um and the sizes all really depends on
3:48 the size of the fish that you're going for if you're catching fish that you know are going to be about this big um I say a hook size two out Hook is probably going to be fine something like something like this is not going to work for a fish this big don't even think that it will and throwing something like this um with a big piece of bait on there and the wrong line can just get you a big mess so just kind of listen to my advice on how I'm tying this up first before you start getting a bunch of ideas as to what rigs you can tie up so first off I'm going to show you how to tie two different ways okay the first way is when you're really really in a rush and you need to tie it really fast okay it's really simple knot now there's a lot of different names for the same knots just
4:36 remember what it looks like and just remember like there's no real official name for these knots I like to just think of them as what they look at what they look like rather than like the official name this one is the first loop knot that will hold your hook right so the easiest way to tie this say you're on the field you really need to tie it up fast you're going to pinch you're gonna hold it like this this is how long your arm is going to be right I usually like to have my arm about like seven to eight inches long so this is a great length right here then from there I'm just going to tie a knot like this right I'm gonna hold it here twist it once twice and sometimes one more time for good
5:22 measure right then there's a Twist then you push this through the loop that you just made and then you have the beginnings of a knot don't just pull it really fast if you pull it really fast you're going to lose the knot what I like to do is I like to wet it first with a little bit saliva this is just an example because this is not won't slide the same because this is made of some kind of like braided fabric material but the actual fluorocarbon you'll be tying with this material slips with the spit so get it wet and then just slowly slowly pull it like this and you can see how the you can see how the knot comes together
6:08 and then give it a nice Titan right there that's the first knot right there okay this is a great quick knot to tie that's pretty strong really fast to tie and then from here you put on a hook and it's really simple to attach these hooks and I like to pick this kind of hook here because of the eye I in itself is bent this way you see how it's bent versus a straight eye like this this is straight this is bent right okay so with this hook like this we're just gonna feed it in here like this
6:54 and you'll see why I like the eye bent like this you feed it through this new Loop you put it through the hook and you pull do you see how the line sits on here like this it gives it a straight pull so when you set the hook it's not off balanced now let me show you what I mean by off balance I'm going to put on this hook right here you see how when you pull look at look at this look at this this is not it'll still work but to me it bothers me okay you see how this hook sits so perfectly and we're pretty much done the rig now
7:40 we got to tie the tops and the bottoms this is the first way to attach the hook the next way is a little bit more involved but it's a better it's a better knot it holds stronger it looks better and uh it's a little bit harder to tie so I'm going to show you this one this one is officially called a dropper Loop and what we're going to do here is we're going to make a loop a circle like this you see Circle and we want it to be around eight inches long right and with this circle you want to line up both both sides of the line like this kind of like two train tracks right and then from here I put my fingers like this I mean my pointer fingers are
8:25 holding it my index and my thumb are holding the lines in between and then from here I'm going to twist twist twist five times I just like to do five you can do more here's seven okay then you see this line right here this line we take and pull it through I use my teeth here cool and then we gently tighten it and if one side starts to go faster than the other pull it out use your fingers and pull it out and fix it and then just slowly
9:12 foreign that's a dropper Loop thought this one I'm not sure what it's called but it's a quick knot this is the lazy way this is the more advanced way and it gets even more advanced from there but we're going to keep it basic today now the next knot I want to show you is the improved clinch knot and there's only really two knots that you need to know to tie this rig this is going to be for the sinker and for the Sinker I'm using a snap swivel here this is a size 3 125 pound test I like it about this size
10:00 see about this size we're going to put it through the loop put your finger down one two three four twists around that line put it back through that first Loop and then you see this new Loop that you made put it through that Loop and then pull and that knot is done just like that you're going to tie this two-way swivel to the top as well using that same knot okay so now I showed you how to tie the
10:48 knots on this colored line I'm actually going to show you how to tie the ring so I'm going to use this 30 pound leader line right here I'm going to use these uh two-way swivels these are honestly too heavy but it's what I've got right now I'm going to show you how to it still works that's the thing a lot of people think that there's only one kind of swivel that you can use these swivels are a tool to help your line from not getting tangled this swivels so your line doesn't catch a Twist so it doesn't really matter the size I like to be a little bit picky and on the pre-tied ones they're done with exactly everything perfectly the way that I want it this way it'll still work but it's not it's a little too heavy for me it's kind of an eyesore to see such a big swivel when you don't need it that big a good
11:34 general rule is use as little as you can just to get away with it goes for the sinkers too you don't want to use such a heavy Sinker that like you can't even feel the fish biting just enough to hold the bottom same thing with these swivels and the hook size just big enough to hook them just big enough to uh do the job right so let's get started on this tying though let's get started on the build this should be really simple okay first off I like to start with just putting the Sinker on right we're going to show the same way we're doing the same time except this should be easier to tie than this I only did this one so you can see it better right you're gonna one two three four five twist it around there five times
12:21 and this tag end goes right back through here right through the loop and then once you put it through the loop you see I've made another new Loop here put it through that new Loop and then we're gonna pull it that's the first knot now make sure you cut off the tag ends not all the way but leave it in about a quarter inch to a half inch this allows for slippage if the line slips a little bit it doesn't lose the knot okay so that's the first knot right here then depending on how far you want it from
13:06 the bottom sometimes the fish are really close to the bottom sometimes they're a little bit higher up I do I like to do about 12 inches above this now we're going to do the dropper Loop right here right we're going to do about eight inches right here make two train tracks and then we're gonna twist about seven times six seven then we're gonna pull this line that we just made through this hole that we just made right then we're going to slowly pull it
13:52 then once I get to this point I like to lick it a little bit like this because that gives it a little bit of lubricant so it can slide right into place you see that boom so satisfying you can change the length of the arm itself but I like it about this length right here and this is how I tie all of our pre-tied rigs now we're going to put the hook on okay then we're going to Loop it through and pull so so far we've got the bottom snap swirl through the sinker a single hook
14:38 and now we'll attach top swivel right here with the same knot that we did for the bottom swivel okay and there we have it really simple single Loop single hook bottom rig right here that works for any like a lot of kinds of fish I've been fishing around the world
15:24 this rig is the same rig that they use all over different little variations here and there but this is the basic idea if you learn how to tie this you are well on your way to becoming a more uh efficient a better more advanced fisherman like I said I like to use these bottom sinkers here foreign [Applause] but you can use Bank sinkers you can use like different shaped sinkers if you want it just Clips right in and you can change out your Sinker with this clip really quickly so if it's the wrong weight if you're using the wrong weight you can
16:10 just change it up real quick because sometimes you don't know what size Sinker to use and sometimes the current starts to move faster and you need to up your weight I without having to re-tie your rig this is a great thing to just change out really quick it allows you to change it out very fast and that's our rig right there if you wanted to you can totally add a float when we have these on our store we hand paint these to look like sand fleas to look like clam just something to attract the fish right you you pinch the end of the knot the loop and you push it through okay and then you put the hook on
17:00 like that and when you're when you're fishing this float will rise your float up like this rise your bait up and this is sometimes really important so that fish can actually see your line your your bait better sometimes they don't want to see the flow so you have to try different ways this is my way of doing it and I have had much success doing it this way you can tie it up however you want to that's the beauty of tying up your own rigs you can make it custom to yourself okay so for this rig I actually sell it as with with the floats or without the floats see it's the same rig but it has two hooks and this one has floats this one does not have floats and sometimes this works better but
17:46 sometimes this really shines because of these little floats so it's up to you so I hope that this was an easy tutorial where you could learn how to tie a simple rig up really fast and I hope you'll be able to apply this when you're out on the field yourself and you're losing rigs you can just tie one up really quick and get back into the action I want to thank you guys for supporting our Channel and watching our Channel if you like our videos We Do videos like this every single Thursday sometimes we're in the studio showing you guys how to tie up stuff in preparation for fishing sometimes we're out there on the field showing you guys how to hook up onto fish where to find fish and basically we want to help you guys get on some fish it's a really really awesome fun hobby that you can get into where you have a lot of food to
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