Thread: Need advice on terminal tackle for spider rigging

You can use a small snap swivel in the middle to change your weight size instead of wrapping the line through an egg sinker. Buy some of the Capps and Coleman rigs from B and M and copy those. I replace the egg sinker with a snap swivel so I can change weights without changing rigs. I pre tie most of my rigs like Rees showed you though. Just change the distance between the two drops above the weight for deep or shallow rigs. Main thing is to find one YOU like. They ALL work. It's more important to find the right fish, instead of how you tie your rig.

BTW, some rigs use a longer drop length because it keeps the bait from being yanked as hard in rough water. The main line gets pulled hard in heavy winds, but the length of the drop gives the bait a buffer of about a foot so that the bait isn't pulled as hard as the main line. The bait is pulled, but stays in the strike zone a little longer with the longer drop length. Just sayin.

Good luck in your choice.


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