rotton botttom advice

[mooseboy65]

alright lads,ive been making rotten bottom rigs due to the heavy ground il be fishing this season,the best way ive made them castable is to put gemini sinker clip upside down,is there a better way???(has to be castable)none of these toothpick ideas please

 

[jimmy]

i make mine similar to these mate, but i just used mild steel and a bead

 

[lug]

I was gonna say i always get a rotten bottom after a takeaway but not the right topic lol

got any pics Jimmy

 

[jimmy]

I was gonna say i always get a rotten bottom after a takeaway but not the right topic lol

got any pics Jimmy

havent got any pics of my rotten bottoms mate, but they a doddle to make and safe as houses even for power casting, PM me your addy and i will send you one so you can copy it if ya want

 

[codseeker]

these ones look canny too but like jimmy says they easy to make
The Rotten Bottom Link | AB Fishing Tackle

 

[jimmy]

just took a couple of pics to show you
sorry pics are small, dont know how to enlarge them, but maybe you or someone else on here can

hope you can make sense of them mate

 

[codseeker]

shud be ashamed the way youve bent them grip wires jimmy

 

[jimmy]

tried to enlarge them, lets see lets see if they work this time lol

 

[jimmy]

shud be ashamed the way youve bent them grip wires jimmy

Can ye enlarge them pics for is mate, tried doing it through photobucket but it aint doing it

 

[codseeker]

cannot be bothered LOL

 

[jimmy]

cannot be bothered LOL

well dinnit be bothered then, but if ya dont am not taking ya to coddys point nee more

and a will change its name to Cannot be bothered point " ye knar it makes sense"

 

[moocher]

I use cannylinks rotten bottom and bait clip in one £15 for 100 from hiram a biff theb best there is

 

[jimmy]

I use cannylinks rotten bottom and bait clip in one £15 for 100 from hiram a biff theb best there is

they are good off Paul (Hiram a biff) but not as safe for power casting as the ones i use, but thats only my opinion having used both of them

 

[lug]

anything that only cradles the lead is never going to be as safe in my eyes

same as rotters

 

[jimmy]

anything that only cradles the lead is never going to be as safe in my eyes

same as rotters

spot on, if something is only cradled, a miss timed cast can make the sinker jump off the link and snap the weak line, then god knows where the sinker goes or who it might hit

 

[adam123]

the Gemini breakers which look similar to the ones 'Jimmy' use are £2.24 for a pack of 5 and have been told that they are the safest to use when putting a bit of power into a cast.

 

[moocher]

You should not power cast with any weak link very dangerous . It is called a weak for a reason it is weak

 

[david.northeast]

i make mine similar to these mate, but i just used mild steel and a bead

I dont understand how these work

 

[shaun]

I dont understand how these work

The bead/stop holds the peice of metal along side the other bit then the bead slides up as it hits the water on impact which releases the bit of metal which also releases the wieght which is in the triangle bit behind the bead/stop. Safest rotton bottom ive seen.

 

[david.northeast]

The bead/stop holds the peice of metal along side the other bit then the bead slides up as it hits the water on impact which releases the bit of metal which also releases the wieght which is in the triangle bit behind the bead/stop. Safest rotton bottom ive seen.

I sound like a right numpty but i still cant see how u cli them up
I think if i see one infront of is then i would figure it out