david.northeast
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Hi lads im new to all this uptiding lark and will be my 1st experience on sunday so an anyone point me in the right direction of what rig works best
David
David
Uptiding rigs
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kayos
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A simple basic rig seems to work. The one the Whitby Skipper showed us is a 6oz gripper with a 4 or 5 foot trace off the clip you use to attach the weight. Good tip he told us was, always have one spare trace baited, so that when you get a fish. or lose your bait, un-clip and swap rigs and then bait up the old one while your new one is in the water. Use big smelly bait cocktails.
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david.northeast
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Cheers mark thought there woulda been a bit more advice from others like but never mind
The Jester
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The best advice is what Mark said, keep it simple, then when you lose a hook length etc, its a quick change over, good luck with the uptiding trip David 
david.northeast
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Spot on cheers lads
david.northeast
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Cheers thankyou will take all this onboard !!
oldessox
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No, mate it's just a way of fishing from an anchored boat where you cast a line out instead of just dropping it over the side, the cast is made uptide , hence the name.
big_sean
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As i mainly do uptide fishing at the moment as my boat is in the bristol channel, i will ad what most of the guys do down there
Firstly we use 20lb main line with a 60lb shock leader, at the end of the shockleader we tie a snap swiver with at least a 100lb breaking strain
then we make our uptide rig this is a short piece of 100lb mono about 18" long at one end is a swivel 100lb class and at the other another 100class snap swivel in the middle we add another free ruinning snap swivel that the lead hangs on, to make so that it stands of you could swap that for a zip slider or a fancy uptide boom we actually make this happen by placing about 8 beads on the line and one above which makes this under preassure of the lead act as a boom
all we then do is attach this to the shock leader and then attach the lead and then add which ever hook length we are going to use and these are generally pennels and fromn 12" to 3' usually made from 60 to 80lb line
the reason the lead is fixed on a short section is so than when a fish hits this it pulls the lead free and you see the bite better
Hope this helps a little
Sean
Firstly we use 20lb main line with a 60lb shock leader, at the end of the shockleader we tie a snap swiver with at least a 100lb breaking strain
then we make our uptide rig this is a short piece of 100lb mono about 18" long at one end is a swivel 100lb class and at the other another 100class snap swivel in the middle we add another free ruinning snap swivel that the lead hangs on, to make so that it stands of you could swap that for a zip slider or a fancy uptide boom we actually make this happen by placing about 8 beads on the line and one above which makes this under preassure of the lead act as a boom
all we then do is attach this to the shock leader and then attach the lead and then add which ever hook length we are going to use and these are generally pennels and fromn 12" to 3' usually made from 60 to 80lb line
the reason the lead is fixed on a short section is so than when a fish hits this it pulls the lead free and you see the bite better
Hope this helps a little
Sean
big_sean
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When you get snagged up you must lose the whole lot every time with that set up Sean? Like he sound of it though , quite simple
We tend to bend the wires out quite a bit on the leads and i havent lost one in over 5 trips so it does work and its very rough where we fish. It does work and the Bristol channel lads have been using it for years.
Sean
