Bream rig

[Newboy]

With all the skippers on chartered boats I'd been in, they all recommend wire boom with a rotten bottom, anything else and they will end up tangled. However, in this month BFM, it suggests the use of what looks like a paternoster flat on the sea bed. So do they both work, depending on areas?

[Adam F]

Patenoster for then the tide is slack and the fish come up of the bottom, and the flowing rig for when the tide is running.

[duncan]

Having made up a load of rigs specifically for bream fishing this year I have gone for a relatively simple one up one down approach creating a short dropper about 18inches above a small snap swivel attached to a loop in the line and then a 2ft/3ft run to the lower hook. Lead to snap swivel will be via a vweak link of some sort! Lower hook whilst still small is a stronger model than the top (red) one.

Hoping these will fish OK with or without tide - although all my best bream trips have had the fish 'switching on' to the flooding tide!

[Newboy]

I have a similar idea, but it involve a wrecking boom with a weak link via plant tie,

a spreader. So essentially it's a 1 up 2 down, each hook decorated with beads

[shytalk]

2 hook paternoster with 6 inch snoods does the buisiness

[Seamouse]

Further east on Selsey, flowing trace definitely works better when there's some tide. Paternosters come into their own as the tide slacks.

 

Steve