How To Troll Live Bait?

[river_bouy]

Hi,

I was wanting to troll some live baits down deep.

What is the best rig to do this? Do I need to add a sinker to get it down there?

Thanks in advance.

[netic]

Mate a downrigger is designed for this purpose

[Boog's Boat]

Hi River Buoy,

If you don't have a down rigger you can try this. Buy Some easy rigs and put them before the swivel connected to your leader. Then attach either Knife Jigs or Snapper Leads of desired weight to get your livie down in the hot zone.

Good Luck

Nathan

P.S. Knife Jigs are best as they also act as an attractent to the fish.

[GregL]

Another way to connect a snapper lead to the line is use an elastic band wrapped a few times around the line. If you hook a big one and gets you into the reef the sinker will break off it it's snagged.

Greg

[Captain Spanner]

i tie a swivel to the snapper lead with light line and connect the other end of the swivel to the ezy rig (sinker clip). This way when you get snagged you only lose your sinker and not your whole rig (in theory). the ezy rig helps minimise the line twisting around itself at the sinker, but you can just thread the end of the swivel on to the line like a running sinker if you dont like or have the clips.

[forliano]

i tie a swivel to the snapper lead with light line and connect the other end of the swivel to the ezy rig (sinker clip). This way when you get snagged you only lose your sinker and not your whole rig (in theory). the ezy rig helps minimise the line twisting around itself at the sinker, but you can just thread the end of the swivel on to the line like a running sinker if you dont like or have the clips.

Ditto...

Cheers

Ben