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Hey everybody! Chad Ferguson here with Learn to Catch Catfish.com
with this weeks Catfishing quick tip.
Now what I'm gonna show you this week, in this weeks quick tip video
is how to tie a Double Hook Rig
Now most catfish anglers refer to this as a double hook rig.
it's really not a rig, but its more of way
of attaching two hooks on to one piece of leader line
when you're fishing with big pieces of cut bait.
Now, if you're using a big chunk of catfish bait
we're gonna use my hand and here's an example,
Lets say I'm using a big Slab of bait the size of my hand
and you hook that bait at the top of the bait
well, its not uncommon for catfish to come along and not completely engulf
that entire piece of bait with a large piece of cut bait
and what that means is,you have a hook here
and don't have a hook down here
and that fish come along and chunks on that bait
well if he doesn't take that entire piece of bait in his mouth
then you're not gonna get a good hook set.
so in those instances
when fishing with very large pieces of cut bait
or fresh bait
its not uncommon to use a double hook rig
and what that does is that adds a second hook to that line
so you would have a hook at the top of that piece of cut bait
and the hook at the bottom of the piece of cut bait
So i'm gonna cut away here real quick
to show you how to put
the two hooks on that line for the double hook rig
and then i'll comeback and wrap up this weeks catfishing quick tip video
one thing that anglers commonly do
when fishing for trophy catfish
is use what is commonly referred to as a double hook rig
now this can be set up on a 3 way rig
a slip sinker rig
there's variety of different ways that this could be set up.
i'm gonna focus more on how you attach two hooks
than I am on the rigs that you use it for
I most commonly use this on a slip sinker rig
or a sa*** rig
and I wanna show you how I go about doing that
So what i'm gonna do here is just tight my leader line
and I'm just gonna tie a small over hand knot
right here in the very end of it.
I'm gonna take this
and go from the front of the hook to the back
and insert that line through here
and just hold this right here on top of the hook
and I'm gonna snell this first hook
so I'm gonna go around 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8 times
and then I'm gonna take my leader line
and i'm gonna go from the back of the hook
to the front of the hook
and pull this through
and I'm gonna snell this first hook
now I've pulled this tight
this hook is snelled
it's all pulled nice and tight.
not gonna come off
so, now what I'm going to do
with my second hook
I'm going add this Double Hook Rig
I'm going go through here
and I'm going to insert my leader line through this
and I wanna slide my hook down
So, I now have my first hook on here
and now I've got a second hook.
Just like this,
And..
I'm going to go
Depending on the size of baits that I'm using
is going to depend on how far up I'm going from this.
For this example, I'm gonna stay in here pretty close
So now I've got my second hook on here
and I'm going to go around 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8 times
And then I'm going to go back though my hook here
and pull this tight again
So now I have two hooks
attached to my main line
or my leader line
and I can use both of these hooks on the same rig.
where this has an advantage
is if you're using very large pieces of bait
you can put one hook towards the top of the bait
one hook towards the bottom of the bait
and then this way if you get a short bite
and fish comes along like this
and then he champs down
you have this hook here, that you can get a good hook set with
and you get the top hook that you can get a good hook set with.
where this is advantageous
is if you're using large pieces of bait
and you didn't have this hook down here
this second hook,
and you're using a single hook with a large piece of bait running down like this,
and a fish comes up and grabs it
well, they don't always get that hook in their mouth
and they don't always get all the way up.
so if you're running a second hook with a double hook rigs,
some people will call this a stinger hook
having two hooks on here.
It gives you a greater likelihood of the fish comiing contact with one of these two hooks
when you're fishing with large pieces of cut bait.
so that's how you tie a Double Hook Rig.
So again, that's the Double Hook Rig or the way that you can go about adding two hooks
to any kind of fishing Rig that you want to use
that has a loose leader line involved
you can use that Double Hook Rig when fishing with large pieces of cut bait.
and again, the purpose of that is to have a hook at the top of the bait
and at the bottom of the bait when using large bait fishing for big trophy class catfish
you're not going to want to use this if you're out targeting just “run of the mill” 1 to 10 pound box fish
But if you're using big baits, targeting big catfish
then you might want to consider using the Double Hook Rig on your next fishing trip.
Until next time..
This is Chad Ferguson
Learn to Catch Catfish.com
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