Tying a Salt-water Fishing Rig

Get your materials together and set up making sure that your leader line is the correct length and your hook, weight, and swivel are proportional as to what you are catching and where you are fishing. It's also very important to always be conscious of where your hook is so you don't hurt yourself or anyone around you.

Spin-cast fishing reel on a fishing rod, about 2-21/2 feet of leader line, a proportional hook for the type of fish you are planning to catch, a swivel, a weight (in this case a half-ounce weight), fishing plyers with built-in cutters,

Grab your weight and slide the fishing line through the hole inside and slide the weight down. Next, get your salt-water swivel and slip the line with the weight through it inside any of the two holes on the swivel.

Pull about 3-5 inches of line out and cross it over to the opposite side making sure to leave a little loop at the bottom. Then you must hold that loop at the bottom between your index and thumb making sure to maintain pressure and keeping the loop the same size. Begin twisting the end of the line with the part of the line that is going through the leader. Do this 5-8 times.

After 5-8 turns grab the leftover line and put it back in the loop you have been holding with your thumb and index fingers and pull some. Not too much because then the knot will be to tight and strip your line. After that, pull the leftover line back through the bigger loop that has been made and pull on both ends until the knot is small and tight against the swivel. Finally, Make sure all ends of the line are tight and proceed to use the cutting part of the fishing plyers to cut excess line leftover.

Repeat steps two and three except this time attach your leader line onto the other side of the swivel and in contrast to earlier, do not put a weight on this section of your rig.

The knot here does not differ from the others you have just made, except this time you must use extreme caution as it can save you a potential trip to urgent care. Handle your hook with awareness and caution, always knowing where it is. Something that always helps is to grip your hook with the fishing plyers instead of your fingers for a stronger and safer.

Finally, once you have cut all excess fishing line and tightened all your knots you are ready to throw some bait on your hook and cast away.

Here I used the rig that I have just shown you to catch these fish shown here