Preventing Tangled rigs

[Snubby]

Been using rubber bands for years and it works great. The bottom drop goes on the hook eyelet of the rod and the top drop is hooked to a rubber band and stretched to the nearest guide eye. The plain brown rubber bands dry rot quickly, I buy the advantage brand 'file bands' from Wal Mart they hold up a lot longer, 6 months or so. Also once the hooks are secure I wrap my egg weight around the pole a couple of times to tighten it up so it's not bouncing freely against the rod. I never get tangles and can quickly unwrap or wrap up and easily deploy or stow rods.

[Bstinnett]

Go to Walmart and buy a big pack of clothes pins. Bottom hook goes into an eye, and top hook gets pinned to the rod. If you have the spiderlok rod holder the clothes pins will just clip on them when fishing.

[blueball]

Foam of the handle?


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Yep

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[blueball]

Simplest trick of all. Pass lower hook through bottom eyelet of rod. Hook 2nd hook to it and tighten line. Now both hooks are stowed together and not dangling. A 3 hook rig is more difficult but for 2 hooks this is stupid simple.

I use to do it that way it works,i prefer one in eye and one hook in the foam handle,both ways will work.

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[Chuck Adams]

I do the rubber band method when just moving locations BUT my OCD causes me to put them back on the H shaped plastic holders that Capps and Coleman rigs come on.
I have dozens of them do to loosing rigs and never throw them away.
I still buy plenty of them and even put the ones I make on them.



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[rnvinc]

Allow enough slack in the line to pass the bottom hook around the reel seat and back toward the rod tip until hooking the 2 hooks to each other ...

Then hold the line at about arms length and spin the rod to wrap the line around the rod ...

Rickie

[Marine4life]

Allow enough slack in the line to pass the bottom hook around the reel seat and back toward the rod tip until hooking the 2 hooks to each other ...

Then hold the line at about arms length and spin the rod to wrap the line around the rod ...

Rickie

So a hook to hook loop? I like this idea. Thank you Masta Rickie.


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[ccollins]

I like to Hook the lower hook in the hook keeper at bottom of the rod, then reach up and take the top hook back up toward the rod tip then twist the main line around this hook about 5 times. Then twist your main line around rod until all slack is out.

[cwright]

I run the first book around the reel post that goes from the rod to the reel body on my spinning reels and then back up the rod a foot or so until I get to the second hook, then hook the two hooks together and tighten up. Twist line around rod and you are ready to go.

[SeaRay]

So a hook to hook loop? I like this idea. Thank you Masta Rickie.



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That's how I do it but I run line through 1st eyelet instead of reel seat. If I use the reel seat I guarantee you I'll find a way to stick hook in my hand when I grab rod handle.