Hello Fishing Buddies!
Today, we'll be talking about Floating Rig Beads.
(Intro)
Here I have a pack of Floating Rig Beads that I have purchased off eBay.
It is bright neon orange in color which the camera might have a hard time capturing accurately.
It comes plainly packed and it measures 17.78mm in length and 8.52mm in diameter on its thickest
section.
For reference, a pack of 5 frozen squids, including the packaging, weighs around 90-91grams.
Giving us a weight of
around 15-18 grams per squid.
I am using this scrap knife sharpening guide that weighs roughly 16 grams in order to test
the beads.
There are different reasons to use these beads - to add movement in the water by slightly
increasing the bait's bouyancy enough to give them some
movement rather than just being static or to totally lift the bait off the bottom - away
from the crabs - which is what I am currently going for.
I started with 4 beads and kept adding another 2 beads until it is showing some added bouyancy,
up until it managed to float at 14 floating rig beads.
I decided to glue a bunch of them together and place this bunch closer to where my bait
is rather than just beading the whole 14 floating beads along the length of my hook line.
I just felt that this will lift my bait a bit better.
I am using an up and over pulley rig baited with squid with the floating rig beads to
test them out.
And as for the control rig for this test, I am using a 3-hook clipped down rig baited
with squid.
I kept the baits out in the water for 30 minutes before reeling them back in.
First is the control rig which is the 3 hook clipped down rig.
Both the bottom and the middle hook lengths have been stripped clean with nothing left
but the bait elastic.
The top hook length is practically gone as well.
Next is the rig with the floating rig beads.
And it is practically untouched.
There we have it.
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