i've had quite a few questions about how to rig up the floating squid jigs so i thought that i would
show you what my setup looks like today and also show you the knots that i used to tie these jigs
into my leader line for my leader i use 50 pound test monofilament and at the bottom
i have just a ball weight and it's attached to a snap and the snap is attached to the
line with an improved clinch knot and i like having the snap at the bottom so
that i can switch out the weight for heavier weights if i need to
the floating jigs are attached to the leader line just with a dropper loop and i'll show you how to
tie those here in a second i have three jigs on my leader line and they're about 12 inches (30.5 cm) apart
and then at the very top of my monofilament leader i just tie whatever knot you feel like
to attach it to another snap that's going to be attached to your main line and i used the
30 pound test rated for the leader i used the monofilament because it's a little bit stiffer
and it helps maintain the spacing between the jigs but for the main line i use
braided line because there's no stretch in this and so you can feel the squid hit
your uh your jigs down there because this line is so sensitive to demonstrate how to tie the dropper
loop i'm going to use this rope because it's easier to see than the monofilament so you just
overlap like that and then we're going to tuck the line under several times and that leaves us with
a nice loop right there and we're going to put our jig through the loop
and then you just pull the ends tight
now that we have one jig on there we're just gonna slide a second jig down
and tie another dropper loop
the other knot that i use in my leader setup is the improved clinch knot and that's to attach
the snap which then attaches to my weight so we take our line go through the snap
and then we're going to leave a little bit of a loop right here at this end and
pull this line around
and then you're going to take your tail
and go through that opening
now it looks like that and then you go back through
that loop
there we go
so those are our two loops we got the dropper loop on the floating jig
and the improved clinch on the snap for the weight
you