i am glad they came in use, it reminds me to go and find some mackerel

+Gaffy Bruce I am glad your having a great time with them and adapting for your needs, thanks for letting me know how your getting on

Raghubir Singh Sudan I motivated myself today and went fishing without a camera it was great, and I caught some fish, thanks

good luck

boukellal redouane I am glad you found it useful, thanks

Hello

some would say OCD but i try and tone it down, thanks

thanks, I am away in Scotland fishing with these at the momment

it depends, if i was casting it a maximum of 3.5oz with a shock leader, jigging from a boat i have used 3oz up to 8oz depending on the tide pull , thanks

I see - thank you for the advice - my boys and I truly appreciate your skills especially in lure making - you're very gifted and we are blessed that you are happy to share your talent

Glad it was helpful!

they behave very differently in the water than you would expect and think it has to do with using thick 30lb line, the lures tend have a lot of Résistance to the water and move in half circles about the not on the main line. i Stopped using the blood not because i used to get a lot breaks at that junction, cheers for the comment made me think

@@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman I understand what your saying line thickness does make a difference, I see many videos on here where guys are using a blood loop, and cutting the loop to form the boom .. that I do know is bad news as I found out when I used a tag end of a blood knot to form a dropper when fly fishing.. like you it broke at the knot every time.

+JoseKayak I did experiment with flurocarbon for a while and I really couldn't see that i was catching any more fish for the extra price.

might be, i did make some tiny ones once for lrf fishing and they worked on mini species, but i have never tried for sand eels

i was living on a remote island in Scotland and fishing nearly everyday in very kelpy and rocky or weedy water and losing a lot of rigs so i started experimenting with tying better knots and came out after a few months with using these knots, for the hook this was based on hangman's knot but i wanted it to hold the material on and lot the rigs i had bought in the past tended to lose material after one use. I made a few alterations to it which seemed to improve things dramatically i am sure other people have come similar or the same knot. for connecting the snoods to the mainline again that is a couple of knots that i combined after testing them for strength. They may not be the easiest knots to tie but they held up to the job. I had one feather rig on a rod for month and caught a lot of fish and never had to change it and I was fishing every day. For me these came out of fishing experience rather than copying what was out there and great when other people get some use out of them. I am an experimenter so i don't always tie these rigs in the same way but i still come back to the basics because i know they work for me. cheers

+Panfish I did for a time make these using flurocarbon but i have never been convinced that it is virtually invisible because i can see it in water and sure I am not alone.

+Paul Adams (The Handmade Fisherman) I agree with you. I don't think it's any less visible than mono. And I cannot stand the line memory of fluorocarbon.

3-4oz if your using bigger you will need to up the main line so 5oz 50lb, 6oz 60lb

Thanks man. Great videos

painful1978 when this has happened to me in the past it is usually because I have used a light line for the snood or made them too long.