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Offline KillerWhale

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Bait cotton tangling with sinker line/knot
« on: March 02, 2024, 06:27:08 PM »
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[/size]Every cast or so, I have noticed that my bait cotton tangles itself around my sinker snood or knot, basically tying my bait/hook to my sinker. This obviously inhibits my bait from presenting itself freely and natually in the water column and also decreases hookups when fish actually bite and take the bait. I always thought that it happens due to rough water with my bait/hook gettingthrown around but it happens in calm conditions too. I have also just snapped my bait cotton off directly or tying a little overhand knot in the cotton before snapping it off to stop the cotton unwinding.[/color]
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[/size]Has anyone else experienced this? I have had this problem for some time now and need advice.[/color][/size]Any advice would be appreciated!Thanks!KillerWhale[/color]

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Re: Bait cotton tangling with sinker line/knot
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2024, 12:58:59 PM »
Hi KillerWhale.


It seems your question was met by silence. It is, however, a problem I have experienced in the past and (maybe luckily) have not experienced for a while.


I used to just wrap the bait cotton around my bait and then break it off. Understandably, then the cotton would start to unwrap in the water, and not long after that, start wrapping itself around my sinker trace. More recently, I have started tying the cotton off onto my bait using two or three half hitches. This seems to have solved the problem.


You can see Rudolph Scheepers and Jerome Charles doing this in these two videos on Saltwater Fishing South Africa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dumia1sW910
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWT7ypuAC0g


Where I seem to differ from them is that I do three of these half hitches instead of one and that I do my hitches around my bait and not around the hook.


Give it a try, it works for me.  :tite
Frans






 

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