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General Angling Topics => Rock and Surf Traces and Rigs => Topic started by: WalkersKiller on June 07, 2012, 10:36:58 AM
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Hi guys, thought I would share the double hook trace with you that I use more than any other trace off the rocks and in the surf. It is a very simple trace, easy to tie, easy to use, and seems to work very well. The size of the hooks used here mean you can catch almost anything when the bigger fish are off the bite.
On this trace and variations of this trace I have caught the following:
- Karanteen
Blacktail
John Brown
Stonebream
Bronze Bream
Kob
Rockcod
Mullet
Barbel
Moony
Stumpnose
Steenbras
Klipfish
Musselcracker
Butterfish
What you will need:
*2x size 6 Mustad hooks
*1x 3-way Swivel
*2x glow beads or floating beads, any colour, yellow, green and orange are winners
*15-20lb line for the trace
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Tying The Trace
Measure out 2 pieces of trace line, 15cm in length.
Tie both pieces of trace line to different points of the 3 way swivel. I use the improved clinch knot.
Add your sliding beads and move them down to the knot at the swivel.
Then tie your hooks to the end of the trace line using the same knot as above.
Test all four knots, and then clip off the tag ends close to the knots.
Tie it to your main line. Attach, sinker or float and cast :-)
(http://i1211.photobucket.com/albums/cc440/WalkersKiller/Img_0205.jpg)
WK :FST:
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What's the purpose/function of the beads WK?
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The yellow beads float, and the green ones glow. It is basically for colour in the water, similar to using a skirt. I have noticed, especially in the Eastern Cape, guys who fish with the 3 colour beads above nail the fish. So it is something I have experimented worth and seems to work quite well.
Basically for colour/glow, movement and floatation :-)
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(clap) Nice 1 ... :win:
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Awesome trace :win: I use a variation of your trace when I am scratching for bigger fish. :gt: :gljn:
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Wow great trace WJ!!!!! :+ cred:
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G, are those beads available in tackle shops?
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To the best of my knowledge, no.
I have about 50 in my tackle box from about 30 years a go.
They might be available in some shops though... Its a very light wood that has excellent buoyancy
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G, are those beads available in tackle shops?
Yes sir ... they are .... w;k .. perhaps not the same colour .. but you get them in various colours ... and sizes ...
I also use a small variant , will show you when we meet ... w;k
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G, are those beads available in tackle shops?
I have seen alot of plastic and few foam beads. not wooden.
Excellent post again G.
nice alternative trace to WJ as well.
:+ cred: to both of you
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Thanks DK, yeah thats why I am not sure if you can buy the wooden ones anymore :dunno:
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WK,
It might sound like silly questions but I have got 3...
1) sinkers to use - 2-4oz?
2) Should the sinker line be longer that the hook snoots? And
3) Do you attach the sinker line to the third eye of the swivel together with your mainline?
:dunno: Gotta ask...
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Not at all Nakkie :-)
I use between a 1 and 4 ounce with a sinker snood that is longer, which is tied to the third eye where the mainline would be tied on.
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Thanks Garreth. Will make some for December. Very interesting with the beads... Could one put some floatation on one hook and the beads on the other? My thinking is that you then have one bait higher that the other. :dunno:
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Its often a good idea to use floatation with or instead of the beads, especially when fishing in the brix
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Nice post<and great trace,use it often off the brix.Wj i like your version as well,do you think it will work for brusher with a mussel on each hook?
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Thanks Gareth. It looks like a good "all-rounder" trace. Even I can make that trace. :hnthnt:
Will use it next week on the South Coast.
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Thanks guys, Craig if you replace the 2 hooks with 4/0's it will definitely work for Brusher, have caught a few small Brusher on the trace, but to target larger ones bigger hooks should be used I reckon.
(http://i1211.photobucket.com/albums/cc440/WalkersKiller/IMG_0402.jpg)
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:rotfl i reckon you right.I dont think ive ever seen one so small,nice.
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:rotfl i reckon you right.I dont think ive ever seen one so small,nice.
:hehe: bru the average size Karanteen I catch were bigger than that Brusher :hyst: