Thanks for the very clear audio and relaxed pace of the video. It makes your channel so easy to watch.

It's almost 3.30 am in The Netherlands, and I'm still watching your vids. Thank you so much for sharing your great ideas with us.

Paul, Can't thank you enough! Yesterday, I brought in two bluefish and three Spanish mackerel at once! Your presentations are perfect, with materials needed, great close-ups, good audio, and Terrific Ideas. For above "toothy" fish, I use #2, double long, double strong, nickel plated hooks -- almost never get cut-off. I have found Zebco 40# mainline with 30# branch lines to be most flexible for tying knots -- and it's the least expensive mono around. Of course, the bluefish and Gulf Spanish (US) can be much bigger than the macks in your fishing videos. Really, three branch lines are more than enough. Best wishes, Gaffy.

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

8 жыл бұрын

+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

Thanks for this! I've been fishing for years but just made my first tinsel rig using your video. Great stuff

Thanks for your video's they are one of the best in the whole internet. Clear instructions easy to follow.

Blessed relief from those more sexy, dynamic and backed-with-horrid-music vids which blight the youtube suggestion box. Thanks and attaboy. no bs.

Best rig tying video I have seen on KZread. Well done !!

sir, you are brilliant. the caliber of lure that you're able to make out of nothing is astounding! good on ya!

love the way you explain, you are calm and clear. giving the watcher time to absorb. thanks paul, no more losing money on lurs :).

Since watching your vids I have made two rigs in in 30mins very easy to follow thanks

You're doing a hell of a good job there Paul, thank you soo much for your expertise. Great job.

Found your videos the other day and have been showing everyone I know, so easy to follow and full of great ideas. Keep up the good work.

Absolutely love the videos and the channel. After making one of these rigs (probably took me a tad longer to do than you though), I finally got.to.use it today when I noticed some "fizzy" water in front of me. And wham they were on the take from the first cast! Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos and for sharing.

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

8 жыл бұрын

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

Thanks for your effort in making your videos & saving me money,not to mention the satisfaction of making your own fishing lures.Thanks a bunch..

boring for you maybe...i find them very informative and it gives you a lot of time to understand everything.not like most videos online that go through everything way too fast and you cant remember half of what you just saw!

Thanks for the kind words, i spend most of my time stopping myself from over complicating things.

thanks for the advanced pro videos. I've been through making my own Sabiki rigs and lures for a while. I like your simplicity in thinking as well as putting ideas into action.

Paul Really learned a lot from your videos on lures and rigs.Three of us are off to Mackerel Point on Holy Island to check out our new home-made gear at the weekend. Don't change your presentation style. It is concise, brief, clear, informative, and it is what regular people want. Don't pay any attention to the t**ts who think you should sex up your presentations. John

Moved to the south coast six months ago and was an avid course angler now looking for some sea sport found your video excellent

I'm very late to this video but thoroughly enjoyed it - will definitely make some of these.

Rigs made easy, just follow the instructions from this man.

@zeenatsapat7602

4 жыл бұрын

Hello

Excellent tutorials, concise and informative with good videography...whats not to like, many thanks.

hi Paul all your video are great motivating to me as an angler. your expertise and explanation great. When ever i am not going for fishing during week ends i am always with your video's. Thanks for be there as Motivation keep post new video

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

9 жыл бұрын

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

man i watch each and every vdo of urs and a subscriber... on our tv ur vdos are ON most of the time ...

A very good professional explanation and clearly explained. You are a real teacher. Thank you kindly. Cheers m8.:_:)

Paul, desde el Mediterraneo te doy las gracias por el montaje, ya lo he puesto a prueba con buen exito. Thanks for the fishing mount, from the mediterranean sea. I testet it, and work fine, mackerel and spider fish like it. Is the best video tutorial por this mount.

must say these vids are great easy to follow and easy to do cheers m8

wow, I am new with fishing, but you help me a long way. love you video with a great explanation.

Really great video, thanks very much! Very clearly explained with great tips and easy to follow.

Top banana, you just made my life shed loads easier

Great video, well explained, easy to follow, thank you for sharing your expertise and thank you for posting!

thanks for taking the time comment, and good luck with the old fishies

some times the best advice comes from the strangest places, thanks I am off to bed.

when i began tying these a few years ago the i started with holographic type feather rig as it was easy to tie because the flash was held in place leaving me to tie the knot. I used this for boat fishing on kelpy reefs for coalfish, pollock, mackerel and cod, it has enough flash but is compact enough for good hook ups. When i was on Chesil beach the other week i quickly found out how important it is even very cheap equipment to set up properly (my rod and reel £30).

From Spain, thank you very much for your videos.

Very good video as are the others found it very easy to follow going to get my tackle from the garage and have a go cheers.

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

10 жыл бұрын

good luck

Nice one, taking the lad out at the weekend. Been a while !

Great guide, best on internet! Wish it wasn't a trillion times harder than you make it look though!

I like your style. Very nice and neat.

cheers, hopefully they will get a little better as i am on a short video making course and am learning quite a bit. Thanks again

Great tutorial, thank you very much!

you might be right, my wife said something similar, but thanks for taking the time to cheer me up before i go to bed.

Love watching you time and time again I’m going to have a go myself at making these thanks to you are you on Facebook

cheers, i think he was referring to the the production rather than the content which i am still learning but getting there. Thanks again

connecting to the mainline is the knot i've been looking for, for a very long time.. I want to use it for my paternoster rigs. Thanks

Fabulous attention to detail. Thank you

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

6 жыл бұрын

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

cheers, i am glad you could follow it. Thanks

Hello this is a great video. Very informative. I am a saltwater angler from Sri Lanka. I always wated to do away most of hardware in front of the lure. I am currently using a heavy fluro instead of wire trace we used to have in fear of losing lures to macs and kudas. For the convinience of changing lures what if i have a strong split ring instead of snaplock end of the fluro so that i can change lures using a plier. Its not as easy as using a snaplock but eliminates having too many hardware. What are my chances of damaging line with split ring end? Thanks heaps for very useful tips

HI, i try to reply to questions on youtube but i have been an bit snowed under as i didn't think so many people would watch these videos or send me e-mails i am a bit rubbish at the whole social media thing. So hi and sorry to all the people i don't get back to.

Great vid thanks, now I've the rig, do I add a weight when putting it on the line? New to this, usually do fly . Thanks

thank you paul for this video you are the best

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

9 жыл бұрын

boukellal redouane I am glad you found it useful, thanks

great videos, really easy to follow, thanks a lot

Some great tuts, thanks. Trying to save some pennies so will give these a go!

This is exactly what I am looking for.

Thanks, i have just come back from mackerel fishing on the beach, and tomorrow we are having a fishy barbecue .

For any newbies follow this and you won,t go far wrong.

Thanks good luck, is that holy island North East or Wales?

Thank you, brilliantly shown. I don't often post but this was worth it. Know anywhere I can get eel hooks 2/0-4/0 - the sort you use for gummimacks?

Great vids m8. Very helpful for beginners like me. Thankyou

Thanks a lot for sharing

Nice work. I am a complete novice and have just bought a cheap rod, will be rock hopping in Brittany in a few weeks, can you point me in the direction of one of your vids maybe for a simple rig I can prepare a few of in advance? The sea there is very seaweedy, quite rough and I think I am after mackerel, bass and pollock. As I say, total newbie - many thanks for the tutorials

very helpful and easy to watch, cheers

Very helpful video thankyou very much

Would it be worth making a separate set with much smaller hooks for sand eels?

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

Жыл бұрын

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

great video, thanks for sharing your expertise with us. keep it up!

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

7 жыл бұрын

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

i bought mine online at ebay, they are just long cock hackles, but if you have a store near you that sells fly tying goods they should stock them it is one of the basic fly tying materials. Other than that marry a chicken farmer's daughter, all the chicken you can eat for life and hackles for your rigs Hope this helps, maybe not the last bit

Nice knot... thanks

nice job i like that one

Would this work with fluorocarbon line too? Would make the rig nearly invisible.

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

8 жыл бұрын

+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.

@fiftyhunnug

8 жыл бұрын

+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.

Very clear. Thanks.

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Very good video fella, I do like the rig for strength however, the booms don’t stand out 90deg from the main line like the blood loop version does, so tangles must be a factor is it not. ?

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

Жыл бұрын

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

@kingdom777866

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

Gods work

I am wondering what is the story behind the knot you use to tie up the rig. You are the only one that have seen that uses that knot. Did you invent it or is it a well known knot where you are from. I started making rigs out here in southern California and I have caught a lot of mackerel and bonito.

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

6 жыл бұрын

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

fantastic! thank you.

cheers

great video paul , thanks

I used fluorocarbon, and work good. if u want, u can use it, but nylon is similar really

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

8 жыл бұрын

+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.

your videos are very exact and informative - what weight would you put on the end of this mackerel rig - 2oz?

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

9 жыл бұрын

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

@kennethhenderson7281

9 жыл бұрын

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

Thanks bro

thanks!

Good job. What number of nylon from hook to line. Thanks

Fantastic, thanks so much.

.....very useful. thanks

"AWSOME" very good skills.

But I always have a problem with hook line twist around the main line! How can I fix that problem?

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

9 жыл бұрын

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.

you should be making the vids with hands like that. cheers

i can pick up 10 rigs for £8 at the local shop but do want to try and make my own does it work out much cheeper

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

9 жыл бұрын

The reason i started making feather rigs was because like you i used to buy them in bulk cheaply, but i was fishing from a boat in klepy, rocky water often taking novice anglers and i was loosing rigs at such a rate that even buying them in bulk meant it was still expensive. So i bought more expensive rigs, named brands and they fared only slightly better, some actually worse so i thought i would have ago at making my own. It took about a year of testing before i had rig i could leave set up on my rod for month or so having caught hundreds of mackerel and Pollock without loosing the rig or having to change it. Interestingly i recently found a video by Total Sea Fishing which explains some of the problems with bought Rigs kzread.info/dash/bejne/qI6szq2No8rLp7A.html. This is just my experience, price wise i can make a set a mackerel rigs for about 20p if i buy my hooks in bulk

@fuknut

9 жыл бұрын

***** well ive just ordered the stuff off ebay so ill give it a try and see how it goes and i cheers for the vid im sure it will come in handy

Ha ha, would you be able to tell me where to get the feathers have done the ribbon and tinsel

i suppose there are worse beetles cheers

How do you make the branch lines even?

great vid thanks mate

very informative.

What is the maxiam hooks can you use for makeral

Could you fish feathers from a float ?

does it really matter if its a yellow line or not as a main line ?

@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman

10 жыл бұрын

i have used hi viz line before today when it was all i had but it would not be my first, thanks

Thank you! :-)

ENJOYED THE VIDEO/S MAN TOP NOTCH !!!! =)

or big 5 because there isn't stores like that overhere

thanks............

Nice, Thanks.