Dan Hernandez: This week in Tackle Box I want to talk to you a little bit about what we are doing with the Channel Islands. Now, when you are fishing these Rockfish and fishing for Halibut any that kind of bigger fish, deeper water; you got to really step up your gear. You don't want to go too lite; 20 pound in this situation will be way too light.
30 and 40 pound test I wouldn't be afraid to use and because of that you can pick out one of the Dan Hernandez rods made by Shakespeare. Just want to make sure that the model you pick is design to fish 40 pound test line and you'll be safe. You start to seeing those bigger Lingcod or the really monster Halibut that live out there. I won't be afraid to using a 50 pound outfit but for today's fishing we are not going that heavy.
Now, as far as rigs a great wag to use when you are fishing for deep water halibut or even Lingcod is to go ahead and use a Reverse Dropper Loop and let me show you really quick how it's tie. Now, normally in a Dropper Loop we would put the sinker on the bottom and then we'd have our hook up above. With the Reverse Dropper Loop what we do is exactly the opposite.
So, first we are going to slide on the sinker to do everything like we would with the Dropper Loop. Take the lines, around three to five times is good and you take your sinker and you go right through that loop and then you just wind it down. Now, as I pull it together I want to wet it just so that that line has some friction in there, there you go just like that.
Now, on the other end of it where my sinker would normally go we are going to put on a live bait hook. Now, this hook I am using right now is a circle hook depending on how you like to fish and may not want to use circle hook, you might want to go with the J-style Stall hook. But, when I am fishing in deeper water I really like to go with the circle hook because that way the fish will hook himself.
So, I will just tie the Palomar knot right now and slide the hook through the loop and then synch it down. Again I wet it and then just synch is right down and that's all there is to it. So, if the sinker was on the bottom it would a Dropper Loop but this way with the sinker in the middle it's a Reverse Dropper Loop. The idea behind it is that the sinker is going to lie on the bottom and your bait will be able to come up above it a little bit.
With the halibut, you want that bait to move around so that's what it's designed for. If I had the hook up here, my sinker would be down here and my bait would be dangling too high of the bottom and for halibut it wouldn't work. Remember, halibut, lingcod they going to right down deep. The halibut would be right on the edge of the rocks, right on the bottom in the sand, the lingcod are going to be right on the bottom in the rocks and that's where the outfit works work so good. Well, let's get back on the water and show you more exciting action right here on Sport Fishing.
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