I am now going to attach my waggler to the main line. Notice I am using a quick link on the end of my waggler.
Now, to attach the waggler, the waggler is threaded on to the line on the bottom eye only. You will thread the eye through the end of the ring so it slides freely on the line. Now to attach this waggler, we simply pinch shot either side of the float. Now this waggler says “2 ½ AA” on the side of it, so I am going to trap an AA each side.
Take the shot and simply pinch onto the line, one each side of the float and not traps the float.
Now with waggler fishing, you need to keep at least 75 to 80 percent of the bulk of the weight around the float, and I like to keep just a few small shot down the line and most of the shot around the float.
Now, I am going to add another shot to there, which is the number 4 because we need to build this up to 2 ½ AA’s. That is the waggler attached. We now need to attach our hook lengths.
To do this, I am going to tie a small overhand loop in the end of here, at the end of the line. So, carefully tie a double overhand loop and pull up, not forgetting just to lubricate the knot before we pull it tight. That loop is where I am going to attach my hook lengths. I will just trim that off with a pair of scissors. Trim the line off and make sure you discard your line, either in your bag or in some rubbers to take home and dispose of later—we do not leave line on the bank.
Alright, I have my waggler attached and I have my small loop in the end. Now we are going to attach my hook length. I am using hooks already tied to nylon here above the size 18, and this is on a two-pane, breaking strain hook lengths. These hooks tied to nylon are a great way for giving a good presentation and they are already come with a loop attached, so all we need to do is literally attach them loop to loop.
So I am going to do that now. Pass a loop through the loop, the hook back through. Just gently tease the two loops together, a little bit of lubrication, and now we have our hook length attached.
Now, that is the waggler float attached to the line and that is the hook length attached. Noticed that the line on the hook length is actually lighter than the main line that we are using—two reasons for that. Firstly, for presentation. The lighter the line, the better it is for the fish. We can get more bites by using lighter line because they do not see it so easily and it gives better presentation. And the other reason is, if we get stuck in some weeds or we hooked a big fish and it does break off, then it just breaks off at the hook length and it saves us losing our float and having to reset the whole tackle up again. We just insert another hook length on the existing loop and we are ready to fish again.
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