>>2753498>>2753404>>2753292>>2753197>>2753126galvanized or stainless steel wire, conduit tube, and lead. the wires are bent up in to a full U shape. wing it, point your whole rod straight down as far as possible, snag it in to the sand. i like to free spool a little line after and lean the rod fairly low against the railing with a little bit of slack. not blowing away, but not guitar string tight, that gives the current a chance to start to bury it. while that's going i set up my fighting rod, it had a 50 pound mono mainline of about 50 yards and a 100 pound leader. admittedly a little heavy but i felt id rather be overgunned than undergunned. to that i attatched a big fuckoff snap swivel, 200 pound breaking strength i think. then for my leader i'd either use a commercial one, or eventually i started making my own. the ones i made were probably 4-6 feet of single strand wire with a big fuck off barrel swivel on one end, and a couple treble hooks on the other. two or three treble hooks were daisy chained along with a 4 to 8 inch spacing depending on number of hooks and length to bait. a 3 hook 12 inch rig is huge, but thats what you want if you're going to be presenting an 16 inch live spanish mackerel. 8-10 inches and 2 hooks for 12-14 inch bluefish was what i usually had prepared, though. clip the snap to the swivel, and put your quick release through one of the eyes of the barrel swivel. i usually did the bottom hole on the top swivel (the same ring that the snap is affixed to) so the snap dangles free and the second swivel can spin freely. id then let more slack from the anchor rod, and leave my fighting rod in position to bait. the anchor line is slack and the quick release and swivels dangle near the tip of the fighting rod, and the far back treble is neatly hooked on something stationary close by- either the pier its self, or an eye guide of a rod, or similar. go catch a bluefish, or snag a bunker, or anything you can if the fishing is tough.
