Easy Ways To Rig Ballyhoo Bait Fish

By Harold Allen


Fishing is a lifestyle to many communities all around the world and there are thousands of people who rely on the action as both a source of food and a source of income. It is practised in fresh waters and in salty waters and those communities practising it have come up with numerous and creative ways to fish ballyhoo bait method being among them.

Every fisherman who have used this method before they could tell you of many ways by which one can successfully rig ballyhoo in order to set the perfect bait for fishing. There are many ways to rig bally and get the perfect fishing rod but we will mainly focus on the simple and easy method that can be achieved by anyone willing to put some work in.

Bally baiting is an easy method that requires almost no time to be executed and all you need to have is a freshly caught ballyhoo to be rigged. Bally fish is salty water dwellers and when one has one and is ready to rig, the first thing to do is dip the fish in a brine solution that is made of water, salt and some baking soda. The solution helps in killing any present bacteria and maintains the colour of fish.

Now take your hook and on the eye of it place a thin piece of copper and while doing so, leave a piece of copper hanging and do this for all the leaders you make. Now that you have your fishing rod and hook insert it into the fish from the gill till it reaches the stomach and pushes it as it bends around the body of your bally.

Now that your hook is in and secure, position it well to make the fishing gadget straight and flat and start to place the leader in a proper position by wrapping copper wire around the bait fish at all the right places that are the mouth, leader and the bill. When you have done this and your fishing gadget is now tight and firm, test your fishing rod in the water to ensure no unwanted twirls are formed.

When your water test is now successful and the fishing gadget has been proven to be good for fishing, release it 30 yards away from your boat and let the rest fall into place. Have your storage ready to store the fish as with no time fish will be all over your fishing gadget. This is a method that gets better with practice and the first failed attempt should not discourage you.

The bally used should be in the brine solution always, preferably even overnight before being used and the best bally to use is the freshly obtained ones but if it is not possible, frozen bally that is properly thawe=d can then be used.

An activity as old as fishing is one that has been modified over the years and has seen numerous changes from it. This means that it should be practised around the morality of ensuring that another marine life is respected and not endangered in any way.




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