You guys are probably here because you need
some help with pier fishing. Well, today I want to help explain to you
guys some of the things that I always bring to the pier um, and that I always have success
on and I want to explain to you guys how I use it and when I use it, so stay tuned to
hear. So I've been fishing in many, many piers throughout
the United States and all of them have one thing in common, there are predator fish that
will hit a moving bait and some of the baits that I really like to use, they don't always
work, so I bring multiple different kinds of lures and different kinds of rigs to try
until I find them. so the first rig I'd like to talk about is
spoons. They come in all different shapes and sizes,
this one is actually a cheap one from China that will light up when you throw it into
the water, as soon as it goes to the water it'll start flashing lights and this works
really well at night time because it'll attract the fish, it'll see the flash and um, you
know that could look like a baitfish shimmering in the moonlight or just something interesting
for a fish to catch his attention. Now when I'm throwing spoons, I throw it far
to try and cover a lot of distance and I usually throw a spoon when I first get to a pier just
to see what kind of activity is going on around the pier. Spoon work all around the world because it
mimics a little baitfish swimming in the water. A spoon will give itself natural action, all
you gotta do is reel it in and it's very simple, simple way to start catching fish on lures
if you've never caught fish on a lure before, which I totally understand. It's kind of difficult to start getting into
lure fishing, especially if you were a bait fisherman most of your life, but you've gotta
remember these work. These work. Many, many, many people catch fish on spoons
and if you're not catching something on a spoon it's because you're not doing something
correctly. alright, next I want to talk to you guys about
a rig that I would call it a mixture of both lure and bait fishing and that's the flounder
rig. I put a swimbait at the end of this but you
can put literally whatever you want on the end of this hook, um, but the basic idea is
that it has this, you see this little shimmery thing right here, above the hook? that thing
will spin in the water so fish will see something flashing in the water and you can put a piece
of bait on here, I usually put a piece of Salty Tentacle right here, Super salty Squid,
I take a bit of this tentacle off and I put it right on here, that way it's got natural
scent and it's got natural flow to it. So something like this doesn't have the scent
but it has a nice flow. I would also use this if I didn't have Salty
Squid on me, this is a little lake fork swimbait, I think it's like a little 2 1/2- 3" This
rig works for so many different species, this is just a small hook, you can put a bigger
hook and do the same thing. I've caught perch, spot, croaker, rockfish,
bluegill, all sorts of things, anything that will hit a little swimming fish will hit this. It's a really good multi-species rig if you
wanna go out and catch a bunch of fish. When you first buy this rig, you can find
it at Bass Pro, Walmart, it just comes like this and there's a little loop up top right
here and sometimes people get confused how to tie these on. I'm going to show you the easiest way I learned,
my friend Edmund taught me how to use this rig not too long ago, um, and I haven't stopped
using it since 'cause it just works so well. I get a swivel clip. It can spin around freely, it's got a ball
bearing right here, and this clip will clip on to here, okay? and then this end goes to
the main line of your fishing rig--of your fishing reel. This is your main line end. Before you tie the main line, you wanna put
a sinker, and I usually use a sliding sinker or a bullet sinker, and it sits on it like
that. When you swim it through the water, this part
will sink and this part will flutter through the water, just like that, and there's many
ways you can retrieve this as well, you can do a slow retrieve on the bottom and that
will catch a lot of flounder, you can do a mid-column swim and you'll catch some perch,
there's a lot of different possibilities with this rig. They come in a package like this with usually
five to six hooks, these are size four, good for small inshore fish, little panfish. I'm going to be using this in Southern Maryland. Okay, next thing that I use constantly while
at the pier is these DOA swimbaits. It's pretty much the same thing as this, you
guys remember this? Except this is much larger. This is a 3 1/2 incher, and I get, I usually
go for a 1/4 oz. jig head, again it all depends on where you're fishing it if it's really
deep water and fast-moving water, 1/4 might not be enough, maybe you'll go with a 1/2
oz. But the general idea with these is that you
want it as light as you can get it and it still hit the bottom. Now it's time to put the swimbait on here. I've noticed a lot of people have confusion
about getting this jighead onto the actual swimbait as well, it's very simple. First thing you do, measure out where you
want the hook to come out. You see it comes out right here? Mark that down, mentally mark it down or physically
mark it down, and then you're going to put this hook through the front of the nose right
here, just like this, and push it straight back to where you marked it, okay? and then
you're gonna pull it out just like that and push it onto the swimbait and that's it. Okay? Now you're going to fish this the same way
I've always taught you how to fish these little swim jigs, there are many, many ways, you're
going to have to experiment different ways of retrieving it, um, but I find lot of times
that I like to cast it out, let it sink to the bottom, and then slowly retrieve it first
just to hit the bottom column first, 'cause I feel like a lot of times the fish are on
the bottom column. Those are three really great lures to use
while you're--if you're first trying to catch fish at the pier and you're really trying
to actually get on some fish, these have given me a lot of success while on the pier. I'm confident that all these rigs will work
pretty much any pier if there's fish. Now for you bait fishermen out there, uh people
who don't want to use lures, people who want to use bait instead, there's a lot of different
options with that too. I find a lot of times when I use bait I have
more confidence in catching fish. I find more success using live bait, something
about it being alive and the natural scent of it out there and it actually be moving
around out there where I don't have to--I don't have to make the action like I do with
like the swimbaits, I have to make the action and at the end of the day it's not a real
bait, it's not loaded with scent, it's not actually moving, so I don't think that it
could really beat a live bait so when I'm using bait I use a couple of different rigs
and again it all depends on the structure of the pier, if you're fishing rocky bottom
you don't really want to use a hi-low rig, because that sinker's gonna get stuck on the
rocks down there. So usually what I bring to the pier is a box
similar to this, this is just the box from the pier fishing adventure kit which is available
in the senkoskipper.com, um, this comes with pretty much everything I'm talking about now
plus way more, it's just a guide to teach you the rigs to tie all sorts of that stuff,
anyways, I bring a box similar to this every time I go pier fishing where I set up everything
I need to tie my rigs and to re-tie my rigs on the pier if needed and the rig that I'm
talking about today is the same one on the guide, which is either a knocker rig or a
Carolina rig and this rig is basically here it goes, ready? Hook, leader line, okay? and then from leader
line, you tie a swivel and this swivel will keep this from tangling your line when it
spins around in the water because there's a ball bearing in the middle of this. This will keep from line twists and your line
getting tangled. So now after I tie this on I'll put an egg
sinker on or a sliding sinker, and the weight of the sinker all depends on the structure
I'm fishing again, if it's really fsast moving water something like a 1/4 oz. might be way
too light. The next rig I want to talk about is the hi-low
rig, which is an all time classic rig, I'll show you right here. You guys have seen this rig before, right? It's the hi-low rig. Two hooks on here, doubles your chances for
fish, keeps it off the ground so crabs won't get your bait as easily. The hi-low rig is something that I use pretty
much everywhere, I don't just use it for pier fishing, I use it for beach fishing and you
can put any kind of bait on there that you want. The key with using the hi-low rig is to make
sure that you're not fishing a really rocky area because that'll get stuck really quick. If you want to learn how to tie these rigs,
we've got the entire tutorial on here. We've got a guide on how to tie these knots
and when to tie these knots, on what lures, on what rigs, because you tie different knots
on different rigs and different lures so we've got a guide online on senkoskipper.com, teaching
you guys what knots to tie and when. We've also got a pier fishing guide available
for instant download at senkoskipper.com where we'll teach you how to tie these different
rigs. Okay, let's run trough it one more time, spoons:
they work really well, pretty much every pier, try changing up the size of the spoon, try
changing up the retrieval speed of the spoons, okay next, this flounder rig, I'm not sure
if it's even called a flounder rig, I call it a flounder rig because it catches so many
flounder! Use this with a bullet weight and a snap swivel. Play with different retrieves, the same advice
for all of them, play with different retrieves. The fish'll tell you what kind of retrieve
it wants because it'll be hitting your bait, and then DOA swimbaits. These swimbaits work all over the world, all
over the world, anything that wants to eat a moving fish will eat it. The hi-low rig and the carolina rig, or a
knocker rig. That's all my advice for today, hope you guys
like this little segment. It always helps me to teach you guys because
it's a nice little refresher before I go back fishing and I thank you guys for watching,
if you have anymore questions about pier fishing, about any kind of fishing we do all sorts
of different kinds of tutorials on senkoskipper.com, so if you need more help, check that out,
for now, sayonara
