Rigging for Monster Catfish

[Music] hey y'all my child is here how you doing today hey a lot of y'all have been asking me about my rigs I use out there catching those big old catfish well let me show you what I have here I have several of these medium heavy big cat fever rods these things were awesome do a heck of a job the medium heavy seven foot seven foot six rods you see these have had a lotta a lot of use I got paired up with a boo 7,000 but what I got on here is some 65 pound braid this is actually cast king braid the way I have my rig set up I've been using this float 3 inch float with the versa rattles a little tangle here for quite a while let's start from the beginning here I've got a nice little chain swivel going from my 65 pound braid chain swivel a 50-pound by a perfectly big game versa rattle three-inch styrofoam float 10 OTT circle hook now what are the disadvantages to this float I don't know if you can see it but when you catch a big fish what can happen as this one has the line ripped the float right down the side so I got something in the mail the other day that ought to fix this problem so I'm going to share that with you it's in just a minute alright so I'm gonna do you take this float off here need a pair of pliers get these stops out so on if you can see it so did this one probably caught day one of my last 30 pounders forty pounders on but you see the line ripped right through that flow do that cut this leader off now in the mail the other day come for me I got some demon dragon now these works I mean the same principle is my float in my rattle but with these dudes these floats are baits and they also have a rattling so what I got do is get a piece of line I'm gonna tie this to my swivel and then tie me a hook on to the end all right let me take all this off this line here needs to be replaced so what I got this is how I store my leaders whole worm bag got spare hooks in here I've got my pre tag my pre-tied hooks or priests nailed folks it just makes it a little easier from that on the water and I got a tie one on hook that is I never drink out on the water so here's the pre-tied leader here you don't need a lot of length on this so what I'll probably do is cut this off all right so this end here I'll just tie a regular old Palomar knot on the end y'all know Paul Martin I'm sure I mean if you want me to do a knot tying video I will but that's not today so time a Paul Maher not on here Toller tight trim off the tagline we're gonna need a whole lot right here in the wintertime throw this in time to my chance well I know this and I'm gonna do a improved clinch knot y'all know an improved clinch knot put it on there one two three four five six about seven turns go through your base I can't see worth darn and come back through again wait a little bit snug it on up I always like to trim the tag ins I don't like a bunch of tag ends hanging out just interferes with everything except tangles everything up tell you what these scissors are a little stiff now take my ten out hoop come on this in don't need to be out there that too far do another improved clinch knot one two three four or five six seven back through the leap yeah it might be a little too long I don't know put experiment with it see we have so this is a demon dragon red and what we got over here slide but whatever size sinker you want on there on the James River and check a tide gets moving pretty heavy odds really put at least two 8-ounce sometimes a twelve so yeah I might go ahead and shorten this up a little bit but for now that's the basic demon dragon for a river now on a lake it's gonna be a little different you're probably going to use some long snag lists sinkers but up on the James ain't a whole lot of snags maybe leaves just River sinkers say eight ounce to twelve minutes anyway that's about it right there so hopefully I've been working for the last four weeks straight today's like my first day off track it out on the water tomorrow so y'all hang in there and stand by for some more video so anyway thanks for watching you know the deal I can subscribe thanks see you later [Music]

Channel: Fishing /Cooking with Mike Chavez

Views: 45,412

Rating: 4.875 out of 5

Keywords: Demon Dragon, Big Cat Fever, Kast King, Abu Garcia

Id: GJ6EAkxYNqU

Length: 8min 21sec (501 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 22 2017