Thread: inline straw rig without the bubble?

Has anyone here ever made an inline straw rig with two or three straw pieces and hooks with a weight on the last hook for casting? Sort of a castable in line sabiki but a little larger?

I'd have to see a diagram to fully understand what you are proposing, but I think the problem may be the heavy line/wire requirements for bite resistance making the action "less than desirable".

I'm sure that it would catch fish in the event of a frenzied Spanish bite, but if you were ever (un)lucky enough to hook 2+ Spanish at once, I'm not sure you could save it from the sharks. That would be a lot of trouble to rig up to be taken away by a shark all at once...

I have seen rigs that had four or five short pieces of small diameter rubber tubing that were rigged like sabikis. It would be like tying a multiple drop pompano rig and using tubing on the drops.

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You're describing a Mackerel Tree rig.
Very effective when the Spanish are hitting anything and everything, you can hook 2-3 fish at a time.
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Also look at the larger sabiki rigs by R&R Tackle, their model BR3 with size 22 hook, 60# mainline and 40# branch.
The 40# branches will hold up pretty well.

Both of these are cast and then jigged back, really puts a hurting on them when they're in full chew down.

I've seen tree rigs before, and I've used them and smaller sabiki type rigs for atlantic mackerel in Maine. Works great, as long as there aren't many seals around. What I was thinking was that I would tie on a straw rig (no bubble, but leave the tag end long, say 20". Then I would run the tag end down the inside of the straw rig, out the other end and tie on another weighted straw rig 12-14" from the first.

Sometimes when I fish for striper using topwater plugs I'll tie a 1/8 oz marabou jig to the tail hook on the plug. I'm always surprised when a 30" striper grabs that little jig instead of the plug, but it happens regularly enough. Anyhow, that was what made me think of adding a trailer or two.

And Crosshairy, you're right... I didn't take the sharks into account. lol. I've never had to deal with them before.

Somebody was throwing one Saturday morning on the Octi with a gotcha on the bottom. By the pier rules any type sabiki rig cannot be cast over handed.

it's not a sabiki. All hooks are tied directly to the main line (as few as two straw rigs up to as many as the user wanted). No branches. The only similarities are that a person could make it longer with several straw rigs (if they weren't worried about multiple hookups and subsequent losses to sharks) and that the weighted straw rig is the last one on the line- like using a diamond jig on the end of a sabiki.

So here was my idea. Only two straws on this one. The straw with the treble hook has a wire that runs up the straw to the ring that the fluoro is tied to. There are split shot on the wire totaling about 3/4 oz to help cast. The line coming from the straw with the single hook goes up to a swivel. It could easily be adapted to three or four hooks, but as has been pointed out the odds of landing three or four spanish at a time is low due to a hungry shark population. I'm not really looking for multiple hook ups, I'm just hoping to cover more water with each cast and thought that a rig like this would cover a greater depth of water since the weighted straw on the end will travel deeper than the straw above it. Multiple straws would potentially allow a person to work 4-5 feet of water column with each cast.

Yeah, that sure sounds like a Mackerel Tree Rig to me too. Saw some a Wal-mart in Fairhope the other day. And ChileRelleno is right. VERY effective when in a biting mood.