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RIGS
	Tope fishing is one of the most exciting aspects of our sport. Rigs out, clutch set, ratchet on - sitting in anticipation of the ratchet screaming, the reel paying line out as a large tope runs off with your baited hook. That's the easy bit - now you have to land the fish!

Rigs are fairly straight forward for tope fishing. They can either incorporate single hooks or 2 hooks rigged pennel style. The hooks are tied to a trace of between 4 and 6ft in length of 100 - 150lb nylon. some people crimp the nylon, personally I prefer to tie the hook and swivel on.

BAITS

Rig examples

Mackerel, herring, Eel section, dabs.

Where as you often here about mackerel flappers, my proffered method is to fish a single whole or half mackerel. All around the north Wales coast we have an abundance of dogfish, keeping bait whole helps to keep the dogfish and huss away from your baits.

METHOD

Uptide, across tide or downtide all work well when tope fishing. At Holyhead, when we fish for tope in numbers at Holyhead Deep we are fishing in 150ft to 180ft of water. Neap tides are essential on this mark, as the tide can steam through like a freight train. Main point here is to ensure that your bait is anchored firmly to the ground, and presented correctly for the tope to take. Rigs will vary in length depending on the strength of tide.

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