Cat-O-Copter Rig

Posted by Keith on January 29, 2010 under Carp and Coarse Fishing, Help and Tips | Be the First to Comment

The Cat-o-Copter Rig

Right, so we’ve reached the last in our series of running water rigs for Wels Catfish…..this week it’s the turn of a trusty favourite and very well used rig known as the Cat-o-Copter rig.

The cat-o-copter rig allows a live bait to be suspended well above a snag, weeds or just clear of the bottom for what ever reason.

This rig is very popular amongst big river anglers on venues such as the Rio Ebro in Spain.

You will need to fish this rig in a beach caster style format with the rod positioned in an upright position and placed into a very sturdy butt stand that is well anchored to the ground.

Position a Poly ball pop up onto the main line followed by a bead, heavy duty strong swivel and then another bead, Poly Ball and lastly one more bead.

Now tie on a strong swivel to the end of the mainline. To this you will need to attach a weak link from which to anchor the whole rig to the bottom with a heavy lead. I would use about 6lb line and you will need to vary the weight according to the strength of current.

The principal behind this is that as soon as a cat picks up the suspended hook bait it can swim away and your weak link will snap, this leaves you in direct contact with the fish and no trailing lead to be concerned about!

The only other thing left to do with the rig is to tie on a good strong hooklength material and hook to the inline helicopter style swivel.

To stop the whole thing sliding up the line straight to the surface or to fix it at a specific depth you will need to tie a sliding stop knot above the whole rig.

Tight lines

Keith