b'Like any style of fishing there are always several ways to rig your line for any given style of fishing and while some people swear by a certain trace, hook, and mainline setupothers just as easily dismiss that setup as not a great setup for catching fish.O utlined below isonto thick monofilament betweenwith the hooks snelled onto the the tried-and-true200-250lb, or for those who usetrace or you can buy these traces method that we usea Kontiki or long Line setupyoupre-made, either way is fine. On when drone fishingwill know it as backbone. Thisthe other end of the trace is a metal every week, and itmainline and backbone setup makesclip.This metal clip simply attaches has been extremelyeverything incredible strong rightto the backbone, in between the successful for us.Wedown to the sinker on the end. metal crimps.So, this setup itself is have used a similarThis is important so that the mainsimilar to what you might use for a setup now for many years (withsection of your rig is stronger tobeach longline or Kontiki setuponly some variation) and we know thatwithstand big fish such as sharks,for drones we use far less hooks.it is a proven method of catchingrays, and snags on the bottom. We normally fish with no more than fish when used from the beach. On the backbone itself, we usea seven-hook trace, as this is ample metal crimps at about one metrefor attracting fish to take a bite.If BOAT ROD COMBOintervals from each other from theyou happen to get a good haul of, For the mainline, which is spooledsinker end and right up to the swivel,say five good fish on at once, this is onto the reel, go with 80lb braidand the traces are simply long-linemore than enough weight to haul and then attach (via a heavy swivel)traces which you can make yourselfin at one time on a rod and reel.FEATURED IN FIGZ #55 /FISHINGINGODZONE65'