The best damn sinker rig for bluefin tuna. Using this method will make your day! 

Fished on the San Diego Thursday and rented a rod, crew rigged me up with this setup on 130# leader. Leader and main line was tied to ring. Landed 90lb. Bluefin. Thank you Captain Ryan and crew!

Sage advice! Thanks Sam! Going to try the ringed sinker setup

Love that West coast bass fishing and finesse anglers have applied something new and valuable to the offshore heavy tackle community. Drop shot FTW! Great tips!

I love how drop shot is making its way to all sorts of fishing.

Great information. Certainly used it and worked for us over the weekend on 100lb and 4/0 ringed circles

Great advice!!!

Man this is a helpful video!

Nice technique for deep fish! Gracias 🙏🏽 mil veses

Interesting. Will try on our 2.5 this weekend. We use rubber band inline sinker rig. But we only fish 6-7 people we drop carefully rarely tangle. But in combat fishing I could see this being effective. We use very weak rubber bands and it’s rare to have a sinker with fish usually clears. Thanks for great content! Best of luck out there!

Good day, Sam. Which size/brand "ringed circle hook" is recommended for an 80# and 100# setup? Thanks.

What’s the difference between this and a rock fish setup with dropper loops? Also how does the bait swim around being tethered to a straight line?

do you all think this would work with a flat fall lure at the bottom inplace of a sinker?

this should work great with chunking/non-swimming bait. Gonna have two set ups, 1 rubber band and 1 drop shot next year to see how both work

The other advantage to this. If on the rubberband above the hook, especially at night, when you get close to gaff the decky has to cut off the sinker, if its too far away from the hook. This eliminates that.

Great rig! What if you put a hook on the bottom sinker with a split ring to snag into the fish so that sinker won't swing when reeling it in?

Can it tangled up with others fishermen lines with the singer still on?

How do you hook the bait fish nose hook?

If this is working and the sardine doesn't need to be free to swim around, it does raise the question of using a more traditional drop-shot rig. Might experiment with one on next week's trip.n. Perhaps 2-3 sardines on droppers too short to tangle, with a knife jig dragging the whole thing down....

I have some 500 lb 3 way swivels, i wonder if those would be useful

Good info I usually hate using the rubber band sinker or dropper loop because of tangles… especially in combat fishing on sport boats

Will the live bait be able to move naturally and attract a bite with this rig?

Do you just use floral from torpedo to the hook? Is the main line mano?

Do you leave the reel in free spool? Let the fish run or lock in?

Is this getting bit better or is it just a way to avoid tangles for those who drop their baits too fast?

does it have to be Ringed Circle hook or Ringed Offshore fine?

If using 100# plus FC, I am assuming you are you crimping the line to the hook? Just going by the old rule-of-thumb of anything over 100#, crimp.

So is it fluorocarbon to the hook or mono ? I know it's fluorocarbon to the weight

Yeeaaaa!!!

What kind of hook method works best for this? Nose hook, butt hook, gill hook?

Couldn't you tie the hook on the line with a Palomar knot and leave a long tag end for the weight?

Very good idea, but I would like to see hook designed so the hook is facing up

Do you still use flouracarbon leader?

I noticed he said to tie the weight to the ring and the main line to the hook eye. Why not just tie the main line to the ring also? Does this make a difference in how this rig fishes?

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For those who are trying it out please report back. I’d love to get a comparison. I’ll try it out on my trip near the end of June and report back.

So bait is not swimming, it’s just static on hook? Is that a factor? I guess not if people are catching’em…

Instead of tying the extra line to the sinker tied to the rubber band first and then to the sinker with the rubber band

Not a bait fisherman but if both lines were tied to the ring, then the hook would be facing up.

Now… they’re going to eat your sinkers off lol Has anyone had that happen lately?

I don’t see this as a revolutionary rigging. Drop shot style with the hook in line with the leader does not offer the bait any free swimming natural motion. Not much difference than a sinker rig with the bait foul wrapped around the main line above the sinker. The best rigging is a dropper loop if you have time to tie it, but in a quick switch for deep drop, the sinker rig is the fastest way to go.

This is tied incorrectly. The main line is suppose to go to the topside of the ring , then the hook, then the drop shot line. This has the hook pointing up, then you hook the sardine from the bottom up. Lol…..

All thise guys paying capitan concepts could of got it for free right here

why use rubber sinker method? Why not connect the sinker direct to the line instead? thanks