 Welcome back to the channel y'all. Here in the Silver Bullet we're doing our first technical Tuesday video so this would be a video that I put up on Tuesdays that goes into a specific piece of gear or a technique or just something really cool that I like that I encountered that I want to share with you guys and it gives me an opportunity to go into great detail. A lot of times when I'm filming these videos out on the water in the woods I sometimes just forget to go into the technical things that some of you really like some of you don't care to know the full details but and I've just done it I mean I've done this over ten years so I don't often remember to explain things fully every time to everyone so that's what we're going to be doing on these technical Tuesdays so what I want to do in today's video is go into my full setup for a weightless rig and I really prefer to throw weightless plastics on spinning gear sometimes I'll throw them on on bait casting gear here in Texas when we've got just thick timber I really just want to you know wrench on some fish with a big line or something like that but most of the time you get way more bites doing this is throwing that lighter line that lighter setup and the lighter your line is to the weight of your bait you can just fling it really really well so I'm going to go from literally the hook to the reel the full explanation here so first of all this is my spinning combo and many of you have asked about this this reel now still got like a testing number on it testing number seven it's the only one I have so I'll remember that but this this reel is something that we are working on that I feel like is really close we've been working on this with Ketchco it's I can go into full details on a later video but I've been impressed with the aspects of it and haven't had any boo-boos really to speak of so anyway spinning reel this is a 2,000 size so 2,000 size spinning reel on a spinning rod this is a 7 foot just standard issue 7 foot this is our Guggen Squad green series rod so this is our entry level and this is the finesse we have a finesse and a finesse light but the really light one the finesse light that's better for like drop shotting strictly drop shotting and really light finesse I like the the standard finesse which is I think just a medium it's gonna be yeah it's a 7 foot medium power but a fast action the power is important you want that medium so I don't want to go with a full light I know you guys can't see this full flex in this rod I don't go with a full light because especially if I'm throwing a hook that I still need to set the hook through the plastic I want to have a little bit of beef on the rod but I still want to be able to fling it out there very easily and you can't just throw a real heavy setup with the spinning rig doesn't work too well so this setup right here I really love I get asked about line all the time what's that yellow line you're using and I'm finally gonna address that here so it is it is our Guggen Squad line that we work with on we work with catch go on making this but you know I get sent samples of things and different baits and different products and this is just samples of our line of the braid that is an 8 strand but it is in this orange yellow color and the reason that I like this color is because I can see it it stands out to me so if I'm looking at my line when I'm throwing a weightless bait I can see if there's any kind of little movement side to side I can watch it twitch I really like it for crappie fishing looking at those little twitches so we've got a chartreuse and an orange unfortunately this is not available let me know in the comments if you would like to see a fluorescent colored line in terms of the size of braid this is really important I like to start with 20 for most of my weightless plastic rigs if I'm crappie fishing I like to go down to 10 maybe I'll do 12 pound braid but I like to start at 20 30 gets a little thick for the spinning combo and in my opinion 20 allows you to cast like a dream that's really where it shines especially when you want to start skipping up under docks and you know just casting this thing a really long way and take full advantage of the spinning setup 20 pound braid is awesome and because our braid is 8 strand it casts really well it's it's more round so it goes through the guides better 4 strand just so you guys know 4 strand is often more abrasion resistant and better for like heavy flipping if you're flipping like docks or heavy timber or something like that that's when a 4 strand is better an 8 strand it's just a better overall caster you get better performance with it but it is less abrasive resistant so 20 pound Guggen squad 8 strand braid now I also like to use a leader line attached to that and often I'll use 12 pound 12 pound works really well with the 20 pound braid sometimes I'll go up to 15 if I've got you know a lot of docks maybe some standing timber something like that if you want to go down a really light line say you're fishing super clear water and want to use braid then I would probably drop a rod power and go with you know 8 6 pound fluorocarbon to like 12 pound braid 15 pound braid those combos are going to work out a little bit better but this combo that I'm talking about here this medium power with the 20 pound braid with the 12 pound fluorocarbon leader that's going to work really well I think for most people across the country so let's talk about what kind of fluorocarbon line I use I do use our Guggen squad fluorocarbon just in a pinch when you know I'm in the boat just got a re-rig real quick but if I have the time I like to use a dedicated fluorocarbon because a castable fluorocarbon is not going to be as strong as a pure fluorocarbon leader like something that you would use in salt water fishing because there is no there's hardly any castability to this if you were trying to spool this onto your reel you'd have a very difficult time casting it because it has better properties for abrasive resistance it's very tough I don't want to break off that's the point so you sacrifice that when you put in castability into fluorocarbon it's all about the extrusion process that's a that's a thing for a whole other video but this is 12 pound dedicated Seaguar gold label right here I'll sometimes use this use this for crappie fishing as well with like a 6 or an 8 as a dedicated leader and I'll go about four or five foot you know not quite a rods rods length with that four or five foot that enables me to make pitches do roll cast with it sometimes without even having the knot go through the the eyes of the rod but the knot is the next big thing to this and what I like to use to connect these two lines is an alberto knot so I learned this not about three or four years ago I was using a uni uni splice and the uni uni splice works okay but after a while of casting it through the guides it does start to get a little wear and I've just noticed that you know if I get snagged and I pull on it real hard I definitely break the uni uni splice more than I do the alberto knot so alberto is really simple you know once you do it a few times you'll be able to to master it and what I like about it is it does go through the the guides really well if you wanted to get really crazy you could go with like an fg knot it probably take me an hour to tie that it's not something I want to do in the garage or on the boat but I find that the alberto knot works pretty darn good so let's actually go through that process real quick I'll have a detailed view of this where you guys can see it up close but I needed to rig this pole anyways after a googen week things always get broken and trashed and lures are all over the place and I have to sit down and rig things it's usually pretty crazy this last googen week was particularly insane I just found some cat food in my boat so I've got my braid I want to give myself plenty of room to work with set that off to the side now what you want to do with the fluorocarbon leader is take it and make a loop on the end and then you're going to take your braid and the braid is very limp right so this is how you can remember this which which end do I tie the loop on you tie the loop or you make the loop on the stiffer line which is the fluorocarbon that you're going to take that loose line that braid you're going to go through the loop and I like to pinch that pull the braid up give myself a little room and this is the simplest thing ever you're just going to make wraps I'm going to make about eight or nine wraps three four five and when you're doing these make sure you're not overlapping you just want to go right next to the last loop I lost track how many I got here the main thing is you don't want those to overlap then you want to take that tag in and you want to go back through your loop the same direction that your main line is going in both your tag in and your main line that are coming through the same way so then start pulling the fluoro and the braid can wet it a little bit slide it you'll notice it'll slide pretty easy and it's just wrapped around those two pieces of fluorocarbon what I also like about this knot is it's not it's not making like a big there's no there's no cinching it feels like like it goes down smooth you know sometimes you'll tie a knot and then you'll notice a little color change in your line like where there's some some pressure this is almost like just a constrictor knot so it's not doing that at all alright cut your line get a little bit of fluorocarbon tag in just a tiny tiny bit and then I'll leave more of the braid because the braid will fray it's not going to mess up your casting I'll leave you know up to an eighth of an inch on there sometimes give it one final tightening and then you're good to go all right so now we have our fluorocarbon end and we need a hook now this is going to depend on what kind of fishing you want to do here lately I've been doing more open water fishing some wacky rigging and wacky rig is is never a bad idea but you could also fish a regular style worm hook you know fish fluke style bait like a dart so just to keep continuity to the last video I uploaded where I was fishing a wacky rig a lot I was throwing a black with red flake lunker log five inch actually got one right here so I'll break that out and what I what I was not doing in the video was I wasn't putting a ring on that bait which will will save you some plastics it'll also enable you to just fling the hell out of it like skip it up under docks and I really like using the rings but regardless of that we're gonna use a wacky style hook or finesse style hook well we have a couple different sizes and finesse hooks with our Guggen Squad terminal tackle you know I've got I can't remember what these are if this is a size one or a one-ought but this hook that I'm using right here that you saw me using in the last video this is a finesse like open drop shot nose hooking drop shot wacky style hook this is the one that I really like to use there's a there's a bit of an offset to it which is great when you're wacky rigging and you would be shocked at how many big fish you'll catch on a tiny little hook like that now the problem with not using the ring is sometimes the fish when they bite down on the lunker log or whatever it is they can fold it they can squish it and sort of change the shape and end up making your hook set a little wonky where that that hook is going a different direction or going back into the plastic and that's just part of wacky rigging the the ring really stops a lot of it I'm gonna say 85% of it not all of it but it definitely helps the knot that I'm gonna tie on the hook is a knot that I tie 90% of the time and that is a uni knot it is the simplest knot again I love knots that don't put friction on my line when I am tight tightening them down and this is one of those knots that I've I mean I've tied it for over 10 years on bass baits and I can honestly say there's only been like a handful of times where the knot has actually broken and not even on a fish like just straight pulling it other than that it's just such a solid knot because as I tighten this knot now there's there's no resistance towards the base of the knot like a palmar other types of knots where it's it's it's constricting right there at the base and you'll see a little like a little kink in your line close to the line tie I don't know you can look at this knot there is no kink it is just you know it's perfectly tied on there with no crimps no little areas of stress on it no opaqueness either the only downside of that knot is if you are fishing around grass the tag in sticks straight out towards your your main line so it can sort of catch on vegetation every once in a while on the ring I'm sure everyone has seen these but you know what this thing is you stick it on the plastic slide your little ring on there and now they have ones that have pliers that you can stick on there a little easier than this but slap that pretty much in the middle I'm going to say on our baits it's it's right on the end of Guggen that's going to be the the midway point sort of go in at a at an angle not quite a 45 but just go through the plastic and go through that ring just a little bit of plastic and go through that ring and that baby is is ready to dangle right there ready to catch them so that is my complete setup for fishing weightless baits on spinning gear if you guys have any questions any anything else that you want to see for another technical Tuesday let me know in the comments down below and if you guys want to pick up any of the gear that I'm using you can go to Guggen squad calm it's linked down below you can use my promo code LFG saves you 10% off so you can use that code at checkout if you want to get any of the gear and thank you guys for tuning in to the first official technical Tuesday here on the channel as always Godspeed and all of your adventures and we'll see you on the next one