Paternoster
BeginnerAlso called Upright flapper
Snoods standing off the main backbone on booms or stiff snoods. Useful in a tide so baits do not wrap the lead.
Keep baits away from the backbone in moving water.
The knots are still droppers and swivels. Booms add bulk, not a new casting method. You have to buy booms that do not fold — that is shopping, not advanced tying.
Diagram
When to use
A run of tide on a pier, harbour wall or beach where a plain flapper snood wraps the backbone. Booms or stiff snoods hold the bait out.
Piers with a run of tide, harbour walls, a bit of flow over sand.
Ground and marks
Pier, Harbour, Beach. Ground: sand, mixed.
A run of tide on a pier, harbour wall or beach where a plain flapper snood wraps the backbone. Booms or stiff snoods hold the bait out.
A long-range punch in a side wind — bulk kills distance. A kelp hole — booms snag. Use a short snood or a wrasse rig instead.
This is a moving-water rig. Slack high on a pier can still work if you drop to the legs; a fast ebb needs more lead, not more snood.
Marks: Pier, Harbour, Beach. Ground: sand, mixed.
Use a lead that actually holds. Baits should stand out, not stream back along the backbone. If they wrap, the boom is too floppy or the snood is too long.
Hooks 6–1. Lead: 4–6 oz in tide.
Backbone 40–60 lb. Plastic booms or stiff 60 lb snoods, kept short. Rolling swivels at the boom eyes. 4–6 oz in tide. A rotten-bottom if the wall is snaggy.
How to tie it
- 01Use plastic booms or stiff 60 lb snoods.
- 02Keep them short.