Cookie's adventure continues at Willard

[Cowboypirate]

Curious how you rig a "wiper rig"?

My wiper rig is mythological, just like the Willard wiper. If someone will show me how to catch one, then I can tell you what the rig looks like. 

I would be interested in hearing how you have your "mythological" wiper rig set up, in comparison to your catfish rig.

Kent, Carey is sitting beside me, eating lunch, and told me to respond since I had BFT open....so...feel free to critique or advise

For Cats

We run heavy action poles (Santee Blue cat size rods) Way over kill for the cats around here, but what we have. I only run 15 lb mono, high vis line for Utah cats. I may be the last of the mono users out here , but I like the stretch for cat as I take Carey's little nieces and nephews out and I think it has some forgiveness to it. They will have a slip sinker and a sinker stop to protect the knot. And,  good Whisker Seeker swivels. Knots are palmer or improved double chinch. I jump up to 20 or 25 mono leader and finish off with a circle hook size 5,6, or 7 depending on where I am fishing. The two variation to this are rigging with a Santee float. Right now my Santee floats are pre rigged and sold by whisker seekers. I run the single and double hook ones they sell. Or, a flig starting at Pats traditional size and up to a much larger version that I play with at the BRBR - they are set up in the traditional method discussed on the forum.

For wipers (bait fishing), I drop down to my med-heavy rods that have 12 or 10 lbs test. Same Carolina slip sinker, sinker stop and swivel set up as the cat rods. 15 or 12# leader, around a 12 to 16 " long with a #4 or 5 circle hook and a couple mussels. I have switched between a regular hood and a circle hook but if we are running cat and wiper rods at the same time, I keep circle hooks on them all so we dont  set a hook when we should not. We run a tight spool/bail. Which may be very different from others - I know there is a raging debate on open spool, loose drag, bait clickers, or tight when using a circle hook.

I also toss hardware for wiper, but that is not really what you were asking about