Rigging With The Rack

Equipment Needed: Rigging rack Waxed floss ½-ounce egg sinker
1. Double up a 12-inch section of floss and thread it through the ½-ounce sinker, leaving a loop on one end.
2. Put the resulting loop over the ballyhoo's head and seat it behind the gill plates on both sides.
3. Place the ballyhoo in the Rigging Rack and rest the weight on the ledge provided.
4. Make an overhand knot in the floss and tighten down, putting your index fingers in the bait's eye sockets to hold the bait in position.
5. Pass each tag end through the bait's eye sockets and pull gently to take up any slack.
6. Flip the ballyhoo over in the Rigging Rack and tie an overhand knot.
7. Pull each tag end apart until the knot slides down, closing the gill plates.
8. Trim both tag ends.
9. Slide your circle hook under the first knot that you made on the bait's upper lip. Put the bait in the water and watch it swim like Michael Phelps!