Booms
This page is home to a whole host of booms including Ziplock Booms, Ziplock Whisker Boom, Heavy Weight Running Booms, Light Weight Running Booms, 14" Mega Wreckers, 10" Mega-Wreckers, Tubi-Booms, Uni-Booms, 300mm Wreck Boom; Heavy Duty Wrecking Booms, Spreader Booms and a DIY Sea Boom Kit.
Ziplock Booms
Ziplock booms are the worlds most advanced fishing booms. Simple to use, yet devastatingly effective, they allow the angler to present natural or artificial baits in a totally unique way. The patented Ziplock system allows the angler to lengthen or shorten hook lengths at will, without ever having to cut and re-tie the line again, allowing you to keep up with ever changing tides and conditions. The Ziplock boom also allows you to fish hook lengths as long as you like, giving your bait the freedom to move far more freely and naturally in the tide or current, locking into position when the required trace length is reached, but automatically disengaging when a fish is hooked, sliding down towards the fish, reducing the trace length and allowing easy landing of your catch.
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A large Pollack taken on a 300mm Ziplock whisker boom over a deep mid channel wreck.
This boom is ideal for
presenting live or artificial baits on long flowing traces ( flying collar
rigs ), over the deepest wrecks or reefs. The extra length of the boom stops
the trace from tangling with the main line as you lower it to the sea bed.
Again an ideal wrecking boom, slightly smaller in length for ease of use, and designed for wrecks and reefs up to 150ft deep. This boom also makes an ideal down rigger for trolling baits and lures.
TOP TIP: The 230mm Ziplock Boom makes an excellent downrigger for trolling. Using this method you can stream your artificial lure, or live bait way out behind the boat, and then set it to fish at any depth. Put the boat into gear, hold the boom and let the lure drift back away from the boat. I've fished Bass Bandits 80 yards back before!! When you’re happy, lock the boom into position and lower it to the depth you want to fish. The lure is swimming way back, away from any disturbance, but directly in line with the weighted boom at the set depth. When a fish hits the lure the boom disengages, and slides all the way back to the swivel, tied 6ft above the lure, magic!!!
TOP TIP 2: Use cable ties to attach the weight to the boom, then cut the boom tubing down so it is just a bit longer than the weight, this just keeps things nice and tidy. With the weight fixed like this, it acts like a keel, and also prevents the lead from spinning!! If you’re switched on you can rig up several booms with different sized weights, so you can fish different depths.
150 mm (6") Ziplock boom
Designed for inshore reefs and shallow wrecks where a long trace will present your bait far more effectively than any normal boom.
Ziplock Heavy-weight 20-40lb class Running Boom
A 22lb Cod taken using a Ziplock heavy weight running boom and a 60ft long trace. The extra long trace allowed the big bait to move much more in the tide. Note how the boom has collapsed leaving only a very short trace length , allowing easy landing of the catch.
These booms are 14" long so stop any tangles on the long drop to the sea bed, but more importantly these booms are made from a thick walled tube so they don't bend up like a stick of liquorice as you lower your bait down.
The most impressive feature of these booms is the pivot end. This unique feature allows the boom to stand out at 90% to the main line when fishing, but when you get a pluck or take from a pollack, cod, coalfish or bass, the boom pivots downwards creating a straight line between you and the taking fish. This means you have a straight line from the fish directly up to your rod tip. You feel everything, the fish feels nothing, brilliant!!!
FIG 1 SHOWS HOW THE BOOMS SIT IN NORMAL FISHING MODE:
FIG 2 SHOWS HOW THE BOOMS PIVOT WHEN A FISH TAKES THE BAIT:
These 6” Uni Booms are ideal for either up-tide or down-tide fishing. Their extra length ensures traces are kept tangle free, especially when punching a bait out up-tide from the boat. The unique pivot end gives the ultimate in bite detection, ensuring you feel the fish, but the fish doesn’t feel you.
300mm Anti-Tangle Wrecking Booms
3x
300mm anti-tangle wrecking booms. Great value wrecking booms, ideal for all
deep water wrecking and reef fishing.
Make 25x 300mm wrecking booms at a fraction of the normal cost - kit comes complete with swivels and full, simple instructions.
Stainless Steel Booms & Swivels
Stainless steel booms with swivels. Ideal for beach, pier and boat fishing. Soft enough to be able to be clipped down for distance beach casting, but strong enough to hold your baits out for maximum presentation. These booms are fitted with a swivel at the end to stop kinks, and line twists. Use micro beads and trace crimps to secure on trace.
Complete boom package. Buy all the components you need to make the perfect boat or beach boom rig, and save money.
Normal price for all 3 products brought separately £5.49 plus P&P £2.25
Buy all 3 together £5.25 P&P £1.25
These superb Wrecking Booms are made from top quality, super heavy duty stainless steel. Designed to allow you to present your lures or baits on super long traces without tangling. The length of these booms allows you to lower your tackle down to the deepest wrecks, and the thickness of the boom stops it from bending upwards as you drop your tackled down, meaning far fewer tangles. Another great innovation of these booms is the quick change ends - allowing you to have ready-made rigs with either loops or swivels attached to be fitted in seconds and without having to re-tie your trace to the boom.
5 X HEAVY DUTY 15" WRECKING BOOMS
5
x 15" Wrecking Booms £3.99Quick change end
5 X HEAVY DUTY 10" WRECKING BOOMS
5
x 10" Wrecking Booms £3.75Heavy Duty Spreader Booms
5 X HEAVY DUTY 15" SPREADER BOOMS
These superb spreader booms, also know as 'Herne Bay' spreaders, are made from top quality super heavy duty stainless steel. These booms have been the guarded secret of some of the top boat match fishing champions. Designed to allow you to present 2 baits perfectly on the sea bed. They allow the two baits fishing side by side to give off two strong but individual, scent trails giving you twice the effect of a standard two hook flowing trace where one bait fishes behind the other and produces just a single scent trail. These booms are deadly for flatfish, cod and whiting.
5
x 15" Spreader Booms £4.50Copyright © 2006-2009 TraceAce Tackle. All Rights Reserved.