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About the Zebco Magic Flatty Rig 6 UV

The Zebco Magic Flatty Rig 6 has a 0.60mm body and 0.40mm hook lines, with red hooks under a run of yellow and orange beads and a small gold blade on each line. It comes on a winder with a snap swivel at the end for the lead. As a flatty boat rig it's lowered with the lead on that swivel, so the baits fish just above the seabed. It's also one of the simpler sea fishing rigs for beach casting.

The rig is UV active: its attractors are meant to react to ultraviolet light, so they stand out in murky water and low light. Flatfish are known to be curious about beads, and plaice and flounder rigs have used them for years. Neither guarantees more bites, but they help the bait get noticed.

Size 2 hooks suit flounder and dabs, which have small mouths. Flounder are around all year, especially in estuaries and over mud, and dabs feed over sand. Plaice come close to the shore from spring to autumn over sandy or muddy ground; for them, small baits work best. So it works as a flounder rig or a plaice rig, or as a general flatfish rig for sea fishing.

Ragworm and lugworm catch most flatfish; small harbour ragworm and peeler crab are good too. Like most flatfish rigs, it fishes best close to the seabed; used as a UV active boat rig, let it down until the lead touches, then keep the line just tight so the baits lie on or near the bottom. Keep a spare UV flatty rig in your tackle box for when one snaps off or tangles; a rig wallet keeps them apart.