Brad's Cut Plug Rigging for the ocean?

I have used Brads cut plug for years for Bull trout and some for salmon.  I have the rubber band in the bait loop of the upper hook.  By doing that, the hook is always pointed out away from the back of the lure and the trailing hook a short distance behind the lure.  When a fish gets hooked, the rubber band comes off the cut plug, but is captured in the loop.

Same here.  I've never lost a rubber band and like being able to fix the orientation of the leading hook.

This is how I'm rigging mine. I'm adding a second bead chain though. One a foot or so in front of the cut plug and one at the start or the leader. We get a lot of weeds/eelgrass at times. We'll see how it goes, I guess.

Excellent video,  Thanks.  I've just rigged 2 Brad Cut Plugs.  Very straightforward and understandable. 

I have a question about how to reduce line twist. Last weekend at Astoria I had two instances of Brad's cut plugs coming back to the boat with the leader totally balled up in twists. I had a bead chain both in front of and behind my in line flasher, but I didn't use a bumper between the flasher and chain as shown in the illustration someone posted earlier from Brad's.  Any ideas why this happened twice, and never happened to me before? Possibly caused by fouling by seaweed, or is the bumper necessary?

Thanks in advance.

I have a question about how to reduce line twist. Last weekend at Astoria I had two instances of Brad's cut plugs coming back to the boat with the leader totally balled up in twists. I had a bead chain both in front of and behind my in line flasher, but I didn't use a bumper between the flasher and chain as shown in the illustration someone posted earlier from Brad's.  Any ideas why this happened twice, and never happened to me before? Possibly caused by fouling by seaweed, or is the bumper necessary?

Thanks in advance.

Try adding a bead chain in the leader between your flasher and the Brad's. This year, I'm running about a foot of 60 pound mono from my flasher to a bead chain, then a couple feet of 30-40 pound mono from that bead chain to the Brad's. I've had minimal line twist issues all season with this rigging. I wouldn't worry about the bumper--I've been attaching my flasher directly to a wire spreader this year to help shorten my gear train, and it's worked just fine (both with regards to line twist and catching fish  ).

If you're picking up a lot of grass on your bead chains, they'll clog up and stop working. Be sure to clean off your bead chains frequently if you're fishing in a lot of grass.

If you're picking up a lot of grass on your bead chains, they'll clog up and stop working. Be sure to clean off your bead chains frequently if you're fishing in a lot of grass.

At ORC this year, the leaders from two Brad's Cut Plugs I was using got totally twisted up after the bead chains got gunked up with brown jellyfish slime.

All that's needed for replacement bands on these is surgical tubing of the necessary diameter and you just cut tiny even sections off with good shears, and pop in a snack baggie or an old magic thread cylinder. I run my band over the trailer hook and I've had quick hits that didn't stick but did pop open the cavity and the band was left dangling on the bend of the trailing hook. Out of curiosity, what are some things any of you've had success stuffing in them? I've done the krill powdered up tuna in oil thing a half dozen times but that hasn't caught me anything. A fresh strip of herring/anchovy inside however has and I've had numerous hits that way.

Out of curiosity, what are some things any of you've had success stuffing in them? I've done the krill powdered up tuna in oil thing a half dozen times but that hasn't caught me anything. A fresh strip of herring/anchovy inside however has and I've had numerous hits that way.

My freezer is packed with a lot of blue- to purple-label sized spawner herring I caught from Yaquina Bay last year. Very slimy, juicy buggers full of milt/eggs. I chop one of those herring up into little bits with a knife, guts and all, and I have enough bait to stuff my Brad's for a couple of salmon trips. Cost-effective, and it's produced a ton of fish for me this season (getting to the point where I need to be careful about tagging out too soon  ).

I canned some shad in oil for Brad's this year and it caught fish in the ocean.  Haven't tried it anywhere else yet.

I canned some shad in oil for Brad's this year and it caught fish in the ocean.  Haven't tried it anywhere else yet.

That's a great idea. Those American shad are uber oily.

Rubber bands rot pretty quickly, unlike plastic.  +1 on the trailing hook!