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For bass I make a couple kind of rigs. The "straight" rig about 3 feet long with a barrel swivel and hook. A high low with 3 dropper loops about 3 or 4 inches and a barrel swivel and then a other high low with droppers and a foot long leader coming off of each dropper. The 3 way I make with just one dropper and a 18 or so inch leader. I use improved clinch knots on everything I tie. Depending on where I fish I'll make rigs out of anything between 20 and 100 pound test.
My cod/tautog/seabass rigs are a simple high low tied with 2 droppers and a 12 inch leader off the droppers.
Fluke rigs are a dropper about 8-10 inches long with the hook about 18-20 inches back and a 2-3 ounce sinker.
scup rigs are made with 3 droppers about 6 inches long
I like kerbed mustad J hooks for bass , and clear Ande line for leaders/rigs.
Don't forget to wet your knots.
For blues, I use 40-60 pound black plastic coated wire about 3 feet long, a barrel swivel, same tinned kerbed mustad hooks and some crimps. I don't use crimping plyers, I use wire cutters to put 3 or 4 good "crimps" on the crimps. Just don't crimp the crimps so hard you cut into them with the cutters. Also, big blues cant bite through hundred pound test Ande to easily. I've caught some nice sized blues while fishing with bait. 100 pound test Ande leaders will catch bass and blues.
I can't remember the last time I bought a rig.
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