techo

http://www.animatedknots.com/albright/index.php With a slight modification, pinch out the core of the loop end and feed through with a needle before tying. It *does* have a place in fishing. 4-5 colours of leadcore (20 odd feet to a colour) will get your lure down approx 5 feet per colour, with a lighter strength leader (12lb leadcore, 6lb trace) and no swivel it works a charm. For what you are intending to use it for a few .1g or .2g split shot on the main will have the same result, tied off to a swivel or join with a lighter hooklink should be fairly safe.

Incidentally if anyone is interested in chucking hardbody lures about, that is the knot to use. It shifts the wiggle/pivot point of the lure from the tow point towards the middle of the lure, meaning lures have more action and can be worked slower. That single knot tripled my hit rate on perch. Downside is that heavier lures worked off a downrigger can saw through the knot due to increased water pressure/friction on the line. Cheers, Techo

I've got some from last September/October that's still good. It's been sitting in a shed all summer (40C+) in sealed containers,(3l milk) merrily soaking up the salt/sugar/scopex flavouring. Prebaited an area last weekend and the fish were feeding heavily on it. Will use it this weekend.

Why would anyone ban braid?

In thru the carapace at the base of the tail and out thru the head. A prawn/yabby will eyeball a predator and raise its claws in defence and get sucked in head first. Its why brown trout guts are often full of claws, and why soft plastics for other species are designed to be rigged for a tail-first retrieve. Another tactic I've had success with is to just use cooked prawn heads with the hook sideways thru the head, with the shank running along the body and the eye of the hook towards the where the tail would be (if I hadn't eaten it) Cheers, Techo

Began learning about hair rigs a while back, stuffed if i'm going to import piles of equipment, pre-rigged hook lengths, bait drills and whatnot. Necessity being the mother of invention, I've come up with the following technique which is easy, effective and can be done for less that $2. Catch and hookup rates have gone up since using this, and clean corner of the mouth hookups too. Equipment: tooth pick (make holes in boilies, also to pull line through loops) hypodermic needle (guage to accomodate line size) syringe (fill with water and use to clean needle blockages) Beads (stoppers) Scissors and 3lb line (I'm sure you know what these are for) Step 1: Tie a perfection loop in the line http://www.cabelas.com/information/cabelas-field-guides/Knot-Library-Fishing-Knots/Perfection-Loop.html Loop the line through a couple of times to form a bulky stopper knot. Cut from spool, leaving about 6 inches length from the knot. Step 2: Poke the pointy metal thing through the bait, hemped corn in this instance. Feed the line through the point of the needle. If the needle has goop in it, squirt some water through using the syringe to clear it. Slide the bait off the needle so it sits against the knot. (edited image so line is visible) Step 3: Trim off the loop, and cut the tag to the width of the bait, so it sits on it. For larger items, I just whack on a plastic stop bead. Then just wind on the hook using the knotless knot to the desired length. Advantages: Cheap as anything. Equipment is freely available. Easy to set bait to hook length. childs play to rig up. easy to change hook sizes when needed. bait doesn't easily strip, unless you are playing a fish. Disadvantages: Annoying to tie in high winds. Slowish to rebait a hook. Needles thru fingertips suck. Single use only, you have to unwind each hair to put the next one on. The boilie is basically my groundbait, corn juice, flour, breadcrumbs, instant oatmeal, hemp flour, oil, water and vanilla essence - then a few eggs and extra oil added to make it bind. I realise that telling most of you how to rig a hair is preaching at the choir, but I'm sure someone will get some use out of this method. Regards, T.