Rig masters needed

[chillfactor]

afraid, i have since had to eat my words on them after experiencing hook pulls, so apologies all round on that one.

Crikey are you an impostor

[chillfactor]

afraid, i have since had to eat my words on them after experiencing hook pulls, so apologies all round on that one.

Crikey are you an impostor

[chillfactor]

Definitely amen to that

[dalthegooner]

I know people spam to get their post count up, but you lot are really taking the pee...

[nealjt]

Or maybe there is two CM's!

[ianain]

Or maybe there are two CMs!

 

At least his posts contain correct capitalisation. I thought impatience was the probably the cause of dual posting (pressing the post button more than once because it hadn't submitted) but others are suffering the same.

 

One thing is for sure though Dal, he don't need to post twice to get his posy [yes posy] count up  

[ianain]

Press F5 instead of re-hitting the submit button

[dalthegooner]

To be fair, my comments weren't just aimed at CM (Chilly, Hutch and Cyborx, I'm looking at you )

[salokcinnodrog]

Just been having a think, how would splicing the hook on work for you?

It does give a stiffer section near the hook, and then whipping on your hair or even using a sliding ring on the shank stopped with a rig stop bead?

If you do splice it, with the stiffer section you could use it for a pop-up or snowman rig with the rig ring, or with a whipped hair as a bottom bait rig.

Tied one up with 25lb Merlin while on the bank this weekend.

I say tied, spliced one up this weekend.

Dental Floss whipped hair, spliced hook and swivel, the hook fitted with a shrink tube kicker.

I'll add picture to this later

[nealjt]

Ohh interesting, I look forward to the pic

[salokcinnodrog]

Tied one up with 25lb Merlin while on the bank this weekend.

I say tied, spliced one up this weekend.

Dental Floss whipped hair, spliced hook and swivel, the hook fitted with a shrink tube kicker.

I'll add picture to this later

As I said, it doesn't make it a complete length of 50lb Merlin; it still has a breaking strain of 25lb in the section between the splices.

 

Sadly not the clearest picture, but you can make out the end of the splices.

I tested it by pulling on both ends with forceps, I could not physically break it.

 

Therefore the weak point will be the mainline to swivel knot, a fish would be carrying at most a 15cm hooklink, the hook itself can also be ejected should a fish be lost. Frank (Levigsp) has explained in the past how a hook can be ejected

 

The shrink tube at the swivel end, is simply to reduce tangles.

[nealjt]

I like it

[nealjt]

Nick, when you first made this rig what was the thinking behind it? My main idea was that with some putty on the swivel end of the rig the contour would help the stiff section lay flat. Do you think this gives an advantage over a standard combi rig?

[salokcinnodrog]

I wanted to fish braid in the weed at Taverham, but just decided to see if I could splice Merlin instead of knotting it. The rig idea just evolved from that. I think the original tubing was silicon tubing over the eye of the hook.

 

The hair was my standard hair attachment anyway, or with whipping thread, as no-one had published the knotless knot back in the early 1990's.