Hair rigs, techo style

[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.

[stoogi]

It's good to see something different, but for me personally, there are far more con's than pro's with that set up.