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Improve your skills with coarsefish
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Tying A Hair Rig
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Cut
a 12" length of braid, or your chosen line. (Amnesia has been
used here for the purpose of demonstration)
Form a loose loop at the end.
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Fold the line over on itself to create 2
separate loops
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Push the smaller loop through the larger loop.
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Pull tight into an overhand knot |
Slip
your hook onto the other end of the line.
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Using a baiting needle, put a boilie
( or bait of your choice) onto the line at the end where the loop
is. Leave a bit of the loop showing through the other side of the
boilie.
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You
should now have something looking like this. Slip the boilie stop
through the loop, and gently pull the boilie towards the stop until it
is firm, but not tight, against it.
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Move the hook up the line until it just touches the top of the boilie.
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Whip the line around the shank of the hook at
least eight times, keeping everything nice and tight.
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Bring the
end of the line round, and feed it through the eye of the hook. Pull
everything nice and tight. |
Next, take a piece of heat shrink tubing.
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Take one of Aunty Ida's darning needles, and
pierce the wall of the tubing from the inside as shown.
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Feed the line
through the eye of the needle, and slide the tubing up the line
and over the eye of the hook, and down to the bend.
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Heat over a boiling kettle to shrink the tube onto
the hook making a snug fit.
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Make all
your rigs up before you go fishing, and remember, practice is the key.
The rigs aren't hard to do, but they may take a couple of goes to get it
right.
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