Any users of them care to comment on them, looking at them for my bottom bait set up , cheers
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Not used the ready tied ones but did my own using boom and armakord word well with a wafter
Not used the ready tied ones but did my own using boom and armakord word well with a wafter
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Gemini hook lengths,booms and leaders are really good,I do pin the leaders down my wall with a lead attached and leave it on there for a few months to straighten out especially with lockdown and not going anywhere really due to cold weather too,they are just about ready now.
Have the hook lengths as well yet to try them mainly bought them for canal work in the edges.
Gemini hook lengths,booms and leaders are really good,I do pin the leaders down my wall with a lead attached and leave it on there for a few months to straighten out especially with lockdown and not going anywhere really due to cold weather too,they are just about ready now.
Have the hook lengths as well yet to try them mainly bought them for canal work in the edges.
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You could probably steam them straight on the bank.
You could probably steam them straight on the bank.
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. . .these are so easy to tie yourself - Terry Hearn first showed me this rig nearly 20yrs ago at Sandown. I remember the components to this day such was the awe of the man! It was his preferred bottom bait rig at the time - his tackle box was a complete mess . . .!!!
ESP Big T Hook
8lb Drennan Specialist Microbraid
Large rig ring
20lb Sunset Amnesia
You could replace all of these for more 'current' components - don't think crimping the boom is necessary and if using stiff fluros a simple two turn blood knot at the rig ring end is all that's required.
One of the key elements is using a thin diameter braid - the lower breaking strains are sufficient as they are doubled up anyway. Just make sure that the hook eye has sufficient diameter to ensure when you tie the braided loop section it can go back through the eye with the knotless knot. . (this can sometimes be fiddly)
Easiest way is to lay the hook on a flat surface, wet the braid and thread it back through the eye with the hook in this 'resting' position . . don't know why but it always works this way . . .
Weirdly (or not) I still use this combi rig for barbel fishing . . .much easier to pre-tie a variety of braided end sections with various hook sizes / hair lengths than storing 2-5 foot boom sections . . .
. . .these are so easy to tie yourself - Terry Hearn first showed me this rig nearly 20yrs ago at Sandown. I remember the components to this day such was the awe of the man! It was his preferred bottom bait rig at the time - his tackle box was a complete mess . . .!!!
ESP Big T Hook
8lb Drennan Specialist Microbraid
Large rig ring
20lb Sunset Amnesia
You could replace all of these for more 'current' components - don't think crimping the boom is necessary and if using stiff fluros a simple two turn blood knot at the rig ring end is all that's required.
One of the key elements is using a thin diameter braid - the lower breaking strains are sufficient as they are doubled up anyway. Just make sure that the hook eye has sufficient diameter to ensure when you tie the braided loop section it can go back through the eye with the knotless knot. . (this can sometimes be fiddly)
Easiest way is to lay the hook on a flat surface, wet the braid and thread it back through the eye with the hook in this 'resting' position . . don't know why but it always works this way . . .
Weirdly (or not) I still use this combi rig for barbel fishing . . .much easier to pre-tie a variety of braided end sections with various hook sizes / hair lengths than storing 2-5 foot boom sections . . .
Always worried pulling un-coated braid against the boom section would cut through it.