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I've always put the bait on with metal bait screws and they hold ok, crays just whittle the baits down and I've often wound in something that resembles a dry mixer but the bait screw has held - agree with belch, a german rig is good, no hair for the buggers to wrap round everything.
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In reply to Post #12
That's exactly what I use on my syndicate, never had a problem . I use the esp plastic boiles .
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In reply to Post #14
They all have swivels attached I think. And probably no better than wooden balls apart from colour etc, just know they do work, but so do wooden balls. Confidence thing I guess. And yeah not cheap but should last!
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In reply to Post #11
These are epoxy, are they any better than wooden balls?
£26 for 6 delivered 
And how do you attach the ones without bait screws already in them?
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In reply to Post #12
That's about right 
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Just back fro France myself and the crays in the lake i fished were huge and numerous. Nothing held up other than plastics on metal bait screws and Crayproofbaits dumbells and fake tigers.
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In reply to Post #9
Def use a stiff D rig / German and screw the bait on - the less components the better IMO and soft braided hairs will more likely get picked / tangled up on inspection. Also have you considered taking a block of paste and a selection of these - Liquirigs
Might save a load of agg?
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Cheers lads, some good advice
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For a simple hair rig I cut off a piece of shrink wrap (Korda) about 6mm wide thread the hair through one of the holes then the boilie/bait add the stopper pull over the heat shrink and heat down covering the hair stop 👍
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In reply to Post #5
If I’m right it should be from when he caught the croc as there’s lots of crays in that lake he mentioned them a lot.
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I can't find it right now but a while back, Scott Lloyd shared a way of attaching baits using doubled over bristle filament in place of floss when using a micro-ring swivel. Someone may be able to dig it out but seemed more resilient to crays. Think it was being used in conjunction with plastic baits too
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In reply to Post #1
Rig dependant, I'd use either a bait screw to attach a bait or those long v shaped stops if you're using a hair. Whatever, you need to wrap baits in either Fox Armamesh or tights or both if they're really bad. They do like a bit of plastic though, so leaders are better than rig tubing. I've had plastic baits all chewed up with them.
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In reply to Post #1
What about using hardened hook baits but either tights or fox’s arma mesh or the Nash version of it
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