Been a busy boy

[Atlantaking]

Well, in preparation for my upcoming trip with PurEvl, Bretabaker, his father and Chip, I'm busy making arrangements, tying rigs, rigging jigs, checking line and what not. Unfortunately, I just could not get any assist cord in time, but I did stumble across this line. It's 200lb dacron planer board line. Not quite the right stuff, but it seems to work ok; the leaders are fairly stiff, but with a bit of flex to it. It seems to be pretty strong (I lifted 40lbs of dumbbells with one and it held just fine) and the loops are easy to splice. I also welded up some solid rings (made of 0.051" SS wire, brazed with silver solder) to loop the hooks to. Take a look. Any feedback, comments, snide remarks, jokes, or raucous laughter would be appreciated


The three on the left are 5/0 Gami Live Bait HD hooks. From hook eye to solid ring it's about 2.5" long. The 5 on the right are 7/0 Eagle Claw L319 (I think ). The cords are spliced to the rings, and then tied with an overhand knot right behind the eye, and the end is whipped with size-D rod building thread, superglued and shrinkwrapped.


Close-up of the solid ring and split ring; I went ahead and rigged it like this so that I can pull one out of my bag, tie it on and then grab a jig.

[rtran]

are those solid rings flat pressed or round?

[Atlantaking]

Round. I formed them out of stainless steel wire and brazed them together.

[mad marlin]

Those solid rings looks pretty good. do you have some to spare?

[mad marlin]

this are some of mine , sugestions

[mad marlin]

however this rigs are my N.-1 , when big fish are bitting

[rtran]

looks good.

[Atlantaking]

Hey, mad marlin, what kind of cord do you have on the big fish hooks? Also, what is "N.-1"

Oh, yeah, a general question: after reading through all 17 pages () of threads in the rigging forum last night, I noticed that Spectra, Dyneema, and Kevlar is most often used for assist hooks. How come Dacron or monofilament is not used more often? It is because of the strength?

[tngbmt]

this is my version. i had the split ring open to show the difference between the 2. the solid ring holds the hooks while the split ring holds the jig.
i had thought that the split ring doesnt need to be of any strength since the jig wont be holding any weight .. so i put a 10lb split ring on the jig. i lost 4 jigs in one night. the solid ring held and i landed the fish .. minus the jigs. i now use 30# split rings.

oh yeah, i need some round solid rings too

[Atlantaking]

I've got the hooks rigged to a solid ring, and a split ring (80lb test) for the jig.

Originally Posted by tngbmt

oh yeah, i need some round solid rings too

Hmm, business opportunity... Heh, at the rate that I make the rings at (like 5/hour), they'd be running like $8 each! LOL