just thought this might be of interest -
sea anglers routinely use quick change hooklengths (which are known as snoods).
they use a snood clip (not surprisingly), which are available from all sea tackle shops and are not huge. you simply tie the hookength to the clip, which then attaches to a swivel (ideally) or at a push to a line loop.
it occurred to me that there is a similar product used in fly fishing that is smaller (less obtrusive), but is used for attaching flies to the hooklength (tippet). they come in 3 sizes, and whilst the smallest might be a bit lightweight, the 'large' (still small) size might be handy for made-up hookengths, when you want to change bait but need a different hook/hair set-up to do it.
I used the sea version on sunday night, and it was a successful trial from my point of view, in that I was able to swap rigs back and forth quickly without compromising a perfectly good tied hooklength by cutting and shortening.
these clips are cheap (couple of quid or less for 10) and reliable - can't see a fish straightening one, I landed a double figure bass on one of these, and the fight was 15 minutes in breaking surf (i'm talking about the sea snood clips).
link for sea snood clip:
https://www.fishingmegastore.com/cgi-bin/sh000005.pl?REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2efishingmegastore%2ecom%2facatalog%2fsearch%2ehtml&WD=clip%20snood&PN=Gemini_Rig_Making_Equipment%2ehtml%23a3105#a3105
link for fly snap hook:
www.fastmailtackle.co.uk/3203.html
hope this is of use.
dan
sea anglers routinely use quick change hooklengths (which are known as snoods).
they use a snood clip (not surprisingly), which are available from all sea tackle shops and are not huge. you simply tie the hookength to the clip, which then attaches to a swivel (ideally) or at a push to a line loop.
it occurred to me that there is a similar product used in fly fishing that is smaller (less obtrusive), but is used for attaching flies to the hooklength (tippet). they come in 3 sizes, and whilst the smallest might be a bit lightweight, the 'large' (still small) size might be handy for made-up hookengths, when you want to change bait but need a different hook/hair set-up to do it.
I used the sea version on sunday night, and it was a successful trial from my point of view, in that I was able to swap rigs back and forth quickly without compromising a perfectly good tied hooklength by cutting and shortening.
these clips are cheap (couple of quid or less for 10) and reliable - can't see a fish straightening one, I landed a double figure bass on one of these, and the fight was 15 minutes in breaking surf (i'm talking about the sea snood clips).
link for sea snood clip:
https://www.fishingmegastore.com/cgi-bin/sh000005.pl?REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2efishingmegastore%2ecom%2facatalog%2fsearch%2ehtml&WD=clip%20snood&PN=Gemini_Rig_Making_Equipment%2ehtml%23a3105#a3105
link for fly snap hook:
www.fastmailtackle.co.uk/3203.html
hope this is of use.
dan
) the tail rubbers (Korda run rig rubbers),but the run beads fit them perfectly to a inch in up the thin end .
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that have smaller eyes as already mentioned but have found in the bottom of a bag a larger version that's ideal, just need to find somewhere that does them now.
