VARY YOUR APPROACH, RIG 3 - by Dan Chart
Well, I hope you all had fantastic results using last months Double Bottom Bait recommendation. Hopefully you can add this beauty to your armoury when an alternative approach is required:
Rig 3 - The Claw
When the bites simmer off, or for stalking in the edges when the fish are much cagier picking up your bait, give this a try. It is a bit fiddly but can be the difference between a blank and a result. Take a Gardner Talon Tip size 6 and thread one float stop or hook bead to the bottom of the hook around the hook eye. Then put a Gardner size 14 micro swivel on the hook and put another stop on the hook bend as shown below. Then take a hard hooker 16mm boilie and bore three quarters of the boilie out with a nut drill.
Using a cork plug bore a fine hole in the centre long section so that the micro swivel fits tightly with just the eye showing. Now, before putting the swivel in to the cork you need to pass a length of dental floss through the eye of the swivel and pull it back through the cork and boilie taking care not to crack the bait. Finally tie the two sections of dental floss around a boilie stop and melt with a lighter to prevent it coming loose. Thread a section of shrink tube of no more than an inch and a quarter and heat to the curved effect.
The cork in the hook bait means the bait will travel much further to the back of the fish’s mouth. A boilie attached to a conventional ring has limited movement if the fish blows it back out whereas it attached to the ring swivel gives it total movement and the hook stays at the bottom of the fish’s mouth from the claw effect.
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