fishplate42
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I have been reading some stuff on tying chod rigs for carp fishing and the 'D' loop is made by passing the line through the eye of the hook and preventing it pulling back by forming a blob on the end, by heating it, with a cigarette lighter.
It occurred to me that instead of tying the quick stops on, I use on some of my hair rigs, that a blob on the end of the line would do a better job at holding them on, saving the fiddly job of tying them on. The only trouble is that the line is not thick enough to make a large enough blob not to pull through the stop. By tying a dry knot in the end of the line and trimming the tag end back to about one millimetre from the knot, the blob that results from heating the knot is just the right size.
I can't be the first person to have thought of doing this, has anyone else tried it? I have tied up some lengths using this method and I will try them out on Thursday when I am next out.
Ralph.
It occurred to me that instead of tying the quick stops on, I use on some of my hair rigs, that a blob on the end of the line would do a better job at holding them on, saving the fiddly job of tying them on. The only trouble is that the line is not thick enough to make a large enough blob not to pull through the stop. By tying a dry knot in the end of the line and trimming the tag end back to about one millimetre from the knot, the blob that results from heating the knot is just the right size.
I can't be the first person to have thought of doing this, has anyone else tried it? I have tied up some lengths using this method and I will try them out on Thursday when I am next out.
Ralph.