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Being a very lazy angler these days I tied link swivels last time to the end of my line so I could change the hook without having to snip one off and retie a new one when a change was required. This applies to sea fishing really but it could be relevant in coarse maybe. I am using a telescopic carp rod and around 12lb line at present, the nice thing - its all set up anytime I go fishing, it comes out of the bag and all I have to do is apply hooks, bait or lure accordingly very easily..
I was float fishing and had two swivels on, one on the end and one on a loop about 18 inches above this. I could change the lure on the end easily or fish two in tandem. Or put hooks on both swivels and fish bread for mullet under the float. Saved a lot of fluffing about. They are very small link swivels about half inch and silver. Worrying things were how strong are they if I latched onto a big fish, putting bait on apart from bread like lug-worms and would fish be put off by some of the link showing, not so much sea fishing was my thought but coarse fishing! As it was unless I put a very large piece of bread on some of the link swivel was showing and putting lug-worm on how would I thread them up pass the swivel, yet to experiment with that.
This got me thinking of ways of attaching hooks to line in general, is there a better way? My line of thought took me to a piece of wire tied to the end of the line with no swivel so you could just thread it through a hook or lure and wrap it a few times around the shank or back on itself. When you need to change it just unwrap it. No need for knots every-time. As far as I got really but just wondered if there was any merit in it. Might try and fish out some bits of wire from my bits and pieces box and see if it can be done.
One thought with this is-no swivel just wire - a piece could be left sticking out so when you thread a lug-worm on its held in place whereas threading over a swivel might not be practical.
I was float fishing and had two swivels on, one on the end and one on a loop about 18 inches above this. I could change the lure on the end easily or fish two in tandem. Or put hooks on both swivels and fish bread for mullet under the float. Saved a lot of fluffing about. They are very small link swivels about half inch and silver. Worrying things were how strong are they if I latched onto a big fish, putting bait on apart from bread like lug-worms and would fish be put off by some of the link showing, not so much sea fishing was my thought but coarse fishing! As it was unless I put a very large piece of bread on some of the link swivel was showing and putting lug-worm on how would I thread them up pass the swivel, yet to experiment with that.
This got me thinking of ways of attaching hooks to line in general, is there a better way? My line of thought took me to a piece of wire tied to the end of the line with no swivel so you could just thread it through a hook or lure and wrap it a few times around the shank or back on itself. When you need to change it just unwrap it. No need for knots every-time. As far as I got really but just wondered if there was any merit in it. Might try and fish out some bits of wire from my bits and pieces box and see if it can be done.
One thought with this is-no swivel just wire - a piece could be left sticking out so when you thread a lug-worm on its held in place whereas threading over a swivel might not be practical.
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