Self hooking pellet waggler I think,when it's fishing the loaded section slides down,leaving the top section with a blunt water resistant flat area to help set the hook...
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So why on Earth is the bottom half of the float needed at all?
If you need the extra weight that’s on the bottom part of the body to cast then why not just increase the size of the top part?
I think this is most probably one of those things that catches more anglers than it does fish. mg:
Keith
Plenty of old angling techniques are, to some extent, bolt rigs, whether we like it or not. All that's happened in the last twenty years or so is that the bolt effect has been deliberately sought and increased by design. Those that are uncomfortable with the idea of a bolt rig (of any kind) are only kidding themselves or they wouldn't actually do any fishing.
Is that last sentence a bit sweeping? I use method feeder now and again, and rig up a twizzled loop affair that leads to self-hooking when I end up doing the kind of thing that can have you tearing your hair out, like catching dace on a feeder. But I generally think there's a bit of extra skill and challenge involved in trying to hit bites by reading the float or tip - in other words, when they can easily be missed. I wouldn't agree that I'm deluded in thinking so, and I find it possible to do most, indeed nearly all, of my fishing without bolt rigs. I'm not particularly decrying them - just maintaining that they are different.
Hmm Maybe. Since we can't actually see, on most occasions, what a fish is doing to cause a noticeable indication, I'm not sure how far we should assume it's "bolting" - whatever that is, as opposed to moving. Or staying still as the rig moves past them.
I thought, as I think seems reasonable, you were referring to set-ups that are designed to get fish to hook themselves against the inertia of the end tackle eg a heavy weight close to the hook - as in the popular method feeder - possibly, having pricked themselves.
Whether fish "bolt" or not, a major change in recent times in fishing has been the development of self-hooking set ups. I'd go so far as to say that's been been an important part of the departure from what they call "old school". If all kinds of rigs can involve a bolt effect, and maybe they can, I can nonetheless say that in the decades before the method etc, I hardly ever reeled in fish that had hooked themselves; this afternoon there will be a lot of anglers out there whose every fish hooked itself and waggled the rod to let them know.
There's probably nothing to argue about here. Perhaps the distinction between "bolt rigs" and "self-hooking rigs" is a an area where misunderstanding can occur.
We've all had this, unless you are fishing gin clear water you're often not going to notice it though, I would go as far as suggesting (tin hat) that we have a hell of lot more self hooks than we will ever realise and many a skilfully caught fish has already hooked itself prior to the bite indication registering regardless of what technique or tackle is used.Personally, I've had fish hook themselves on all sorts of method, even those that involved the tiniest of floats, lightest of legers.
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