A short peice of foam pipe lagging and some used staples.
Get a stapler and press the staples out as if you were stapling paper. Now open one end of the closed staple enough to get your rig terminating device (loop or swivel) into it. The other end open to about 45 degrees.
Make your rig, put the hook into the foam, wind around, put the staple through the rig end and the 45 degree end into the foam.
Self explanatory once you do it. If it aint shout and I'll do a piccie. Store the length of foam into a plastic chinese takeaway tub (eat the grub first). I can get two lengths side by side in one of our chinese tubs.
Cheers Sagalout!
It's a fair point, I've got the larger version it doesn't lend itself to mobile fishing and is a bit bulky. If am not mistaken am sure you could buy the hookboards on their own? I used to use a cornflake box cut up inside sealable bags many years ago.
Sea fishing shops often do small rig wallets. You see them on the front of sea fishing magazines all the time.*
The cardboard with cuts in, I think I’ve seen a similar thing done with a piece of those mats campers/walkers sit on to stop getting piles, you know those square mat thingys? Same stuff as pipe lagging.As for space yea, it’s very limited, I mainly use one of those Cotswold stalking buckets or a Barbour bag, so I don’t really have the space for anything other than the bare essentials. Dam shame those Korum boxes arnt smaller, im sure they would sell rather well.
*probably never again now*
The cardboard with cuts in, I think I’ve seen a similar thing done with a piece of those mats campers/walkers sit on to stop getting piles, you know those square mat thingys? Same stuff as pipe lagging. As for space yea its tight, I mainly use one of those Cotswold stalking buckets or a Barbour bag, so I don’t really have the space for anything other than the bare essentials.
I just prefer making on the bank less room taken up and I can tie to condition and rules
Beep beeeeeep!! You have this way about you cakey! I find it unnerving; you pop up with a mere sentence, which somehow seems to provoke/angle me in to a long and drawn out reply!
The hooklinks are only for my mini method feeder fishing, and usually only 4inches long, on occasion a bit longer; I only use one hooklink material 6lb-5lb fluoro, so there’s never much variation really. When it comes to hook sharpness I’m verging on anal, so I get through a few hooklinks pretty fast. You don’t really have much to play with if you need to change a hook on 4inches of hooklink, so always carry a little arsenal of them ready to change, baited up with fake corn, or maggots. The later was the main problem with the mini rig bin, the baits keep getting caught as you screw the lid on and the hooks rip the foam. Just as it getting dark I can’t be making hair loops, its fiddly enough at home as it is. A bigger rig bin perhaps? Float fishing I never ever use a hooklink always straight through. So there isn’t much chopping and changing on my part, to not warrant doing it at home. :w
A length of pipe lagging and an empty fox mints tub, wind your rig around the tube and place in the tin, job done!
Oh make the lagging 5mm longer than the can, so the plastic lid will keep all in place!
The pipe insulation sounds good in various forms; especially in a tin, I’m a sucker for a nice tin as it happens, when I was younger I used to have golden virginia tobacco tins as tackle boxes, it must stem from that. Mind you its dam shame those Korum boxes arnt smaller, i like the pin bord thingy very much. And there magnetic hook boxes that come with it...
