The Flexible Sliding Hair Rig
The Flexible Sliding Hair Rig

The Flexible Sliding Hair Rig

The original intention of the sliding hair was for it to collapse and slide back up the shank on expulsion from the carp’s mouth.

Most of the time this failed as the rig was constructed from material as soft as the hair itself, or the hair was just an extension of the hooklink.

With this rig the hooklink is made from stiffer fluorocarbon, with a very flexible braid hair, so the first thing to collapse is the hair.

The theory is that the hook will then drop into the carp’s bottom lip.

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About the Rigs Page

The Rigs Page is a library of features to illustrate all those rigs that will be useful to both beginners and experienced anglers.

The rigs can be extremely simple and well known, or very complicated and little known, it doesn’t matter providing they make some kind of sense and have a really practical application.

It could be a standard running leger rig that a beginner will appreciate seeing in pictures, or a very complicated anti-eject carp rig that the experienced carp angler would like to see.

If you wish to contribute a rig to this section please remember that the emphasis is on illustration rather than words. Good line drawings are fine in the absence of photographs. Please send to graham@fishingmagic.com

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