Rigs/Traces/Tangles

[Robbie_B]

Wow, no expense spared on the gizmos!

Some are pre ordered and the ones without the gizmos are my made myself, wanted to try a few floating beads to try avoid the crabs

 

[Mushty]

I went half and half in the end, well a full box of winders and a couple of wallets, so many tangles when you have a 13yr old using your rigs too, it gets harder, he thinks they untangle themselves
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Looks like a bead fest

 

[Robbie_B]

Nearly all the beads are either side of a snood swivel

 

[Angrybear]

Dont wind rigs around your hand, your putting a twist into the trace with every coil. Instead try to feed the trace body into the wallet compartment,
bottom or weight clip end first, the trace will make a figure of eight shape, once you get to the snood feed those in but keep the hooks out and hang/secure them on the zip. That way the hooks never tangle and you can remove the trace as God intended

Im away fishing tomorrow so i will take a few photos because it can be hard to explain the above
Rigs winders are the same, spin or turn the rig winder to feed the trace on, dont wrap the trace around the winder.

And any of you lot say different? your telling fibs lol.



Fed...

They only twist for people too daft to let them un-twist as they coil the rig otherwise it's no different to the line being wound on to a spool hence the first line of post #7 says "loosely wrap"
When you cut the length of line off the spool, it naturally forms loose coils on the table/floor, those are the same coils it forms around your hand

 

[Robbie_B]

Beads, where and when?

 

[J Richards]

I use winders for everything, so handy and small, never get tangles

 

[Angrybear]

Beads, where and when?

Well I use 2-4mm (usually black) beads as stops to secure swivels etc,
5mm rubber buffer beads as lead/pully stops,
4mm or 8mm coloured beads as attractors above the hook, depending on hook size,
Plus specialist luminous/floating/rattle beads in various shapes & sizes.

 

[Robbie_B]

Well I use 2-4mm (usually black) beads as stops to secure swivels etc,
5mm rubber buffer beads as lead/pully stops,
4mm or 8mm coloured beads as attractors above the hook, depending on hook size,
Plus specialist luminous/floating/rattle beads in various shapes & sizes.

I haven't used any as attractors yet, still getting to grips with making my own rigs but have been using 3mm beads as stops on either side of the swivel, like you, bigger beads for pulley rigs. I did order some clip down rigs as I had no idea how to make those, ordered them with some floating beads to see if it would work

 

[Wolf]

I haven't used any as attractors yet, still getting to grips with making my own rigs but have been using 3mm beads as stops on either side of the swivel, like you, bigger beads for pulley rigs. I did order some clip down rigs as I had no idea how to make those, ordered them with some floating beads to see if it would work

I learnt how to tie my own rigs, by buying rigs & then copying them, after I learnt how to tie a few knots & adding extra beads etc & I've been tying my own rigs for 40 + years