Alternative hair rig set up

Manosteel · Sep 5, 2015

I'm going to experiment with a new way to make a hair rig.

I watched a video not long ago from Europe from an old man with a different twist on tying up hair rigs.

Instead of running your leader and loop through and making a "knotless knot"...this guy uses short pieces of braided line that he wraps on the hook like he was tying a fly.

I have fly tying tools that I have not used in...mmm...17 years?

Well...I have started to tie some up...man have I lost my fly tying touch! They lookin' pretty rough! But they are functional...and in the long run, that is all that matters.

I'm using gold kevlar as the wrap to hold the hair on the hook and instead of head cement...I'm using super glue (it's what I had!)

I'm actually kinda excited to try this.

This allows me to use whatever leader material I want and whatever pound test I want as the hair is now a separate entity...If I want to tie braid right to the hook eye...I can...or flurocarbon or mono.

I saw this video the other day and thought..."why didn't I ever think of that?...I have all the stuff and completely never even thought of it.

I am hoping to get out this holiday weekend and give them a shot. I'll let you know how they do.

Manosteel · Sep 5, 2015

Here is a pic of what I have accomplished so far...it seems the more I make, the better I get, but I got a loooong way to go to get back to the clean lines of tying flies.

It's kind of addictive though...the more of them I tie, the better they look and the more I want to tie!

I am tying them on all kinds of hooks...from #1 to #10...I figure I'll find a use for them somewhere.

I love hair rigs...they almost never get a gut hook...this allows me to make them so I can use them with just about anything

whiskeryaker · Sep 6, 2015

Great idea man,
Are some of the longer hairs in the pic. Because you will have two boilies on a hair or multiple stacks of baits?
Haha, when I bought my fly tying gear for making foam poppers I thought it was going to to be so easy, after all the videos make it look easy breezy. Ha. I created some real Frankenstein looking poppers that first day. Good luck with your new hairs!

Manosteel · Sep 6, 2015

Yeah the longer hairs are for doubling up boilies.

Manosteel · Sep 7, 2015

Went out this morning...didn't even get a bite.

I had fun though...the place was inundated with ducks... mean...there was like 40 of them there. I passed the time giving them bread and canned corn...I had wild ducks eating from my hand by the end of the session....fish or no fish, I had fun today.

whiskeryaker · Sep 22, 2015

I took anouther look at your picture and was wondering if a few of those hooks were drop shot hooks? The only reason I ask is because when I first started using a hair rig I could not find a tradition hump back carp hook anywhere local and did not want to wait for some to come in the mail. So I thought drop shot hooks would work. I never caught a carp with them because a carp never hit in the sessions but it did work when channels were taking my boilies. Hooked in the corner of the mouth every time.

Manosteel · Sep 22, 2015

I tie them up on just about every kind of hook you can imagine. Trial and error. I use a lot of small octopus hook and just plain old eagle claw bronze hooks. I even tied up some long shank gold hooks to use on smaller species and such.

I am firmly convinced the gold flash of the hook triggers a lot of panfish and smaller fish to bite so maybe putting the "bait" on the hair will help reduce the gut hooks...it's a test. Might work...might not...

whiskeryaker · Sep 22, 2015

I never thought about the hook color coming into play. That's very thoughtful insight.
thanks

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