Top – Bent Hook, Bottom – Replacement rig for bent hook using shrink tube

BENT HOOK SUBSTITUTE RIGS

These rigs can be made to look more like the curved shank by carefully bending the tube after heating – I do it using an empty line spool. My only real worry with it is the amount of ‘blowback’ you can get, and sometimes the shrink tubes bend on the cast, especially with PVA bags.

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