best way to hair rig meat?

[aebitim]

Here's a shot of them taken on my phone - like you, I couldn't find them on images. I bought them from a local tackle shop.



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Not sure about leaving a hook in a fish with one of them attached . . . . I know we all try our best but it does happen
Tin hat etc

 

[chav professor]

T-Hole surgery is a pretty cheap surgical procedure... the main components (all reusable)... £3.95

I didn't think it was that bad considering...

 

[robtherake]

Not sure about leaving a hook in a fish with one of them attached . . . . I know we all try our best but it does happen
Tin hat etc

Never thought of that! Youre right, of course, they look pretty crude in the pic but it's a close-up and they're actually much smaller than that - maybe 6 or 7mm in total.

One thing they are excellent for is easy rebaiting at night - you can do it by feel alone - without lights.

 

[laguna]

Unless your the guy who always catches more than everybody else...
Who here can honestly say; hand on heart, he has never been curious as to why the guy in the next peg catches more using the same bait? (I have more times than I care to admit)

As with all things in this sport; there is no right or wrong way, just different ways and preferred methods of presentation - its all a matter of finding out what works best (everyone's opinion is valid in that regard) example;

Some anglers prefer a sighter, flouro bright stop, yellow piece of corn etc. for the fish to home into. Personally I think a stealthy presentation is best, especially when targeting fish like big carp, barbel and chub that easily spook - the idea of offering a piece of meat (or cheese) without the bait stop showing is definitely worth looking into...

A 'little' more detail please Banana Man?

 

[chav professor]

Will share monday.... one of my mates is exploring the method on his blog next week (LS)

 

[Neil Maidment]

Meat in its various forms has been a big part of my barbel fishing for a long time. Mainly as a change bait but often becomes "the" clincher as far as catches on a tough day/night go.

It's a confidence thing with me and I tend to use different shapes (hate cubes!), torn off pieces and various sizes of punched examples fished on the same hair. I've had big barbel on tiny "bread punches", flattened discs and whopping great plastic tube "punches".

All born from not so scientific experiences many years ago of watching barbel on the Avon and Stour swim up to cubes and bolt away. Eventually the penny dropped and I switched to a pellet shape and caught regularly. Pairing two or more punched bits of differing colour or size and often at odd angles to each other works far too often to be a fluke.

I will be returning to meat very soon as my main confidence bait of last season is currently no longer available - shame on you SonuBaits mg:

 

[chav professor]

Meat in its various forms has been a big part of my barbel fishing for a long time. Mainly as a change bait but often becomes "the" clincher as far as catches on a tough day/night go.

It's a confidence thing with me and I tend to use different shapes (hate cubes!), torn off pieces and various sizes of punched examples fished on the same hair. I've had big barbel on tiny "bread punches", flattened discs and whopping great plastic tube "punches".

All born from not so scientific experiences many years ago of watching barbel on the Avon and Stour swim up to cubes and bolt away. Eventually the penny dropped and I switched to a pellet shape and caught regularly. Pairing two or more punched bits of differing colour or size and often at odd angles to each other works far too often to be a fluke.

I will be returning to meat very soon as my main confidence bait of last season is currently no longer available - shame on you SonuBaits mg:

I always have meat as a back-up.... summer, winter, whatever.... I agree with the cubes....

My meat is typically lobbed into a swim and putting it directly on the hook is adequate. A little tip: if you put two misshapen pieces of meat directly on a large hook, you get a hinging effect that vastly improves hook-ups when Chubbing.

The T-Hole surgery method?

This new method would encourage me to use it for casting further when carping or possibly bigger river barbel fishing - it may come a bit clearer that this is very different to the 'normal hair rigging' of a piece of meat and open up the possibilities of using soft meat in circumstances where it is normally not practical.

Further more, with a bit of 'cosmetic surgery'... it would be easy to loose that cube shape....

 

[blackout]

Here's a shot of them taken on my phone - like you, I couldn't find them on images. I bought them from a local tackle shop.



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Ive used something similer to those cork screws, they seemed to work just a shame they add too much weight to the bait and get nailed to the deck.

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Further more, with a bit of 'cosmetic surgery'... it would be easy to loose that cube shape....

What about big round punch meat instead of a cube shape chav?

 

[Phil Adams]

I've been using a range of tubing for punching different sized baits. From bits of copper water pipe through to large pvc piping. I think that finding the bait size that they want on a particular day is most important.

 

[chefster]

Prsonally if i,m fishing meat/catmeat on the pole i just hook it...If fishing it on the method a quick stop does the trick,what ever happened to the good old blade of grass method ,when i was a kid

 

[Warden]

Probably me that is just having a senior moment but all I see in the first post is a hair rigged piece of meat and no real explanation how it is done anyone care to fill in the details.

 

[waveney_chubber]

Best thing I ever used for putting meat on a hair, apart from the normal method(s), were those Trefor West Double T wire meat hooks. Simply some fuse wire whipped to to hook, then all you did was push the wire through the meat and bend the end of wire up to hold the meat in place. A simple solution to a simple problem, can be done in seconds, and better than faffing around with all these other bits and bobs.

 

[chav professor]

Probably me that is just having a senior moment but all I see in the first post is a hair rigged piece of meat and no real explanation how it is done anyone care to fill in the details.

Hi Warden, no problem.... the actual method is described here: http://www.lagunafp.eu/articles/T-hole_surgery.pdf

 

[tikka]

Probably me that is just having a senior moment but all I see in the first post is a hair rigged piece of meat and no real explanation how it is done anyone care to fill in the details.

I must also be having the same senior moment,:wh coz I can't work it out either, just a photo & no explaination.

 

[Warden]

Cheers ,and i was lucky enough not to post just after someone explained it all.

 

[waveney_chubber]

sorry double post lol

 

[cg74]

sorry double post lol

Where? I can only see one new post and that's the apology quoted above.

 

[chav professor]

Where? I can only see one new post and that's the apology quoted above.

Can't see aforementioned post.....????