eyeFISH
05-18-2004, 07:10 PM
OK folks, I'm in a tech tip kind of mood, so here's one more:
Any one who fishes herring on a double hook rig knows that when you pass the trailing hook thru the bait, the piece of stubble sticking out the back end of the snell knot catches a little extra meat, creating a bigger hole in the side of your herring and knocking off a few more scales in the process.
Here's a modified way to snell an octopus style hook that leaves no unwanted stubble exposed:
I will assume you know how to tie a standard snell. The pictures are backward for a right-hander. I put the hook on my scanner as I would hold it in my own hands (I'm right-handed), which makes a mirror image for you the viewer. I did make my coils in reverse direction so as to show the view you would see when tying it yourself. I used hi-vis dacron for the demo only because it scans better than mono... use Maxima Ultragreen for the real thing.
1) Lay your line alongside the hook shank like you would tie a standard non-bumper snell:
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/5148snell1.JPG
2) Start wrapping the end of the line that you normally would not wind around the shank... your coils will be running bend-to-eye, just the reverse of what you are used to doing.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/5148snell2.JPG
3) Pull on the end sticking out toward the bend of the hook to tighten the snell. Notice the long end of the leader sticks out the back. The short end sticks out of the eye of the hook.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/5148snell3.JPG
4) Now here's the secret part... cut the short end flush with the eye of the hook. This is where the stubble gets buried... in the hook eye. Now just form another big loop by passing an inch or two of the long end thru the eye back-to-front, laying your line against the hook shank as shown:
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/5148snell4.JPG
5) Wind the line around the shank 6 times:
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/5148snell5.JPG
6) Pull the line all the way thru the eye. VOILA! Stubble-free snell!:
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/5148snell6.JPG
Tie your leading hook the way you usually do (standard snell or bumper snell or slider, depending on preference), and you're ready to fish!
Any one who fishes herring on a double hook rig knows that when you pass the trailing hook thru the bait, the piece of stubble sticking out the back end of the snell knot catches a little extra meat, creating a bigger hole in the side of your herring and knocking off a few more scales in the process.
Here's a modified way to snell an octopus style hook that leaves no unwanted stubble exposed:
I will assume you know how to tie a standard snell. The pictures are backward for a right-hander. I put the hook on my scanner as I would hold it in my own hands (I'm right-handed), which makes a mirror image for you the viewer. I did make my coils in reverse direction so as to show the view you would see when tying it yourself. I used hi-vis dacron for the demo only because it scans better than mono... use Maxima Ultragreen for the real thing.
1) Lay your line alongside the hook shank like you would tie a standard non-bumper snell:
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/5148snell1.JPG
2) Start wrapping the end of the line that you normally would not wind around the shank... your coils will be running bend-to-eye, just the reverse of what you are used to doing.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/5148snell2.JPG
3) Pull on the end sticking out toward the bend of the hook to tighten the snell. Notice the long end of the leader sticks out the back. The short end sticks out of the eye of the hook.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/5148snell3.JPG
4) Now here's the secret part... cut the short end flush with the eye of the hook. This is where the stubble gets buried... in the hook eye. Now just form another big loop by passing an inch or two of the long end thru the eye back-to-front, laying your line against the hook shank as shown:
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/5148snell4.JPG
5) Wind the line around the shank 6 times:
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/5148snell5.JPG
6) Pull the line all the way thru the eye. VOILA! Stubble-free snell!:
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/5148snell6.JPG
Tie your leading hook the way you usually do (standard snell or bumper snell or slider, depending on preference), and you're ready to fish!