With the junior SA champs in Bloemhof I found the

[Enigma]

With the junior SA champs in Bloemhof I found the kids struggling with changing 30-50 traces a day with wet hands for 8 days in a row.

They ended up with broken nails, broken snaps, casting with open snaps thereby losing fish and traces.

I found a sample of these links in a mates tackle box and set about making for the juniors attending the National trials and since then we have fished them non stop with them being used in 3 of the divisions of the Ladies SA's and 3 of the Seniors Divisions and all of our team used them with great success.

The principle is that it is a closed clip that you hook the trace into by following the coil with the trace loop.

Requirements.

172lbs AFW Piano wire
Round Nose Pliers
Longnose pliers
#12 or #14 swivels

It has to be 172lbs, any of the thinner wires don't have the right amount of spring to keep closed in the speed hooking in of traces.

 

[Enigma]

Step #1

Thread a few swivels onto the straight wire (keep the whole coil to work with)Bend a round single coil with the round nose pliers. Do not make the coil to small or you will struggle to hook a loop or swivel in. The coil must be around 3-4mm in diameter

 

[Enigma]

#2

Ben the coil 90 degrees to the wire

 

[Enigma]

#3

8mm down the wire clamp the coil in and fold the main coil around the tip of the pliers to hook into the coil. (Here the clip has been taken out of the pliers to indicate the bend (you would continue till it is in the coil))

 

[Enigma]

#3.1

You would form it to here

 

[Enigma]

The clip part will look like this now

 

[Enigma]

#4

5mm above the clip part form a small 2mm loop

 

[Enigma]

#5

Slip the swivel up the wire into the open loop

 

[Enigma]

#6

Hold the loop flat in the pliers and close off with 1-2 turn barrel wrap

 

[Enigma]

#7

Fold the tag end over to a 90 degree angle to the loop and then pull the tag end again at 90 degrees and it will snap clean of (no end to hook on and no cutting needed)

Repeat the process.

 

[Enigma]

#7

Fold the tag end over to a 90 degree angle to the loop and then pull the tag end again at 90 degrees and it will snap clean of (no end to hook on and no cutting needed)

Repeat the process.

 

[Dr halibut hoffman]

Cheers bud, I use those for spinning or similar to..could you use stainless wire?

 

[Enigma]

Hi

Yes but then build the coild bigger and make it at least 1cm-1,2cm from the bend to the coil.

I would also look to use 200lbs or TiG wire

 

[Dr halibut hoffman]

Would 1.2mm stainless work, its what I have? I'll try in the new day anyway and get back..How strong do you reckon those are? Thanks..

 

[gofish!]

Not sure if these are available in SA. It,'s known as a genie clip here. Makes swopping out baited snoods, sinkers even changing entire rigs easy as!

 

[Dr halibut hoffman]

Nice one, that looks simple enough!

 

[speartackle]

The marine grade S/steel electrified fencing wire also works well for this. Also not too hard to come by.

 

[Dr halibut hoffman]

Worked like a charm! Tried 1.2mm and 1.6 mm electrical fencing wire..thanks a lot! This was very helpful.

 

[Dr halibut hoffman]

The 1.2mm wire clips did not stand up to destruction testing so will try get some TiG wire when I get a chance. The main bend slid closed but didn't open you just wouldn't be able to use it again. I don't trust it though and will get different wire. I was a bit limited on 1.6mm but the clip I made from it is much stronger. Will also look for 200lb piano wire.

Thanks again Enigma!