Cheap and effective bait clips

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Jon Moloney · #1 Post by **Jon Moloney** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:27 pm

Take some electrical cable (you can buy some in woodies and the like).
this cabled is the kind used in wiring houses, generally comes in a grey sleeve with 2 cores surrounded by blue and brown sleeves with an uncovered core in the middle. Some sparks out there will no doubt know the name of it straight away.

Anyway once you have taken the grey sleeve off and have the smaller cables, cut a lenght say 1 foot. Pull the copper out. Now you effectivley have a clip and a sleeve.

cut small sections of the copper, say 2inches approx. Cut small lengths of the sleeve, say 1-1.25 inches. take the copper bend the last 10 mm with the nose of a pliers. This will give the clip part. thread through your rig line and then insert the copper piece. Once satisfied with the fit and position of the clip give the other end of the clip a small turn to prevent the clip coming out of the sleeve.

In about 20 minutes i made 100 of these things.

glengormley-gavin · Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:48 pm

Great idea Jon :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea:

I want to make some 1-up 1-down rigs - I could use this wee jobby quite easily.

Thanks,

JUDE

#3 Post by **BigPhil** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:43 am

another great one i find is to use small rotter clips, they are just basically a small half loop with an eye, thread the rig body through the eye, then twist the rig body around the half loop on the clip once, this locks it in place, and the beauty of it is that if u have to replace a hook, you can move the bait clip to to suit the new length of snood.

#4 Post by Al » Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:54 am

There both great ideas :D well done!!!

glengormley-gavin · Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:22 am

BigPhil wrote:another great one i find is to use small rotter clips, they are just basically a small half loop with an eye, thread the rig body through the eye, then twist the rig body around the half loop on the clip once, this locks it in place, and the beauty of it is that if u have to replace a hook, you can move the bait clip to to suit the new length of snood.

Phil - I take it you mean rotten bottom clips (Mustad type)?

Jude

#6 Post by **BigPhil** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:42 pm

i think thats the ones alright jude...

x · #7 Post by x » Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:34 pm

If you are asking for the cable in a shop, it's either 1.5mm or 2.5 mm square "twin and earth". Any spark should be able to give you loads of offcuts if you ask nicely.

#8 Post by Al » Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:58 am

Excellent I'll be able to get some off my mates who are sparks without sounding stupid "Have ya got any off that wire...you know the one with the eh..wire in it :? ? :)

#9 Post by **shockleader50** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:53 pm

Yeah john.
I have been using twin and earth for years now.Costs nothing.
1.5mm is perfect.Once you strip the sleeving off,discard the two heavier cables and just use the thinner earth cable.Beauty is,they can easily be repositioned up or down easily.I think i got this tip from Sea Angler magazine about twenty years ago.

Jon Moloney · #10 Post by **Jon Moloney** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:46 pm

didn't know it was in SA. wouldn't have had enough pocket money to buy SA 20 years ago :D I could'nt imagine them having it the mag now, what with all the ads and fluff thats in it. A decent money saving tip is probably not in their interest.

cheers
Jon

#11 Post by **donal domeney** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:58 pm

Close to the same subject of rig building on the cheap. I use telephone cable, twisted around the line behind a bead as a bait stop
If you use soft tube for rig building then find a gas boiler service engineer.
Out there at the moment is a Potterton Suprima boiler where the circut boards are crap. When changing them the wiring harness has to be changed also the result is about 15' in assorted colours of cable just slide out the wire and you have enough tube to keep you going for a year or two.

Cannylad · #12 Post by **Cannylad** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:20 pm

heres a tip, those scooby string things all the bairns were making things out of a few months back, its hollow tubing. Slip your line through, then through again the same way, and pull hard, the tubing twists. Instant bait stop.

#13 Post by **BigPhil** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:32 pm

good for stand off booms just threaded up the snood over the eye of swivel too....

#14 Post by **Drew** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:51 pm

Found some spring in work, Exactly the Same Diameter as S.R.Ts 8)

#15 Post by **petekd** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:01 pm

In Centra????? What on earth were you dismantling??

#16 Post by **nige** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:40 pm

petekd wrote:In Centra????? What on earth were you dismantling??

Pete do you really want to know? Come on its Drew-more than likely broke something rather than dismantling it :lol:

#17 Post by **Marty Harrison** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:11 pm

nige wrote:
petekd wrote:In Centra????? What on earth were you dismantling??

Pete do you really want to know? Come on its Drew-more than likely broke something rather than dismantling it :lol:

Quality and yes id say your right Nige.