Bait screws or hair j

[Adam Wylie]

Hair rig or Bait screws ?
Do bait screws attach to large pellets ?

 

[Richard Isaacs]

Depends on what your doing. They’ll both have a similar effect.
you’ll still need to pilot drill a hard pellet with either method.

 

[Graham Elliott]

Unless you buy pre drilled.

You can also still band them. Buy different width strips of latex on ebay

 

[Stephen Crowhurst]

Drilled pellet on the hair and superglue or crack the pellet and glue back to back.

 

[Robert West]

Unless you buy pre drilled.

You can also still band them. Buy different width strips of latex on ebay

Defo buy pre drilled saves time once had to drill a whole bag for hair rigging

 

[Ben Marr]

I have some screws for meat, they work very well.

 

[Nick Hodgkinson]

hairs all the time for me with boilies/pellets

i have easily drilled pellets as small as 6mm up to 25mm plus

just buy a set of micro drill bits off eBay and then use a Dremel tool

job sorted in a few minutes

for meat - a hair loop and a piece of dry spaghetti as the hair stop

I have some screws for meat, they work very well.

 

[Neil Smart]

hairs all the time for me with boilies/pellets

i have easily drilled pellets as small as 6mm up to 25mm plus

just buy a set of micro drill bits off eBay and then use a Dremel tool

job sorted in a few minutes

for meat - a hair loop and a piece of dry spaghetti as the hair stop

All very well Nick, but what spaghetti?

 

[Nick Hodgkinson]

All very well Nick, but what spaghetti?

well, i actually like the black version made with squid ink, lol

but a piece of grass works just as well

 

[Neil Smart]

I think spaghetti works fine for hair rig meat, and hair rigs for pellets, using the Fox v stops. Or use a shuttered bait needle to push through meat via bend on hook. To secure large meats in flood I thread the hook length through the meat, securing spaghetti on bend of hook.
This lecture was not meant for you Nick, sure you know anyway.

 

[Nick Hodgkinson]

I think spaghetti works fine for hair rig meat, and hair rigs for pellets, using the Fox v stops. Or use a shuttered bait needle to push through meat via bend on hook. To secure large meats in flood I thread the hook length through the meat, securing spaghetti on bend of hook.
This lecture was not meant for you Nick, sure you know anyway.

i remember some years ago seeing a You Tube video by a well known barbel angler using a bent paperclip as a stop?

 

[Mark Pevy]

i remember some years ago seeing a You Tube video by a well known barbel angler using a bent paperclip as a stop?

I have been using the spring out of cheap retractable biros, cut spring in half then bend circular end up 90 degrees, which you tie to your hair,two out of one spring and once screwed into the meat it is really solid

 

[Nick Hodgkinson]

I have been using the spring out of cheap retractable biros, cut spring in half then bend circular end up 90 degrees, which you tie to your hair,two out of one spring and once screwed into the meat it is really solid

thanks Mark - great idea

like an oversized bait screw

 

[Gerry Giles]

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and for drilled pellets I pull a bait band thru this helps to slow the breakdown as it seals the hole

 

[Jon Young]

Defo buy pre drilled saves time once had to drill a whole bag for hair rigging

I once give up on a bag that weren’t pre drilled and went and brought a bag of pre drilled. Just used the first bag as freebies

 

[Terry Harman]

use bait screws when using the german rig straight off the shank of the hook great rig in clear water conceals the hook

 

[Richard Parsons]

Bait screws are primarily used for meat, because it's soft and penetrable. I use glue for pellets.

 

[Chris Belcher]

Don't trust bait screws . . .for river fishing hair rigs all day long. For meat I use a custom punch and then wrap the meat in fox arma mesh . . .nuisance fish resistant, NEVER comes off and you can re-use hookbaits if you glug them . . .

 

[Richard Parsons]

They work ok for me, Chris, so sticking with them - thanks for the tip, however.

 

[Ray Heath]

i use bait screws for boilies makes it so easy to bait up in the dark either on a hair or on hook itself