02-02-2004, 08:35 PM
[blue][size 1]Yeah, rigging stingers on a tube is trickier. In the pic, I show some premade stinger rigs...from mono and dacron to wire. BLM and IFG have been playing around with a new design using crimped cable wire.[/size][/blue]
[#0000ff][size 1]If you are comfortable working with wire, you can whip out quite a few in advance of your trip. I attach the hook directly to the wire, but you can just make a loop and add a split ring when you are finished. Next, measure the length of the wire you will want trailing behind the jig hook. It should allow for the stinger to just extend to the ends of the tube skirt. Now bend and wrap another loop...just large enough to fit over the jig hook.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]Make several lengths, if you use different sizes and styles of tubes. Put the tube over the jig head first, then the proper length stinger hook rig. To keep the loop on the wire from slipping back over the jig hook, run the hook through a small piece of plastic worm, or even a small chunk of rubber band.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]It takes some playing around and experimentation to get it just right.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]If you want to go for a single hook stinger, you can use a plain old baitholder bait hook...with the down eye and the little barbs on the back. You can snell it onto mono easily...or make a few turns around the shank with the wire after running it down through the eye. I use this method for making single hook spinners (see attached pic). I always overwrap the wire wraps with some heavy fly tying thread and finish it with chenille or jig paint...a little color doesn't hurt.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]If you need more pics or a diagram, shoot me a PM and I will try to whip something up for ya. And, NO I do not think they are commercially available. That falls into the category of personal creativity and craftmanship.[/size][/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff][size 1]If you are comfortable working with wire, you can whip out quite a few in advance of your trip. I attach the hook directly to the wire, but you can just make a loop and add a split ring when you are finished. Next, measure the length of the wire you will want trailing behind the jig hook. It should allow for the stinger to just extend to the ends of the tube skirt. Now bend and wrap another loop...just large enough to fit over the jig hook.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]Make several lengths, if you use different sizes and styles of tubes. Put the tube over the jig head first, then the proper length stinger hook rig. To keep the loop on the wire from slipping back over the jig hook, run the hook through a small piece of plastic worm, or even a small chunk of rubber band.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]It takes some playing around and experimentation to get it just right.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]If you want to go for a single hook stinger, you can use a plain old baitholder bait hook...with the down eye and the little barbs on the back. You can snell it onto mono easily...or make a few turns around the shank with the wire after running it down through the eye. I use this method for making single hook spinners (see attached pic). I always overwrap the wire wraps with some heavy fly tying thread and finish it with chenille or jig paint...a little color doesn't hurt.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]If you need more pics or a diagram, shoot me a PM and I will try to whip something up for ya. And, NO I do not think they are commercially available. That falls into the category of personal creativity and craftmanship.[/size][/#0000ff]
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