trace winders

[BigPhil]

does anyone use the trace winder discs for their light line / long rigs for the shore? i have started using them myself and i have to say they are dead handy, just have to try to track down a few lengths of clear tubig to hold them all in now, they can end up everywhere in your tackle box otherwise!

[Kev Lewis]

BigPhil, I ought to reply, just posted a request so payment in kind. The great and the good on the S. England match circuit use 22mm dense foam pipe lagging (OS dia 80mm), cut into sections to fit the Stanley Tools 25-compartment organiser, part no. 14005. This all fits neatly on top of seat-boxes with bungy straps. This gets me about 60 rigs into each box (with clear locking lid). The difficulty with the purpose-made winders (Grauvell, etc) is they blow away just as easily but cost a fortune to keep replacing, and with tubes, the rig you want is always in the middle. Kev

[Adam S]

hi

i use a badger rig bin. i got them for pike fishing but they work great for sea fishing. you can fit about 20 -30 rigs onto each bin and they fit nicely into the pocket of my rucksack (i can fit two in one pocket) , there is a screw on cover for the bin so they are kept safe and seperate.

because they have foam they are hady to stick used feather traces onto too.

[BigPhil]

adam, rig bin would be handy alright, i must check the coarse shops to see what i cant turn up

kev, thanks, i have seen the system you speak of it action, just never got a close enough look!, i must go and get down to buying the bits and bobs required!

thanks for both replys, it will be handy for boat angling too

[Adam S]

no probs.

try here maybe

http://www.badgerinternational.co.uk/te ... _bin.shtml

[Drew]

Been getting Rig Winders in McKees for the past wee While... They're the Mutz Nutz when it comes to long Beach traces.... 8)

[m.b3]

does anyone use the trace winder discs for their light line / long rigs for the shore? i have started using them myself and i have to say they are dead handy, just have to try to track down a few lengths of clear tubig to hold them all in now, they can end up everywhere in your tackle box otherwise!

yeah Phil they do they job. need a way to store'em though. have them all in a bloody plastic bag at the mo! there are some good deep trays in the hardware store that'll take the blue ones nicely. might be what Kev mentioned?? fits on tackle box, handy if you have a 'sherpa'.

[Kev Lewis]

Money where mouth is. Hope pix transmit OK. Responses to a number of threads in one go, so apologies for long text.

At the back is my beach seat box, shi...shedload of rigs in ordinary bags within. Super-long traces, up to 18 foot long (no, they don't cast well and you need plenty of space behind you) for scratching in comps, in toolbox on top. Adapt the tripod to a three or four foot long top crossbar, make many rig-hangers, run baited rigs outward sideways or use second tripod for rig-hanging alone. You'll need bait at waist-height, I use window troughs (for flowers, from garden centre) on the tripod.

At front is the boat kit, leads etc in the slide-out drawers and drop-down bit holding 60 rigs a side. Handy when under pressure in comps, we only choose the rig we can see. Dense foam is 22mm pipe lagging, measure when buying because they vary on supplier - these are 80mm outside dia. Both boxes are from Stanley Tools, buy your box first so you know the max dia. incl. space for rig itself, 10mm space is generally OK.
You should be buying the single box for Eu14, the double for Eu20, and ten metres of foam ( lifetimes supply because they blow away or you just drop them under pressure) will fill both boxes twice for Eu7. If you need colour, seaside towns sell two metre long red, blue and yellow children's foam cylinders, sort of gentle light-sabre floaty thingies. Kids, eh? We had real swords at that age.
Picked up all this from the continentals, esp the Italians and their influence on the GB World Shore & Boat Squads. The individual rig shows size 14 (yes) hook rigs - in answer to another thread, put a fine bait needle through the heads of several 'harbour' (3" long) fine reddish ragworm and slide them up the snood, headhooked to make a cluster. No, I don't know why fish always start eating at the head but if they didn't, we'd never catch anything.
None of this makes me a better angler, just well-informed about why I came second! Will be fishing Galway Bay next week, give us a wave. MadKev.

[Kev Lewis]

My error, I.T. literacy issue.

Ah, need to be under 256mb, half a mo ....... sorted but a little lossy.

[m.b3]

Kev do you not have trouble with hooks rusting on the wound rigs? when you just need one you need to take out a few at a time??

[Kev Lewis]

Yes, see your point but in two years, no rust issues. I tend to whip out what spool I need, slam the lid shut, peel off the rig needed and pop the spool back in. Ain't much time when hammering it.
That said, none of the rigs have been in there two years, they've all been used. b Also, if the boat is 'slamming' en route, perhaps I've kept it all sheltered unconsciously? Dunnno. On the beach, always more time, little more refined, beach shelter makes a difference.
For your comsideration: steal the best bits, ignore the dross, tell me yours in two years time eh? Thus , we progress. None of what I've mentioned is 'cuttng edge' stuff.

[m.b3]

i see. have all my winders in pollygrip bags. thoughts of havin to change hooks on dozens of rigs was a scary thought!

[BigPhil]

thanks guys, excellent info there kev

[lumpy]

seen these on another web site. thinking of getting a few for holding my longer traces.

http://www.fishingwarehouseshop.co.uk/p ... cts_id/959