Hair Rig

My first attempt, and CONSTRUCTIVE criticism ?
Hoping to try it out sometime this week.

what size hook is that? my thoughts would be to wrap around the hook further before bringing it back through the eye and shorten the hair. looks a lot like my first hair rigs!

Overall...VERY GOOD JOB!

I'll try what you just told me and post a pic in a minute.. The hook sz4 eagle claw. I trust these eagle claw hooks, never made me regret them.

looks good. I vary the length of my hair based on the bait. that looks like it was tied for a range cube with a maize topper. Good stuff.

Better?

I plan on using maize so what would a good length be? Bigfishseeker had some maize of his own and it seemed to be the bait of choice for the day.. They didn't care for my sweet corn.

Looks good, that one is good for a few kernels of maize. Looks like that will catch to me.

Cool, thanks. Might go out and try tuesday, weather is looking better. I'll post some pics if I get any.

Thats a good start HIF. The first one can take more kernals and still be used.
As you look more into hair rigs and other ways of rigging for carp it can get pretty sophisticated, but a simple rig like yours should work fine.
You might find that you miss some hookups unless your hooks are extremely sharp.

good job on ur first hair rig, ow get that baby in th water and catch some fishies.

I personally like to keep my hook-links about 3" long

New rig I tied last nite with sweet corn/strawberry boilie

Shorten the hair put the boilie to where it's just under the bend of the hook.

yep a little long.or you could snowman it witha smaller boilie or pop up

other than the hair length you have a winner

Hows this?

looks good

just need to tie several more for different types of hook baits

looks good .. at one time i was catching good with that boilee combo color although they were home made ones . is that really you on your sig ????/

Yea that's me. The boilies are venture baits.

cool . if your ever around w/r let me know '

what hooklink are you using there?

8", I take criticism well. Is that length bad or good?

8" isn't bad, if you're using the method I'd make it about half that length. Usually I'll use anything from 3" to about 10" depending on the bait, or circumstance, I was mostly curious as to what kind of hooklink it is. There's not really a bad length; however I'd experiment with different lengths and materials until you find something.

My bad, its a 80 lb braid I had. Hey that rhymes.

Give it a try.
There are some great carpers that use longer hairs and others that like the boilie or maize about 1/4 in from the bend of the hook.
I would be tempted to try a short one on one rod, a longer one on the other and see what difference it makes.

Im gonna shorten them some and try the "snowman" double boilie on another. So far Ive only caught a few cats and a long run that didnt get hooked.

Okay, I'm 1 step away from catching carp on a hair rig.. Any clever ideas for a stopper? I forgot to buy beads at hobby lobby and does anyone have clever ideas for a stopper made from a house held object? I have 1 item, but rather use something with less profile.

You could cut toothpicks into segments about 1/2 a CM long, that would probably work. I've seen guys use bits of grass also. Big Carp Tackle always includes as a freebie those plastic locking ties that you use to wrap wiring with. These work very well as a stop, you just have to cut them off as needed.

Awesome, thanks man.

use heavy mono or line from a weed whacker .1317 are you using a feeder ? that may attract more carp to your baits

I'm going to throw some oatmeal out there.. Mix it with water and toss some clumps out.. Then use the maize I made..

And the toothpicks work perfectly.

Bread tie, cut and double bent.

bristles off of a broom

lol that question was for the other guy ,cause he mentioned no carp but some cats

Oh, alright hah. My bad.

Im using pva bags with pellets and crushed up a few boilies

Any clever ideas for the baiting needle.. I'm using a piece of wire right now.

Meh, I'm stuck with my wire, I'll post pics tomorrow night!

Before I bought one I made one out of a safety pen

I looked for a safety pin and a paper clip, don't have either of them.. Any other ideas?

Hey guys take a crappie hook and straighten it out. You can use the barb to hold the loop while you pull your bait onto the hair. This is usually eveyones first baiting needle. I was lucky. Zach gave me a needle at our 1st fish-in.

straightened out bass hook

ooops sorry im way late on this one lol

Just make sure you don't stick it in your finger! lol

I actually got a hook in the finger hahah. I had to do something wrong, I lost count of how many runs I had, either the hair was to long or the hook was to big.. I could've caught AT LEAST 10 carp today.. Oh well, you learn from you mistakes huh?

And you learn what you do right. Your bait sounds like it did it's job!

By the way, plain oatmeal attracts carp like crazy! ...

what bait did you have on the hair??

Secret flavored maize, bigfishseeker told me not to tell.

See I told ya that it would work. I just shortened up my name a bit. Try to get some #6 hooks and see if it makes a difference.

Oh haha, just noticed.. I'm going to get a smaller hook and shorten my hair and try this weekend again.

My alarm was screaming like every 5 minutes.

you can use guitar string or pipe cleaners as a stopper

I would not recomment either one, use ties for the labels on fire Extinguishers

I just use the grass over there, I haven't had problems with it so far. Thanks for the advice though.

these adjustments should be made at the swim as needed not a week later . just saying'

jesse ya old dog whats up

should be at the banks at w/r around 1130 or so , you "in" ?nevermind that i know your affter the over 30's hahahaha

kinda miss the W/R action, too bad I am stuck at work or I would join ya

you dont miss the action , you miss the SCENERY !

yeah them toothless crack whores are something hahaha

whiterock jesse has removed himself from this topic lol

stephen clark also has removed himself from this topic

I left all the hooks and braid at home on my desk by accident.

Alright shortened my hair significantly and using a sz 8 hook this time.

show us some pics of your haul

Will do, wanted to go today but I don't want to go down there by myself.. Yesterday saw a few snakes, not sure if they were poisonous or not but rather not risk it especially because it'll get dark in a few hours. I chummed that place a lot, hopefully the carp will gain a pound or two, haha. Thunder storms coming all week so it looks like I'm stuck home for a bit.