Pike trace storage

[Chris Bishop]

Tried wallets, sometimes use them when I'm going ultra-light but the main drawback is the hook points eventually poke through the pockets and the zips go.

 

Bins are far better.

[Guest tigger]

If you want to keep the rigs straight then you can use a peice of thin drain pipe.use a hack saw to cut slits in one end and put the hook over the other end. You can use cardboard tube also.

[Andy Macfarlane]

Most of the pikers round my neck of the woods, keep their traces on the end of 4" of 6lb mono, down the throats of suicidal jack pike.

[highseas]

hmm that may raise some eybrows!!!!!

[Neil G]

If the bulk of a rig bin is a problem and you don't want to risk bare treble hooks in a pocket, there are plenty of small round food tubs in your local supermarket that will happily accomidate 4 or 5 properly coiled traces without undue risk of tangles and that;d fit snuggly in almost any pocket.

 

Good suggestion there

 

My brother uses a smash tin with a piece of pipe lagging inside to wrap the traces round....still bulky but an alternative to paying lots for the real thing.

[poledark]

I can't see that anyone else has suggested it, but why not make your traces in two parts. Mount your trebles on a short 4-6" trace, and have a seperate trace about 15" long which you clip on, So when your hook section gets mangled (as mine do) you unclip the long section and clip on a new short trace.

 

Saves an awful lot of wire

 

Den

[Andy Macfarlane]

I can't see that anyone else has suggested it, but why not make your traces in two parts. Mount your trebles on a short 4-6" trace, and have a seperate trace about 15" long which you clip on, So when your hook section gets mangled (as mine do) you unclip the long section and clip on a new short trace.

 

Saves an awful lot of wire

 

Den

 

Ere that's an idea....well in Den

[wsmlewy]

i bought a cheap rig wallet off ebay think it was £6 delivered and its real tree just a case of hooking them on the rail at the top around the pin and back up placing annother pin in the swivel eye its as easy as that

[Jim Murray]

i bought a cheap rig wallet off ebay think it was £6 delivered and its real tree just a case of hooking them on the rail at the top around the pin and back up placing annother pin in the swivel eye its as easy as that

 

Is this the one:-

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CAMO-STIFF-RIG-HOOK-...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

 

If so, how long is it and is it light? Also is it suitable for pike traces(size 6 trebles)? Looks good

[Chubstar]

I can't see that anyone else has suggested it, but why not make your traces in two parts. Mount your trebles on a short 4-6" trace, and have a seperate trace about 15" long which you clip on, So when your hook section gets mangled (as mine do) you unclip the long section and clip on a new short trace.

 

Saves an awful lot of wire

 

Den

 

I like that one! I'm having to retackle after virtually every fish and making up a new trace there and then, and being newish to piking have yet to buy a trace storage bin or rig board.