How shrink tubing affects your set-up
Avid Carp's Nigel Williams shows you how different shrink tubing lengths affect your set-up
001 The commonly used rigs Nige put to the test to see how small changes to your shrink tubing can make a difference.
002 The top rig has a more aggressive angle created with the shrink tubing, whilst the rig at the bottom follows the curve of the hook.
003 The result in a palm test is that the more aggressive angled rig flips over much later. The gradual curved tubing turns quickly.
004 With longshank hooks, however, it’s a short piece of shrink tubing that sees the better result, turning quicker than a long piece.
005 Nige was also keen to show us how adding a Line-Aligner to the shrink tubing, as shown, could change the mechanics slightly.
006 In this test, both rigs turned more readily and earlier. How many of you are incorporating a Line-Aligner into your shrink tubing?
007 Nige also demonstrated how much longer pieces of stiff shrink tubing could totally transform a rig. It looks odd, but it can work.
008 As this reveals. The big, daft looking length of shrink tubing turned straight away. The awkwardness of the rig actually works well.