Quick-Strike Rig

[RayRay79]

Hello All.  I want to try making my own Quick-Strike Rigs... and like your typical Manitoban, as cheap as possible.  Just wanna know where I can purchase the wire and parts to make it.  I saw some pre-made ones, but the treble hooks were just huge.  There is a good article on the quick-strike rigs in the December issue of In-Fisherman and want to see if they work.

[Thriller]

I forget if it was here or one of the other Manitoba forums, but I recall a thread about this.  You may want to search or dig around a bit more.  Now that I think about it, I think it was Myfishfinder.com.

I haven't made any myself, but I'd like to.  I seem to recall someone was doing it just using storebought leaders and trebles that would fit over the swivel end...I don't recall exactly what was used to keep the hook from sliding though.

[J_MAKI]

They are real easy to make and you can make a lot nicer ones than the ones you buy for less money. I  like to put Gamakatsu hooks on mine because I feel you will get a lot better hook sets with these hooks. I like to have a variety of rigs made up with different size hooks for different size baits.
To make the rigs I take about a 20-inch piece of nylon coated stainless wire (buy by the spool at fishin hole or pro am) and wrap it directly to the eye of the first treble. To wrap I pull about a 2-2 ˝ inch length of wire through the eye of the hook and kink it sharply and then clamp on a pair of miniature vise grips or forceps on the end of the short length, next hold onto the treble hook and the end of the longer length of wire with the kinked wire resting in the hook eye and start “twirling” the vice grips around the wire (be careful  not to hook yourself –I always pinch the barbs first just in case). You want to get very tight close wraps (I prefer the vice grips because the extra weight seems to make it easier to get nice tight wraps).  Also make sure no one is in front of you or your not in front of a window because the vice grips or forceps may fly off. It may take you a couple of tries before you get a nice even wrap. If you screw up just cut the kinked up wire of and start over- it is difficult to try and rewrap the kinked up wire.
Once you get a good wrap use a lighter or tea candle to lightly melt the wrapped nylon together this has to be done to lock the wrap. Slowly bring the wrap into the heat because you don’t want to burn the nylon you just want to fuse it together. Watch the wrap closely and you will see lots of little bubbles start to develop in the nylon and that is when you should remove it from the heat.
Now simply slide another hook onto the wire and then attach a barrel swivel at the other end using the same method described above or you can form a looped end but I prefer swivels. Some people use those sleeves you clip on like leaders are made with but this method is way stronger. Don’t try tying the wire as it won’t hold plus it kinks the wire all up and you get really ugly knots, which can slip without any warning.    
As for rigging I always hook the first hook behind the head and the free hook in the back so the bait sits horizontally in the water. You can usually get by without adding any weights sometimes in smelts you have to puncture the body cavity to let the air out of the bladder.