Many anglers prefer fly fishing to all traditional types of fishing - a special kind without the use of a float and sinker. A hook with a bait is thrown so that it stays on the surface of the water or sinks to a shallow depth. In this case, artificial or live insects are used as bait.
With this method of fishing, special attention is paid to the quality of nodal joints, which are not always reliable. The strength of the attachment of the tooling elements in fly fishing as well as ultralight spinning fishing is ensured by fly fasteners.
What it is?
When fly fishing, standard fishing clasps, snap hooks and swivels are not used due to their excessive bulkiness. Instead, they use special miniature fasteners for fastening and changing the front sight, which are called "fly fishing". This kind of knotless connection is indispensable in the case when there is a need to quickly change the fly when fly fishing or a spinning mini-bait when fishing with ultralight gear and microjig.
As can be seen in the photo, fly clasps are round and drop-shaped.
Advantages and disadvantages
The main advantages of fly fasteners include:
- The ability to quickly change the bait.
- Small weight and size of the device.
- When using fly-fishing fasteners, the fishing line is almost not deformed, since fishing nodes are not used for fastening.
The disadvantages of such devices are:
- small sizes make them uncomfortable to hold in the fingers;
- when using them, the length and weight of the bait increases, which can scare off too careful fish;
- when using a low-quality fastener, production may break at the moment of survival.
To prevent this from happening, only high-quality fly-type fasteners from trusted companies should be used for fishing. One of these is the Norwegian company Mustad ("Mustad").
Mustad and its products
The company is considered one of the world's leading manufacturers of fishing hooks and other types of equipment for commercial, sport and recreational fishing. The products of this company are successfully sold in more than one hundred and sixty countries of the world.
Mustad fly clasps are reliable and have a high margin of safety thanks to production technology and the materials used for manufacturing. The three-level process of heat treatment, which is controlled by a computer, allows you to create a mount with a heavy-duty microstructure that eliminates the possibility of breakage when using this mount.
Quality control of products is carried out at all stages of production, from checking the physical and chemical properties of the wire to control products before and after all stages of temperature and surface treatment.
There are several models of such fasteners, each of which has three sizes: the first number is large, the number two is medium, and the number three is small fasteners.
How to make a zipper do it yourself
The saying "you want to do well - do it yourself" is justified in the case of the manufacture of such compounds. If you don’t want to spend money on their purchase, you can make fly fasteners yourself, easily and quickly.
As a material for their manufacture, you can use old fishing hooks numbered from third to sixth. First of all, they remove the sting from the pliers, and then with the help of small round pliers bend the forend of the hook, resulting in the fastener of the required shape. Some hooks can be overheated and break as a result of folding. You can try to let them go on fire to increase elasticity. Unhooked hooks are more malleable.
Clasps made in this way are reliable and do not require any financial expenses. And by the way, spinning players who use fly-fishing clasps when fishing with small baits for ultralight and micro-jig, most of them prefer handicrafts.
Useful Tips
The use of such fasteners is most justified in cases where the angler is exploring a new fishing place, experimentally selecting the necessary tips, often changing one or another type of bait. In order not to mess around for a long time, untying and again tying the nodal joints, it will be more efficient to use precisely the fasteners. These compounds also perform well when fishing in places where there are many snags.
Due to their miniature size, fly-on clasps cause some inconvenience during installation. Therefore, the assembly process of such a fastener is best done with tweezers, which greatly facilitates this procedure.
Such compounds combine well with spinners, small leashes of thin fishing thread and balancers. Wrapping a fishing line on a clasp of any shape, it is recommended to pre-wet it to increase the adhesion strength of these elements.