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Microfishing Tippet Connectors
Microfishing tippet connectors allow you to quickly and easily attach a snelled tanago hook to your main line. No knots or loop to loops are required. I learned about them from the Micro Fishing Kit because it uses one. It makes rigging or re-rigging much easier than messing around trying to tie a knot in a 1 lb test line (even if it is red so you can see it). The connector has an eye to tie it to your main line. The other end of the connector is essentially a hook with no gape. You slide the snell from the tanago hook into it, wrap it around once and slide it in again. (There is an illustration showing how on the back of the package.) It doesn't slip. I don't know if it significantly weakens the tippet, but the snelling on the tanago hooks is about 1 lb test to begin with, so great strength is not its primary attribute.
Now you might snicker at the idea of heart-in-the-throat adrenaline while fishing for minnows, but when atenkley hooked an 11 or 12 inch channel cat while fishing for minnows recently, I will bet you his heart was in his throat! (And yes, he landed it with his 6'6" Soyokaze.)
Owner Microfishing Tippet Connectors - $4.50 (package of 10) PaymentPayment is through Paypal but you don't need to have a Paypal account. You can use your credit card. PayPal payments will be made to chris at tenkarabum dot com. Credit card statements will read CM Stewart. ShippingDomestic shipping is $3. Most small items can be shipped together for a flat $3 charge. International First Class postage is higher than domestic postage and an additional $2 charge will be required. If international customers would prefer to have their packages sent by International Priority Mail, which is faster, I will do so. The extra charge depends on the country of destination. (Note: please click on an International Priority Mail Surcharge button only once per order). Return from Microfishing Tippet Connectors to TanagoBum Return from Microfishing Tippet Connectors to TenkaraBum Home
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Besides, as I have mentioned before, I think one should give the micros a fighting chance. If there is no possibility that anything you might hook could break your line, it takes a bit of the uncertainty and a lot of the heart-in-your-throat adrenaline out of the whole process.