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Assist cord - why remove the internal cord?

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Mark Harris:
Yep, I suspect some people do do that Eric, which I why I mentioned splicing as a possibility above. But I don't think this is at all common.

Tying assists is so easy as Kevlar just does not slip, so why go to the fiddly trouble of splicing?

As an aside, personally I like a doubled cord on my assists be they for fixing to top water lures or for jigging.  Makes the knotting even easier as there is just one (holding the assist to the hook shank) and the hook is looped back through a solid ring.  The only time I don't do that is when using a really long shanked hook like a Jobu as the assist cord would have to very long to allow the looping.

Dmitrii Novgorodtcev:

--- Quote from: Mark Harris on February 04, 2012, 09:41:17 PM ---As an aside, personally I like a doubled cord on my assists be they for fixing to top water lures or for jigging.  Makes the knotting even easier as there is just one (holding the assist to the hook shank) and the hook is looped back through a solid ring.  The only time I don't do that is when using a really long shanked hook like a Jobu as the assist cord would have to very long to allow the looping.

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Mark,
You can have a very short assist cord (shorter than hook shank) even with long shanked hook like a Jobu, if you loop not around the hook, but around a solid ring!
Though I am not sure my explanation is clear (sorry. English is not my native language).

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