Your purchase trends?

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would your purchase be influenced if the components were top quality? ie, fluorocarbon, ball bearing swivels, circle hooks, etc

I specifically go out of my way to have rigs made with top quality components.

At the risk of sounding like a snob, anyone can go to Walmart and buy prepackaged, pretied rigs that come 6 to a package. However, try finding one with THE circle hook you want with THE lb test you want with THE teaser your want. The problem is that these rigs are mass produced and sold nationwide. The manufacturers don't have the insight that local shops (or you) have when it comes to making rigs the right sizes and colors.

If you can tie them yourself with the components you want then go for it but I find that there is no substitute for a good tackle shop that will make a rig to your specs. In addition, you can order as many or as little as you want.

Furthermore tackle shops are virtually never out of stock when it comes to rigs because they usually always have the component parts for the rigs for sale individually and it doesn't take them much time to actually make a couple rigs on demand. In fact, often I order some rigs in mono and just a few of the same rig in wire just in case Mr. Razorlips is in town.

For example, I swear by the cod teaser rigs that Darell at Neponset Circle Fishing and Darts makes. His rigs are tied in such a way that the circle hooks dangle very freely resulting more effective "self hooking". He also uses knots only - no scrimps and no swivels thus offering a much cleaner presentation to the fish. These are the same rigs that he and his friends use when they go fishing and you should see the pics at his shop. Last year he caught a 44# cod and this year Tai, one of his workers, had a double hookup of over 100# with these same rigs!!!