To shorten the shooting head and make it fishable, I cut it, remove about 10 cm of the coating, and use an 8-knot at the line end, which I secure with a piece of shrink tubing. Other connections are also possible, but, if it comes to fighting big fish, I have always preferred a knot to any other fancy-looking connections. Everything has to be functional and quick. For this purpose, the weight or length should also be easy to identify. Colored heat shrink tubing will help. You can seal the loop by working Aqua Sure or equivalent into the core loop.

In the following slider, you can see how easy it is to customize your Mucho Hucho Super-Sinker. You can use acetone or just a piece of backing to remove the coating. Please remember that if you want to use a 5 m head, you have to cut it to 5.10 m, as 10 cm of the core has to be exposed in order to make the figure-8-knot. Try the Mucho Hucho Super-Sinker, because it will be the perfect means to cast your streamer to the fish safely and you will not have to misuse your fly rod as a spinning rod! Use my cutting table for this! You can download it as a PDF after the slider. Another Low-/Midwater Mucho Hucho SH is already in the pipeline. Because of Covid 19, it will take some more time!

Tight lines and please put all huchen back carefully!

Günter Feuerstein

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