How to Tie a Mono Twisted Boom to Prevent Tangles

There’s no doubt that booms improve bait presentation and help eliminate tangles. Here Paul Kerry shows how to make a mono twisted boom that can be fished as either a flapper or clipped down rig…

HERE’S ANOTHER VARIATION of the blood loop used as a fixed position hook snood connection point. What you end up with is a very flexible, thin boom that has enough stiffness to hold the snood clear of the trace line for flapper rigs, but is fl exible enough to use clipped down as well.

Its nylon construction keeps weight down and minimises trace costs. It is most effective with short hook snoods. In fact I have used it with a worm bait filling a very short hook snood so it hangs directly off the end of the boom. That makes it almost totally tangle free.