Blueback Herring BTD 4-fly Vegan Rig

The popularization of meat rigs for trolling for trophy sized Great Lakes trout and salmon has skyrocketed over the previous decade. Mainstream manufacturers have developed custom-painted bait heads as well as offered a series of advanced Howie-style mylar or tinsel-based teaser flies located in close proximity to the trailing baithead. As effective as meat rigs have been for aggressive and non-aggressive fish, some anglers still favor non-bait trolling preferences for their entire trolling repetoire. Fundamentally, this is where vegan rigs shine. Vegan rigs (e.g. House of Herring rigs in Alaska) are trolling systems which consist of multiple teaser flies connected to a larger-sized trailer fly in similar color combinations with an absence of bait and contains a double single octopus hook or tournament single-treble hook stinger system.  Previous vegan rigs offered an improper bead stopping system consisting of waterlogged toothpicks or barrel swivels on the main flurocarbon leader and the latest version from Musky Mike Flies solves that dilemma. Other systems use series of crimp sleeves as the stopper. These  original systems pose three problems: (1) teaser flies slide into each other, (2) crimps weaken the fluro leader,  (3) and ineffective swimming performance. Musky Mike Flies Vegan Rig systems consist of a 6-turn sliding nail knot of 80-pound Dacron behind the 6mm stopping bead. Thus, allows for easy change of interspaced distance of the teaser flies. The 4-fly Vegan Rig system is offered in 4 length formulas for the 3 teaser flies and larger trailer fly. Options are as follows:  a 3-3-4-6 inches, 3-4-4-7-inch, 3-4-6-8-inch, and 3-4-6-10-inch. The 3-4-6-10-inch rig is for trophy lake trout.  All models are tied onto a 50-inch 60-pound Seaguar Bluelabel flurocarbon leader, thus consisting of a double #4/0 Gamakatsu octopus hook. A tournament single-treble hook system is also available. The 60-pound flurocarbon leader allows for superb swimming performance compared to lighter leaders because Musky Mike Flies blueback herring BTD patterns contain more material than traditional Howie-style flies. This allows for easier turnover when attached with flashers. Overall this is the most advanced level of artistry and realism ever observed in a Vegan Rig trolling system. This is the system required for a trophy 30-plus pound Great Lakes or 50-plus pound ocean Chinook!!