How to catch with a Tyrolean stick, rigging and do-it-yourself tyrol installation

Tyrolean stick (aka Tyrolean) is an unusual “floating” weight and the method of the same name for a spinning rig. Tyrolka is used for catching predatory and semi-predatory fish with wobblers, spinners, jig lures. Also Tyrolean stick is used for fishing with streamers, silicone imitations of aquatic insects and flies of grayling, trout, minnow, chub, ide, bream and other fish – as an alternative to fly fishing. Do not spit at us fishermen-“world”, who also use such equipment for peaceful fish with the use of live bait – a worm, maggot, grasshopper. But today we will concentrate on catching predatory fish.

It was for fishing for trout and grayling on fast mountain rivers that this installation was used for the first time, in the city of the same name Tyrol.

Stock Tyrolean sticks of different weights and sizes [/ caption]

Tyrolka, or a fishing lifesaver

Mood like a Tyrolean stick in the classic form is a non-hook weight made in the form of a flexible hollow polymer tube with a diameter of 5 to 12 mm (less often more) with a hermetically inserted weight on one end and a sealed plastic plug with a fastening ring / swivel on the other.

Mood – the working part of the rig, like a Tyrolean stick.

This type of weight does not have clear parameters; there is a wide variety of tyrols, which differ in size, weight, shape, and types of weight.

Ideally, it is assumed that the air chamber formed within the cylinder will provide positive buoyancy and will keep the load upright at the bottom. But in practice this is not always the case. Due to the fact that this factor is influenced by many factors – the quality of workmanship, the selected bait, the strength of the current, the depth of fishing, the inept actions of the angler.

It is clear that this vertical positioning of the weight gives the angler two main bonuses. Firstly, this factor provides less snagging of the rig, this is especially noticeable among rocky ridges, shells, small branches. Tyrolka makes it possible to qualitatively process the necessary water area, be it driftwood, silt, stones, fallen leaves or loose sand. It has an excellent permeability between stones and snags, practically without getting stuck in them and easily pulled out, if it does happen, due to its flexibility and softness. In this case, if the hook is still “dead”, only the stick itself is lost (often only the weight jumps out), while the bait, going at some distance from the bottom, remains intact. Secondly, it is with the use of tyrolka,you can cast far and qualitatively / interestingly animate various spinning and fly fishing lures from the smallest flies, streamers, silicone worms, nymphs and others, to rather massive jig lures, floating wobblers and wobblers – suspenders. While keeping the bait in the bottom horizon, or a little higher throughout the drive. With all this, the angler himself can set the distance of the bait from the bottom by changing the length of the leash with the bait.
This installation shows its best qualities in the current, where the river itself animates the bait, and the angler only plays along by making timely pauses and pulls. On ponds without a current, Tyrolka is not so effective, but if necessary, it can be used in combination with active animation – twitch, wave-like wiring, stepped, pulls, stop-and-go and other methods. https://youtu.be/kJkW4dhZS8s

Making and equipping a Tyrolean stick with your own hands: what is needed to make a Tyrolean stick, features and types of installation schematically

Installation of equipment with a purchased ready-made sinker

To equip mounting with a Tyrolean stick you will need:

1. Actually, the cargo itself . If possible, you can purchase tyrols of various sizes, or several with replaceable plug-in sinkers, which is cheaper and more practical. Anti-twist will avoid the eternal problem of leash rigs – entanglement and overlap of leashes against each other and behind the main line [/ caption]
2. Triple swivel or anti-twist . For hitching all parts of the rig.
3. Crown rings , as part of the assembly.
4. Lures – jigs, flies, nymphs, silicone baits, etc., depending on the object of fishing.
5. Spinning tackle .

There are two ways of mounting the Tyrolean stick, the first in which the load on the sliding or blind hitch goes in front, and the bait behind and the second, in which the tyrolka goes behind the bait on the blind hitch.
Two types of tyrolean stick accessories. Option 1 – a sliding hollow lead and option 2 – blind installation of a hollow lead with a bait on the main line [/ caption]

First approach – tackle-lead-lead with bait

The first case of mounting a Tyrolean stick can be called classic and it is used more often, in particular, it is more suitable for fishing at the very bottom of a predatory fish standing there – pike perch, pike, perch. With a sufficient leash length and proper pauses, jig baits (silicone worms, nymphs, slugs, imitation insects), or a slowly sinking wobbler, gradually crumbling and tempting fish, fall to the bottom.
The first case (the load is higher than the bait) resembles the installation of a
diverter leash , but with a Tyrolean stick in the form of a load:
In this case, you can use an anti-twist, a triple swivel, or two stoppers if you want the tyrol to slide along the cord, although the latter is not necessary. The main line is knitted to one end of the swivel with clinch, albright, palomar, figure eight knots. A leash with fasteners or swivels is knitted into the second eyelet (middle) through the tyrol fastener and to the third, farthest from the tackle, a leash with fasteners or swivels is knitted, depending on which bait is supposed to be caught. It looks like this underwater:
The size of the leash is selected based on the depth at which it is supposed to fish and from where the alleged predator is and what its activity is. The longer the leash, the higher the bait will go from the bottom. Also, with a long leash, there is more room for various lazy animations with a lot of pauses and vertical component in the bait game. Note that if stoppers or an anti-twist device are used, then beads must be placed between the moving part and the connecting fittings so as not to break the connecting nodes:

Important! We knit all the nodes in the installation wet. Otherwise, you can burn fluor or monofilament if the knots are tightened too tightly.

Approach two: tackle-bait with a lead-sinker

The second case of mounting a Tyrolean stick, when the load is lower than the bait , is more often used when fishing for flies and streamers of perch and peaceful fish on flat rivers, as well as grayling, minnow, trout on fast mountain rivers with a strong current, when it is necessary for flies to constantly dangle with the current in the water column at the very bottom. In this case, when casting against the current, the load always follows the lures, which are always slightly higher or much higher than the bottom.

The distance above the bottom is selected based on the need and varies by the angler himself using the size of the tyrolka, the distance of the load from the leashes with flies and the casting distance.

It fits simply. To the main line through a loop, the leash is knitted under the streamers, for example. Leashes are imposed on the main line, for example, a loop into a loop, the leash length is 15-25 cm, and with an indent from each other exceeding the double length of the leash. At the end of the snap, a tyrol is attached through a fastener or knot. By the way, for attaching the leashes to the main line, a helicopter and two nodes are very well laid down as a basis for feeder mounting, more details in the video: https://youtu.be/bRH3mn6of6w

Another advantage of such a rig is that it is much less confusing than the first option. Of the minuses, it is worth noting that the baits do not have complete freedom of movement, therefore the area of ​​application and the features of the animation are different.

How to make a Tyrolean stick yourself?

Tyrolki can not always be found in stores, especially in the outback. And if they are there, then in an insufficient
range of weights, sizes and materials. There are several common options for how to make a Tyrolean stick with your own hands. For the manufacture of the base – the tubes, you can use droppers, silicone and PVC hoses, covers for telephone cables and wires, empty ampoules from under ballpoint pens, heat shrink tubes, brake hoses from heavy trucks, construction hydraulic level. It is important that they are flexible, have the ability to stretch and not crack when bent. It is desirable that they be transparent so that you can track the ingress of water into the cavity.
BUT! There is also the opposite opinion… So, many experts argue that in clear weather and in clear water, a silvery column of water in a transparent tube can alert a fish. And in such situations, it is better to use a matte dark tyrol weight. But this statement needs to be verified empirically on a pond. As a load, you can use pellets / buckshot, solder, cast weights, sheet lead of a suitable diameter, as well as special sticks – nails for loading silicone worms.
Weights for wacky of suitable diameter are suitable for homemade tyrol-weights [/ caption] Any plastic, liquid welding, foam plug can be used for the cork.

It is important that the buoyancy of the tube is sufficient to keep the tyrolka upright. That is, the tube should not be very narrow, perhaps ideally at least 8 mm in diameter, so as not to make it very long.

The tube is cut to the required length with a small margin. Length 15-20 cm. A weight is inserted tightly into the tube and sits on the glue according to the type of moment. You can also melt the end of the tube with a lighter – this method with heat shrink tubes is especially good – we recommend!

Super glue 505, 707, etc. will not work! They eat away at plastic!

On the other side, a floating material plug is inserted, also on the glue. Use a thin needle to make a hole in the cork, where the winding ring or clasp is inserted.
Weights can be cast on your own, making a shape in wood, plaster, sand … [/ caption]
The simplest tyrol pattern – hose / plug / weight, everything is sized and ready [/ caption] How to make Tyrolean sticks for fishing with your own hands: https://youtu.be/AeK1fMBJaQc Be sure to pay attention, so that water does not get into the cavity of the tube, otherwise the rig will not work properly.

About tyrolka baits

Depending on the method of tyrolka attachment, fishing conditions and the intended object of fishing, wobblers of positive buoyancy and suspenders can be used, silicone baits, ordinary and with positive buoyancy (imitation of worms, insects, insect larvae, fish), small and medium lures, spoons and spinners. To catch grayling, trout and other “fly fish” with Tyrolean sticks, anglers use flies, streamers, and their combinations.

How to fish with Tyrolean sticks – how to catch grayling and other predatory and peaceful fish

As noted, there are two options for mounting the tyrol. The first, with a leading sinker, is more often used when fishing for predatory and semi-predatory fish with wobblers and silicone baits, but it can also be used for catching haris, trout, minnow and other inhabitants of fast rivers with flies, streamers and small silicones.
A variant of the tyrolk’s mood for catching grayling, lenok, trout, minnow for flies, streamers [/ caption] For each type of bait, there are effective types of animation and behavior of the angler in general. So, when fishing with wobblers, suspenders and ordinary edible silicone use uniform wires with pauses, in which the wobbler slowly shakes its sides and gradually dies down, and the silicone fish / worm / slug / nymph slowly falls, as it is not directly loaded. Such a vertical component in the game of the bait cannot leave indifferent the channel pike, perch, zander. Even a passive predator, watching such lazy movements of a beaten wounded “fry”, often does not hold out and makes an attack. The floating wobbler and the rubber do float up on pause, gradually rising from the bottom to the height of the sum of the lengths of the leashes.While paused, lightly twitching the lure with the tip of the rod will usually give an even better effect.
A floating wobbler is an ideal bait for tyrolka, the higher the buoyancy parameter, the higher the effect [/ caption] If the option of the Tyrolean stick with the final sinker is used, then it is more suitable for catching grayling, asp, char, trout, lenok, skygazer, omul , chub, ide on jigs, wet flies, streamers, small imitations of insects. If the leash is rather long, then fishing is effective in half water, and not just at the bottom. Tyrolka can be successfully caught against the current. In this case, after casting, the line is pulled out by pulls with pauses, giving from time to time a slack, on which all the rig is surrendered in the opposite direction relative to the load. Often the bite follows exactly on pauses.
Fishing for grayling on the river – the line with flies is blown out by the current, and when the line is paused, the weight drags along, therefore, the first thing that the bait predator sees [/ caption] the difference is that, unlike a jig, a step in this case is not worth catching. The best option is dragging along the bottom with some pauses, during which the baits go downstream for drift than the tyrolka is located. Catching grayling with a Tyrolean stick – video from an expert: https://youtu.be/OW4azOrkWQ8 When using heavier tyrol lures with this equipment, you can successfully catch pike, perch, zander. Dragging the load at the bottom with pauses, a typical step, but with longer pauses, exploding from the bottom, punching. Another working mood for minitirolka grayling: https: // youtu.be / 4HATlq3f-Sk

Important! When fishing for flies, streamers, nymphs, and regardless of the type of mounting used, the load should always go along the bottom, periodically touching it, this is a high-quality play of flies and streamers. The advantage of this approach is that the cargo creates a cloud of turbidity, and this is another factor attracting the predator.

How to collect the tackle

The blank for fishing with Tyrolean sticks should be sonorous, fast, rigid, clearly conveying all the movements of the load along the bottom to the fisherman’s hand. But the length of the rod depends on the length of the used leash with lures and often this factor becomes a hindrance for the angler with a short spinning rod. After all, the overhang of the line in this type of fishing is quite significant and a high-quality cast cannot be made with a short stick. Therefore, for targeted fishing with a Tyrolean stick, we can recommend a rod with a length of at least 2.7 meters. Ideally, 3+ meters. But this is in the event that at least several such fishing trips are planned, since spinning is not needed for other fishing methods of this length.

You can pick up a relatively inexpensive telescopic spinning rod that is sonorous enough to drive weights of 10-30 grams, so as not to spend unnecessarily on expensive sticks for one rig.

The spinning test is selected based on the weight of the expected sinkers with a certain margin along the upper limit. For small rivers and up to 20 grams is enough, and for large and reservoirs sometimes 60-70 grams will be needed. Reel with high quality line laying, with easy movement and no loosening of loops. According to Shimano 2500-3000 depending on the used braid diameter. The basis is either a braid with a diameter of 0.12-0.15 or a fluor 0.22-0.35. Fluor leashes 0.22-0.28. When fishing for large pike perch and pike, the whole tackle is taken as a whole more powerful. Tyrolka, with skillful use, expands the range of possibilities of the spinning player. When fishing with a Tyrolean stick, the most difficult thing is to bring all the unknowns into one clear orchestra, a clear march. Choose the weight, length and diameter of the tyrol, choose the thickness of the fluorocarbon / braid and the length of the leashes for specific conditions, so,so that the rig works accurately and exactly in the same direction as the spinning player and predator wish.

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