Preston Innovations KKM-B Mag Store Hair Rigs

Preston Innovations KKM-B Mag Store Hair Rigs

In modern commercial match fishing, efficiency and absolute consistency are the dividing lines between framing and going home empty-handed. Fumbling on the bank with cold, wet hands trying to tie the perfect knotless knot can cost you vital fish during a frantic feeding window. The Preston Innovations KKM-B Mag Store Hair Rigs provide the ultimate professional solution. These premium, factory hand-tied hooklengths are constructed to microscopic tolerances, allowing you to reload your rig setup instantly with 100% confidence in every single knot.

As part of the industry-leading Mag Store System, these rigs come pre-loaded onto a rigid plastic rig stick that slots natively straight into any size-compatible Preston Mag Store System Box. Built using the legendary KKM-B barbless hooks and tied to the ultra-reliable Preston Reflo Power line, these hooklengths are completed with either a durable micro latex bait band or a heavy-duty Rapid Stop.

At Gerry’s Fishing, we know that serious match and pleasure anglers demand perfection. These rigs eliminate the guesswork from your terminal prep, ensuring your hookbait is always perfectly aligned and ready to convert the faintest touch into a massive, rod-bending wrap.

Technical Specifications

Key Features & Construction

• Clinical Hand-Tied Precision: Every single rig is tied by expert technicians to exact specifications. The hair lengths, whipping turns, and loop sizes are completely identical across all eight rigs, giving you uncompromised, repeatable presentation.

• The KKM-B Hook Advantage: Featuring a custom out-turned eye that creates an aggressive “kick-out” angle for the line, maximizing self-hooking efficiency. The non-reflective PTFE coating completely eliminates underwater flash, while the beaked point ensures an iron-clad hold.

• Legendary Reflo Power Line: Tied exclusively using the UK’s best-selling match monofilament. Reflo Power is globally renowned for its exceptional built-in knot strength, structural abrasion resistance, and highly accurate stated diameters.

• Instant Mag Store Integration: The rigid plastic rig stick features weather-proof identification stickers detailing the exact hook size, line diameter, and breaking strain. The stick drops instantly into the magnetic tracks of your Mag Store box, keeping your tackle perfectly organized.

• Tailored Bait Formats: Available with a high-stretch latex Bait Band (ideal for hard pellets, dumbells, and wafters) or a streamlined Rapid Stop (perfect for pulling straight through soft baits like sweetcorn, luncheon meat, or expander pellets using a booster needle).

Where to Use: Recommended Scenarios

• Commercial Method & Hybrid Feeder Racing: The 4-inch (10cm) variant is the definitive choice for flat-bed method, hybrid, or pellet feeder tactics. The short length keeps your banded wafter or hard pellet sitting dead-center in your compressed pile of feed, triggering instant bolt-rig hookups as carp sift through the payload.

• High-Velocity Summer Pellet Waggler tactics: The 6-inch (15cm) variant is exceptional when targeting large carp feeding aggressively in the upper layers. The out-turned eye of the KKM-B ensures the hook flips and drives home instantly when a carp smashes a hard pellet on a high-speed drop.

• Heavy-Duty Pole Margin Bashing: Ideal when target-fishing down the edge or tight against island structures with substantial baits like cubed meat or double corn. The medium-strong wire gauge of the hook handles the intense initial pressure of big fish bolting for cover.

The Gerry’s Fishing Verdict

The Preston Innovations KKM-B Mag Store Rigs completely revolutionize bankside preparation. Many generic pre-tied rigs suffer from inconsistent hair lengths or poor line choices that cause curly pigtails after a single fish. Preston has completely ironed out those flaws by matching the industry’s premier hair-rigging hook with Reflo Power line. Combined with the slick, magnetic storage stick layout, it is an absolute masterclass in tactical convenience that saves you hours at the tying bench.

Gerry’s Pro Tip: When utilizing the Bait Band version of these rigs with hard pellets, always choose a pellet that is slightly larger than the relaxed diameter of the band. For example, use a 6mm pellet in a 4mm band. This forces the latex to stretch tightly, turning the band into a rigid, semi-stiff extension of the hair. This prevents the pellet from wobbling loosely or masking the hook point during flight, resulting in a significantly cleaner presentation and an even higher hook-conversion rate when a fish samples the bait!

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Will these rig sticks fit into other standard hooklength boxes?

No. These specific rig sticks are precision-engineered to lock magnetically into the Preston Innovations Mag Store System Box range (available in 4-inch, 6-inch, 8-inch, and 15-inch configurations). They will not sit properly or lock into generic foam or plastic pin-style hook boxes.

What is the benefit of choosing the Rapid Stop version over the Bait Band?

The Bait Band option is heavily favored for hard, un-drilled baits like standard commercial pellets, hard dumbells, or wafters where the band grips the exterior. The Rapid Stop version is the ultimate tool for soft or drilled baits; you push a fine needle into the plastic stop, push it straight through the center of corn, meat, or soft expanders, and pull the needle out. The stop flips horizontally, anchoring the soft bait perfectly onto the hair without tearing it apart on the cast.

Are these ready-tied rigs legal on modern commercial fisheries?

Yes, 100%. Every rig in the Mag Store KKM-B range is tied using strictly barbless hooks, making them entirely legal on all commercial and club waters across the country that enforce strict “barbless only” policies to protect fish welfare.