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What if the lead lands bait down? You end up with your lead masking hook bait?!? I vouch for two PVA nuggets folded around the hook. If the hair is real long, tie it up with pva tape wrapped round. I don't like small PVA bags, everyone uses small bags of pellet or stick mix on their hook bait, just not for me. The wind resistance of the PVA is enough to hold it out straight on the cast, and if you hit the clip, or snag the line when it hits the water, it straightens out fine.

Ye that sounds good. I'd rather not have to cast out as far as possible because I'm not using big pit reels. I'm a big fan of margin fishing but with them massive commons in there its defonatly worth a trip

I am new to the wonders of quick change hence new to tying loops in my hooklinks as opposed to swivels Before I begin, please refrain from telling me to tie a horrible little wire loop on my rigs, lol I tried them and binned the lot, I could not get them onto the swivels without tearing my fingers to pieces, and they also made an absolute dog's dinner of my bags in trying to pull them through.. anyway.. I am concerned about simple loop knots using braid. I don't want to tie a double loop or buly knot as I like I said want a neat knot to pull through the bag My main concern is strength of knot and suitability to braid. The braid I am using is strong (20lb) As I was tightening my new batch of rigs they seemed ok, but one did go at the loop knot using my pullers quite hard. That happened to be the braid that is softest of all that I was using, I don't mean weakest, but supplest. I really don't want to pull the lot apart as I tied loads. Shall I glue them? Please put my mind at rest.

Fair play for having a go, if you ever use fluro or even mono for a hooklength use that knot , you'll be amazed how much straighter it sits

stop press, lol I wasn't happy with em so I dismantled the lot and learnt the perfection loop like all new knots it was very fiddly at first but is actually not hard to tie The links seem a lot stronger now I think the first few yards of the dodgy braid spool were a bit weak as they were exposed in a shop for a long time, but with the new knot as opposed to the simple overhand loop it is now behaving Whatever the problem was, I now have 6 (all that I could manage before going mad, I have literally spent, including the previous evening, about 7 hours fretting over and tying rigs and I am finally happy with them I think it is important to have confidence in what you are doing in all facets of carping and it all starts with the one thing that you can really control and that is rigs They are unbelievably simple, but ever so beautifully tied, sneaky, and neat, just the way I like to fish. Thanks for the advice.

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