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Morning fellas . Havent we all wondered what our baited rigs REALLY look like on the lakebed ? After watching the underwater carp fishing videos that uncle Danny has been flogging and we've seen the carp "getting away with it" , how many sessions on the bank have been spoilt by that nagging doubt at the back of your mind ? Are you fishing properly ? Is it tangled ? Has that pva melted properly ? Murder isnt it ? Well fellas im delighted to say that that probkem has been solved forever , and it can be for you all as well . All you need is some petrol in your car . As some of you know , i've moved house recently . There are a lot of mostly minuses about this but one good thing has come out of it ..... We just won £500k on the lotto .(and i cant even post a smilie lol). She wants a swimming pool believe it or not . At least now i'll have somewhere to test my rigs . And you are all welcome to come and use my new life sized rig tank , life is definitley looking up

I don't use runing rigs that often but when I do, and I am fishing in silt or a soft area as you put it, I will use this simple arangement (sorry for the tattyness. It was just a quick sketch as its better than me trying to explain it in words):

I'm not sure what forum this should be in.... sorry if incorrect, i saw this and had to share it, nice fish and a great way to land it!!!!

Nice one mate, you and your family deserve it more than anyone I know, :razz: :razz:

Yes mate, very similar. I like to use a stiff filament though as I found it tangles less especially if used with an anti-tangle sleeve on the hooklink. Also, the large ring, used so the mainline can travel through with as little resistance as possible, sometimes had the tendency to 'spin' leaving the mainline sort or trapped. It's not that much of a problem but makes it act as a fixed lead (not what I was after with the setup). To combat this, a short length of tubing on the mainline, blobbed into the bead to stop it slipping, works wonders! I showed this to Mick the other week at Horseshoe. It's how I set up my marker float but incorporate a foot of leadcore (lead removed) to get over that spinning of the ring.

And with leadcore and pendant or inline set-ups, it only takes a tiny kink and the fish could now be trailing a death rig. If you have to use leadcore, then only ever with a helicopter set-up, but my advice, is ditch the leadcore totally. I know about inline running leads, and yes, they can work, but are they working as we think they are? I came to the conclusion, if I want a running lead, use a run ring. If I want to fish in weed with an inline, then use a straight semi-fixed inline

Wow well in mate ....... Just gotta get this 1 st day of April out of the way in work and I'll be down to celebrate with you Tim : D