As mentioned before, I have made some adjustments to the way I tie the rig and also how it is mounted on the main line.
The rig is tied pretty much the same but the swivel has changed from a large eye to a ring swivel. This is because I can then have the shot mounted on a loop of floss under the swivel and mainline pulling everything down in a much neater way than having it on the loop knot on the rig.
When the shot is mounted like this, the rig wasn’t ‘flying’ off the shock sleeve as well as previous so I needed to alter this a bit.
I still wanted to protect the line during the fight so the obvious solution was a small length of rig tube inserted into a helicopter bead. This was pulled through and then ‘blobbed’ with a lighter to hold it in position without the need of any glue.
I have now, after Jez’s suggestion, employed the use of a Korda sinker to set my depth along with the ESP bead.
I am now totally happy that I am using a safe rig that sits nicely.