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I use a size 4 for most of my fishing, with big or small baits, bottom baits or snowman. I keep saying it, but look at where you are hooking (or losing) fish. If the fish is hooked in the middle of the bottom lip, then the hair length is right. If hooked at the back of the mouth, or scraped down the back to the middle, or even the cheek, then usually the hair is too long. If you have hooked the fish right at the front of the lip, or are losing fish then the hair is too short. The hair length gap is the distance between the hook and the bait, so it is that that needs changing. All that gets confused and screwed however, as your background baiting can change how long a hair you need; usually the more groundbait, pellets or particles you use as your baited area may see you need to shorten the hair. Next thing is pop-ups I tend to fish tight to the hook as the mechanics may be different

Man up Lads. Centrepins are the way to go for cats................

I'm thinking that we are using similar rigs apart from I'm on braided hooklnks, I fish mine shorter around 4/5inch , with a small pile of bait the fish aren't moving around much and picking up your hook bait they are not moving around to much and can reject it before the lead comes into play , so either a longer hair(more of a problem to eject) or a shorter hook link (the weight of the lead will help to set the hook and bolt the fish) Its not gospel , Dave