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had a couple of go's with this rig now , I'm getting quite good results with using a stiffer hair , i have tried it with a soft braid as the hair but it gets tangled up a lot , where using a mono loop over to use as the hair I'm not getting tangled at all , so far its been hooking fish mostly in the bottom lip and the hook holds seem to be good , been using this with three or four pellets as bait also with sweet corn and chickpeas , i've only lost one fish using this rig and i think that was me to blame rather than the rig .... dave

i find as long as you cast a high arc it will open every time, tho i have had miss casts that have gone in really shallow and still opened thereby dumping my bait where i dont intend to fish ( that could be down to my cra ppy casting tho)

I’d not ignore putting out a good quality boilie. This is the time of year the fish go on the feed and put on weight. They’ll be searching for a good food source. Crumb it up and use halves to get it to settle on the silt. Don’t be afraid to fish in 3ft of silt. Just use a helicopter setup with a chod rig set 3ft up with a 1ft between the beads so it can settle nicely on top.

I guess if chods are for nods then ronnies are for yonny's😂

Ronnie is just like the chod when it came to light, the go to rig for sheep...

only ever used a spomb never had any issues as for the others cant say never used them

if you ever do take the time to catch a upper single, look at the size of its gob, most can take a 20mm boilie without a struggle so a #4 would fly in

Try here http://broadlands-lake.co.uk/

My winter results are pretty dire tbh…… With the silt being quite deep, I'd probably do a mix of both dead and live maggots. Groats are a cheap particle that could be added, they kinda replicate maggots a bit, looks wise and will take on some liquid additives too... Good luck mate.

Your Dangly bits should most definitely be removed! First thing in the morning is spotting time, not baiting up time😉 I have been out on a lake in a boat first thing in the morning over my baited spots, and if I didn't catch the night before, my bait is usually still there untouched. There are some occasions when I had been sussed, or a tangled rig prevented a take, but very few. Carp and other fish cannot visit every spot in the lake that has food on it every night, and they simply can't eat it all. Add to that night time darkness takes, they cannot see the rig, so it is suck and blow ejection, not visibly avoid. Carp do not always feed at night on every water, I have had numbers of fish during the day. Some are night waters, but some are definitely waters where the carp will feed during the day. If you do catch first thing, the only bait to put in is with a PVA bag or stringer, don't be spodding loads more in. Even cattying baits in can be enough to spook some fish. The splash of a lead and PVA is one splash. Cattied or throwing sticked baits is numbers of splashes, as for the spod/Spomb... If I was turning up for a day session then all my baiting is nearly always done with PVA, a single chuck with a stringer or bag. It is very rare I spod in. It is extremely unfair on other anglers, disrespectful and plain ignorant. If no-one else is on the lake, maybe I will if I know the fish respond to loads of bait, and maybe if I am baiting up for later, but most definitely not around other anglers, Just a few first light fish:

Must admit I think The Ronnie rig is more fish and landing net friendly than the 360 rig, although both present the bait very similarly. I know Frank (Levigsp) really rates the 360, although as has been said before by myself and others when netting a fish, make sure the fish goes to the bottom of the landing net, because if the swivel/hook eye catches in the mesh it can make a mess of the fishes mouth. I think the movement on the 360, being able to spin 360 (d'oh😖) is better than the movement of a slowed down covered swivel of The Ronnie rig. The 360, is also easier to tie up. Presentation, both are going to be very close to the lakebed, both can be presented as a hinge/combi style rig with a stiff or supple boom to get over the substrate and reduce tangles. I have caught on both, but the Jingly Jangly rig as I think it was Keith Jenkins named the 360 originally is the better hooker, dependant on hook you use, whereas the Ronnie more hooks are suitable. For the Ronnie, I use Solar 101's and Gardner Muggas, whereas the 360, I think the curve shank patterns are best. Both give 'reset' chances after an aborted take or bird interest, (as many pop-up rigs do) compared to blowback rigs using tubing which may be triggered and fail to hook if birds have played with the bait.