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no that was me,and it really is likely to be a tight fit. lay all your gear out and times it by five then add all that bait etc etc. and I use a trailer because I do very very very long sessions frequently, not two night hits

where you based mate, five loads of gear in one transit will be bloody tight going

dont see any benefit in it at all, the weight issue is really not an issue!! tubing is far more versitile,maleable and above all fish friendly, leadcore is just a simple no no for me and should be with far more.

I only ever use tubing, majority of my fishing is with 6-8ft lengths with critical mass dotted along. dont like leadcore, to open for poor use by ill informed or irresponsible idiots

remember I was talking in a pm a while ago about a new hooking arrangement for zigs i was looking forward to getting into mate, this is it

yes mate lots will be jumping on the bandwagon and buying from firms that are selling a gimmick though, and actually worthless in fishing terms

would make it far more visible

with regards to a lead, the density of the glass doesnt affect the clarity of it, you would need to be fishing a very shallow water, somewhere around a mile off the sun and casting once a minute, so as to keep the lead moving before you could spot mine. Did tests on my water....gin clear..depths 5-7ft, i dropped one in the margin in six inches of water, and four of us spent twenty minutes looking for it. wouldnt touch anything else now, aside from dung leads for snaggy choddy areas, and only because they take a glug on

and im also not daft mate buy the mass produced kaka at your own peril, waste of time, I had the foresight to get a guy to custom make mine nearly twelve months ago .......... do not buy the smooth leads, they slip like you would not believe thats all im saying on the matter now

no mate, and they have the same problem, impossible to tighten down to them

dont bother with above smooth as silk and you cannot tighten down to them, they just glide across the bottom

sorry mate, not a chance

my water is shallow (approx 6ft) and totally gin clear so yes it would improve my edge

without doubt if they come up with the product they are promising mate, they did with my leads and they cost £3.75 each

not using glass for the hooks, just my leads(totally invisible ) are using a poly-carbonate compound for the hooks, still testing them

the firm that make my glass leads are already on the tracks to making them

well hopefully if all in order before christmas tickets for mine will be ready for new year for three of you and jez's son too mate.

werent you down there with jez mate?? told me some horror stories when he came and had a beer with me on my water few weeks ago, and then you moved off??? enough said for me mate

not to detract from your thinking on the mechanics of this rig mate as you are obviously applying thought to it but, as nick said the key is in getting them on the bait and a very basic rig will fool them more often than not then. I think you may be over egging the omelette so to speak, but if its working for you then stick with it, but I would suggest doing a fairly lengthy test by fishing a basic rig alongside it and recording results

hard channel/bar in upper left corner looks tasty for one. and I do mean upper left corner of lake, before any turd decides to tell me thats a road!!!!

he asked about stiff rigs not chod rigs mate, can use either pop ups or bottom baits on bristle filament mate just a different configuration of same materials.... ie hinged etc. wouldnt reccomend fishing stiff rigs in heavy weed though mate, I fish a very weedy water myself and your presentation will be crap if you dont drop it in a hole. A chod rig ( all of us over thirty five knew this one centuries ago as a silt rig) is a different kettle of fish, as the name says, fish over chod not in the weed. stick with supple hooklengths for weed mate

possibly the best post I have read

have used open stranded with mucilin on it, fair results but there are better alternatives

just dont use super bouyant pops for hook baits especially on a chod rig, tendancy to lift the leadcore giving the total opposite effect you were looking for