goblin
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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
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possibly the best post I have read
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have used open stranded with mucilin on it, fair results but there are better alternatives
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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
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You really aint got a clue have you mate. Why not strip it back 3 inches it will give you a bit more movement at the hookbait which can help the hook turn better. If you are using pop ups you can strip it back 1,2 or 3 inches and have your counterbalance weight on the spot its stripped back to. I use fox cortex alot with 12/15 inch hooklengths stripped back anything up to 4 inches and I catch plenty of good fish. As for the carp laughing at jake I bet they aint laughing as much as I was when yet again on here I read another stupid childish remark.Maybe 3 inches depending how you want to fish3 inches you may as well have it all stripped!
The carp will be laughing at you!
yeah!!!!!!
sorry jez, couldnt help it mate spot on in what you say though, too many people have tunnel vision and cant think for themselves,think that the fish are more likely to be laughing at some of the bloody wonder rigs you see in the comics, which i can see a large contingent of this forum using mate
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Paul, yes they will lose weight but to drop from doubles up down to 4/6lb just aint on mate any carp losing that much weight would be very dead.
lol, also quite likely to look more like a scabard fish unless it found a way to hack a few inches out of its own length
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name doesnt bode well does it
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wherever he swam from I wish him and all his immigrant fishy mates would swim back
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I have also had it snap on me when testing knots
How can steaming it make it a better/stronger hooklink?
i just dont use it anymore i would prefer to not take the risk
have you not been steaming it to tension it up and straighten it up proper mate?? its coated in flouro and needs the heat to hold it straight once out.
Yes mate i have, but that does'nt make it any stronger it just straightens it out,
yeah I know mate, never said it made it stronger, just that it does without doubt make it a better hooklink -
I have also had it snap on me when testing knots
How can steaming it make it a better/stronger hooklink?
i just dont use it anymore i would prefer to not take the risk
have you not been steaming it to tension it up and straighten it up proper mate?? its coated in flouro and needs the heat to hold it straight once out.
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not just you mate, is quite a regular thing with the hybrid which can be a worry. best knot i have found is the rapala knot and forget any swvels, just adjust set up accordingly. got to admit it though mate, once its steamed off proper its a seriously good hookink
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all depends on what kind of water you are fishing, uncoated braids still and always will have there place in fishing regardless of some of the opinions on here (lots of two minute wonders and instant terry hearns) wouldnt advise overcomplicating your rigs just for the hell of it. best advice would be to buy a few spools of different types of hooklength and have a play with rigs in a fish tank to work out what suits your needs best on your water
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Hi Mate,
Welcome to the Forum.
I tend not to use Mono for hooklinks, I prefer the suppleness of Braid and adaptability of Coated Braid. If I start getting low on any hooklink material I make sure I go and purchase some more.
On the occasions I do use Mono hooklinks I basically just use Knotless Knot or the Hookknot tied down the shank (Domhof) and a supple Hair tied on.
The Anchor style rigs with the mono bristles are supposed to prevent the hook being blown out of the Carp's mouth. Not used them much myself. They are a pain in the butt to tie, and I prefer to get the Carp feeding comfortably and so they don't even think about blowing the hook out
totaly agree mate, if you get them feeding confidently on your bait to start with then the simplest of rigs is sufficient and with far less to go wrong.
would not even bother looking at the latest wonder rig wether it be the spaghetti rig ravioli rig or any other italian dish!!! concentrate on bait application first mate
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Fish the river sour there is plenty of biiiiig carp in there and there is also somewhere local that has a ghost carp 40lb+ that has featured in many mags fished for by many top anglers (not sure if its ever been featured at 40+) and is only £45 for the year with plenty of "normal" carp to
its attenborough reserve you need to have a look at mate, the big ghostie was in there but was moved into river with floodwater a few years ago. 500+ acres and plenty of features. lovely lovely water, and if memory serves me right go on with a good food bait and high doseage of honey in each mix
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What hook and hooklenght combination do you find work well for D-rigs?
I have tried tying them with esp ghost, but its too thick to go back through the eye of the hook and its really fiddly to get decent knots.
a mate was telling me he has seen something that kind of crimps these stiff hooklinks instead of tying knots. anyone know about this?
I dont know if anyones used the carp r us riglets but that is the sort of thing im hoping make.
Fox predator range is where you will find them mate. very good peice of kit, highly reccomend them
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what would you use then goblin??
i used to use korda wides but now i have changed to the fox arma points dues to cost effectiveness as they dont go as blunt as quickly - if you take them out of that stupid plastic box
fox armapoints, series5s series 1s and ashima in various patterns depending in the swim i put my house up in on our water. some of the other lads use solars and rate them highly, cant comment as i havent needed to give them a go.
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Fractures in bend of hooks, pitted shanks, splits in eyes and five in ten look like they have been hit with a hammer under the scope. wont touch them
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What are your opinions of the Korda Wide Gapes?
I have read many good opinions but know several anglers that have complained of hook pulls when using them and have gone back to their previous hooks (Gardner and Mugga) and have not lost a fish since.
I am currently using the Korda wide gapes and have caught several fish on them so far. However I recently lost a decent fish after playing it at 60m range for less than 30 seconds. Could it be just one of those things...
I have a carping mate that works in a lab and has access to some pretty high powered microscopes and he does check out his hooks, all i will say is that i wouldnt ever use korda hooks
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merrington is ok, rammed with noddies usually though. get your os map out and look around "norton in hales". and knock on a couple of doors chap. my old stomping ground. well worth the effort, no charge and i know of six different thirties in estate lakes around there and all close to the local boozer too (i used to own it)!!!!
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know just what you mean about "swim pinchers" mate, thats one of a couple of reasons that I have a deep rooted love of the really old estate lakes (as you know). Not too much of a problem on ardingly as its not known for carp, and the fact that all along the estate side (totalling about 145 acres) is not open to anybody. Beauty of it is that Im right in amongst the pheasant pens at the minute too!! (really good with a bottle of red for a very civilised bivvy supper)
:D :Dweed is not very prolific from what I can make out so far, only a couple of fair sized beds.Its very rich in bloodworm though in a few spots. funny you mentioned swan mussels though Nick as Ive stalked two out on them when we first moved down here. i also have a little secret trick for a glug/soak/bag additive/spod mix liquid that has to be seen to be believed. pm me for details fella
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water levels on ardingly have dropped by about 10ft since june mate so you can imagine the problems thats posing at the minute. No gravel at all on the arm Im concentrating on at the second but there are a few hard spots here and there, however these have not been productive in the least.
I am seriously lucky in the fact that I have access to the estate side of the res (thanks to family connections etc) which nobody else gets to, and its at least a 400 yd chuck for anybody else to get in on the action Im seeing at the minute. No prizes for guessing where the fish are stacked up in summer!!!! no angling pressure aside from me this year:D
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Suffolk and Essex, The Badlands? More like if the world ever needed an Enema, where they'd put the needle.
I agree with that mate, definitely no place for chuck and chance.
Although I think that at certain times fish definitely have a preference for a particular depth, and its not always the deepest water in the Reservoir. Up 'til now most of the fish I have caught have been in 6-8feet of water, although due to Personal Life I have not managed to fish for 8weeks, so am a bit out of touch of what is happening.
Other lakes I have fished though I have not caught a Winter fish in much more than 8feet, although not many Lakes around here are much deeper than that. The Reservoir is posing me new problems and difficulties to be overcome;)
are you sure matey????
I saw your fizzog in the angling times a few weeks ago with a nice specimen!!
very hard going on the bigger waters sometimes mate but lets face it, they dont have to be huge [censored]s to be well worth the hours put in bankside. like I said, my best so far has been a mid twenty ( still a fish Im more than happy with,and a fish of a lifetime when I started my carp fishing)
the majority of my takes have been in around twelve feet of water so far on the res, and it has been interesting to say the least with the weather warming up nicely during the day,but the water level is so low at the minute that where there should be a nice shallow marginal shelf to bask on, is now just a frosty bank of silt!!!!
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ay up matey!! long time no speak. Nicks fishing Ardleigh res I think (over in the badlands lol). got a big old patch of water to get stuck into down here mate,and some absolutely cracking estate lakes to myself too!!! Hows sunny shrops these days?? feels like a lifetime since I moved down here
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Del,
Fair Point, getting liners on tight lines and working ''back" to the fish is a way of locating them. Not always at what depth they are at tho;)
Nick,I agree with you to a certain extent but, in this weather they are more likely to be found in the deeper water anyway (other than with a bit of sun hitting a marginal shelf or a shallow bay etc)
Im fishing Ardingly res at the moment and its 200 acres with a small head of not overly big fish (25.3 best to date) this tactic is working on there to a big degree, obviously you have to use watercraft too, cant just chuck and chance on a water that size!!!!!
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esp stiff rig
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