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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=716207145078053&set=a.102753973090043.6360.100000663214403&type=1 St. Christophe sounds so much nicer. Its the Korda muppets who renamed it

An older thread on Orchid, including a post by the manager of the site: http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=51168&highlight=orchid+lake

Plain straight braided hooklink, knotless knotted, as per standard hooklink, and simply put a piece of cork between 2 Tiger nuts. Can fish it pooped up, or as a slow sinking or balanced hookbait, you can trim cork or nuts to suit. Or if popped up, use coated braid, and remove the coating to the height you want popped up bait, then cover the end in putty. http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=55800

When I first saw her approaching the net when I hooked her, you get the shivers knowing it is 20+. I had to laugh when Colin was expecting me to say around 16 as he had never seen a pike that size before. I just put my finger to my lips in a shush motion, like you do to kids. Col was feeling guilty that he had landed a fish that I wanted, but I told him that I had my chance, and fluffed it, whereas he hit and played it perfectly. I had no upset that he has now landed a pike 3lbs bigger than my largest, and I am extremely happy for him, which I think he feels difficult to understand, but I am just so chuffed for him. Maybe I should take up and become an angling guide

Any use? http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=57775

well I now know exactly how big the pike I lost last week was! I took my friend Colin for his first ever pike trip yesterday, and on his 2nd cast with a smelt on the float rod he landed a 9lb pike, a very tentative take, that the float merely twitched on. He wasn't sure about it, so I told him to hit it. A very scrappy pike then surfaced, and had taken the bait very confidently on the spot, and was for such a take, deeply hooked About 3 hours later he flicked a ledgered smelt under the tree to the left and within 20minutes had another indication of 3 bleeps, which he hit quickly and played himself a decent pike to the landing net. As I lifted the net under it, I could only laugh and he couldn't work out why. When I lifted it onto the mat, there was around 6feet of my line that had some very large abrasion rubs across it, and my trace in the corner of its mouth, which I managed to remove easily, although his trace was very deep and in the stomach. I immediately cut t he line from his rod, so that attached to the trace was just a foot length of line, and no rod hanging around. An over officious bailiff then started to make life very awkward. I have unhooked goodness knows how many deep pike, and always found that even with a big fish, a small pair of forceps I can free deep hooked fish by going in carefully through the gill rakers, someone gently pull the line/trace, and I can unhook the trebles with no damage. I had the bailiff telling me I should go in the front, with a pair of long noses, which with my head looking at what I was doing, my left hand holding the mouth open in the gill flaps the other side and astride the fish on the unhooking mat, and my mate gently holding the line to prevent it going back in as far as I was concerned was not an option. I also had him telling me to pull the fish backward and forward in the margins to flush it through! I unhooked and sorted, weighed it and got a mat picture within 3 minutes, which with an extra trace in, I reckon is acceptable, and when I held it in the margins for release, she swam away strongly I really feel for Colin as it was the fish of a lifetime, and his 2nd ever pike at 24lb, I could not get a decent picture as the bailiff was so panicky, and he wouldn't let Colin lift it for a pic.

I went down yesterday and last week, and I will say that there is a serious litter problem that the bailiff doesn't seem to have yet overcome. While I agree that his concern in fish care, being a bailiff also includes litter picking and emptying the darn bins.

Knotless knot in mono can part, the hook eye can rub over the knot and break, so check it before every cast. If I do use a mono hooklink, then it is often the same mono as the mainline, but I do also have Amnesia, Berkley XL or Drennan Fly Leader The occasional problem with mono hairs is that they can be too stiff, therefore I would tie the hook on, and then go back to a finer more supple (thinner) hair, either dental floss, 4lb mono or a Kryston/ESP hair material. As for avoiding tangles with braided hooklinks, some occur as you pick up the lead on reeling in, the hooklink has fallen around the lead, then as you reel in, it just tightens around the lead. Ways to avoid tangles; a wet hooklink avoids trapped air, so sinking better. Always feather the cast, to throw the hooklink forward. The use of PVA, stringers and bags. Obviously the whole hooklink in the bag (and the lead), stringers attached to just the hook, or even stringers attached to the hook, and the hooklink swivel near the lead. Another possible is the use of a anti tangle rubber over the mainline/hooklink join, effectively the same as the tail rubber you use to cover the swivel/quick link as per: or even just stiffening the hooklink near that mainline join, superglue or stiffening material as like this stuff: http://www.kryston.com/products-redone/super-stiff/ http://www.kryston.com/products-redone/styx/

Notice on FB today 16th February:

micro swivel or bait screw make the rig so much easier to tie, but i dont think either way effect the effectiveness of the rig...with the exception of weight! And with a pop-up, maybe a swivel could be the way to add some weight to hold the pop-up down, but that is worth a thread in itself (Pop-ups and how they behave under water may be worth looking at ) As for the bait screw, I have always worried about piercing the skin of a pop-up, so I have tied mine on for many years

This is one of the books that whenever it comes into the Library, I borrow. I read and re-read it as many times as possible.

I have only just read this book, and I'm sad to say I was a bit disappointed. I know it is a book about the captures of some big carp, and I know it is a compiled from writings of other anglers, but I felt a bit let down in most of the content. And like others I felt the mention of some of the bad practices in fishing came up as well, which disturbed me. I know no angler is an angel, but don't big up your misbehaviour or excessive time you spend on the bank that caused your relationship with your girlfriend to break down. I know that fishing is fishing, and we are coarse fishing, but I found some of the language from some of the writers a bit coarse itself. I do not need reminding of the swear words that there are in the English language. Also it kind of takes away from the being able to give it to the younger anglers of today as I would not give it to a carp angler under his teenage years because of that. Also there were so many chapters on Yateley this, Yateley that, Heather, Arthur, Dustbin etc, that it felt too much. However, as much as that disappointed me, I did enjoy Ritchie Macdonalds chapter on the Royal Park 40, and Martin Lockes chapter on catching Sally from Savay

I use a small rig ring and apply pop ups with an avid bait screw , great little things By the look of it nick uses rings as well Nick , how are you tying a snowman to the D ? The bait is tied onto the rig ring with a fine piece of nylon, hair braid or dental floss, I've been using 4lb Mono for a few years now. To tie the bait on I tie a Uni knot loop at the end of a piece of nylon and thread in a Pop-up and then pull tight. I then put a bottom bait on the hair and tie it to the sliding rig ring. If to use it for pop-ups then instead of adding a bottom bait you can just tie on that pop-up.

Don't tell anyone, but it is a capital D, for D-rig Something to do with the shape of the hook and the attachment of the hooklink continuation Coated Braid D-rig Works with mono, fluorocarbon, stiff link, braid and coated braid. The D-rig was the next step on from the basic hair at Savay, designed I believe by Roger Smith (while Rod Hutchinson was coming up with his version of the sliding/extending hair rig). It makes a good set-up for pop-ups, snowman baits, and I have also used it successfully with bottom baits on Taverham

Alternatively have a sliding rig ring on the shank with a bead or stop to stop it sliding round the bend and off the hook, and attach your soft material hair to that

I've brought this back from the Abyss, as I was going through my photobucket and found a couple of rig pics I took on a lake. It is not the most coloured water, yet even up close and personal, it is almost impossible to see the actual rig underwater. I know the hookbaits are easily visible, I know that on one it is possible to see the tubing, and looking carefully, the lead. These pics may have been taken in the margins, but just how visible is the rig out in the main lake where the water is deeper and visbility not so clear. Is the main lake going to be so clear in gravel as it is in the top picture? As an add, from the top picture, I did actually catch a carp from that spot!

A simple rig ring will work, as would a standard quick link. A swivel is used for the ease of attaching the line at either end, and it sure as heck doesn't prevent line twist or allow the swivels to spin freely Swivels also make for good locking deviices, locking the lead clip, locking the inline lead to a swivel is easy

As simple as you can get, although I used to use braid where the River Gipping was quite slow. An inline lead, braided hooklink, knotless knotted and line aligned. As much of my fishing was up close and personal on such a small river I was able to lower the lead and rig in with no worry about tangles. On areas I had to cast, then a PVA bag kept it tangle free

Being as the Match lake is only fished during the day, other than fish being moved occasionally between the 2 at night, it didn't get the problems of the Main/Specimen Lake. It holds a fair number of 'match size' carp, some roach and bream and maybe a perch or 2

Okey cokey, being as it is 'my area' and I know a bit about the whole complex. Breakaway Melton had problems in the past with drug users, dealers and the bailiff, tackle thefts etc all being 'inter-related'. This bailiff was ejected, and the replacement was very quick to stamp his authority in an attempt to bring things right, but unfortunately this upset a number of the idiots who carried on causing grief, so the new bailiff then quit. He has since been replaced by a gentleman, who I know reasonably well, who will put you right, and tell you if you are wrong! However there are still the occasional idiots fishing Melton as it is day ticket. I posted this on another thread around November time: You have the choice, as it is a water I fish a bit, and would like to continue fishing, I would hope that you are able to make your choice from this. It is a nice venue, with some nice fish, it has had troubles, but is hopefully on the way up, and if I ever meet you on there, I can only hope that you find what I have said the truth and we can have a chat.

And why didn't I think of that Possibly cos of the worry of finding the hole after, but considering I bell the end of the plastic inserts on inline leads in that manner to hold the sleeve on, I should know better

Solar did do the http://www.solartackle.co.uk/products/rig-gear?ptitle=bullet-buffer-beads_159 to fit their gear, but rubber tulip beads also work: http://www.tacklebox.co.uk/terminal-tackle/beads/anchor-rubber-tulip-beads.html I found that occasionally all of the tubing pulls out of the beads (hence part of my choice for going naked, but these beads seem to work best and take most tubing. I suppose it is possible to safely glue the tubing into the bead, (the run ring will ensure the lead is able to come off, and in the event of a mainline snap it usually goes at the hooklink swivel) but then the tubing after a while will possibly crack at the bead.

In the link, I know the bottom pic shows my rig length and make-up. That is not to say it is right or wrong, but I prefer to have two thirds of the length being the stiff material. I know others have different feelings on that.

Don't know if anyone is interested in the Traditional Lake at Suffolk Water Park: http://www.suffolkwaterpark.co.uk/the-lakes/traditional-lake