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That is part of my view about leaders. They are only suitable for fishing if there is no weed or snags that can get tangled up and tether within. I have long said that tackle companies often bring out tackle that is not safe or suitable for fishing, but only to make money for them. Solar tackle do sell PVA bag/mesh clips, they can actually be attached to an inline or pendant set-up not just a helicopter style lead. http://www.solar24-7.co.uk/baitshop/advanced-rig-gear55cdd7abe430c/product/qcbs-quick-change-pva-bag-system

Maize is our UK term, corn is USA term, both refer to maize I think you will find. Unfortunately we tend to stick in the US term instead of the actual name we understand.

Ok, warning to you, DO NOT use any lead system other than a helicopter set-up with Leadcore, and preferably don't use Leadcore at all, it only takes 6inches to be able to catch and snag if a fish swims around a twig, stick or root. Leadcore with an inline system, run ring or pendant lead clip is a recipe for disaster in the event of a break-off. Please don't think I am scaremongering, I used to use Leadcore, but advice from people on here, a lost fish that I left towing a leader, and having to get into the lake to release a snagged fish while I was experimenting with Leadcore setups to prove or disprove made me totally change my mind, and now I will never use it. Basically as far as I'm concerned Leadcore has no place in carp fishing.

It took me a while as I have been trying to update rig threads on the forum, but this may help you:

The next rig is a line aligned stiff rig with a hair made from soft braid. I have used Gardner Trick link in 20lb as the hooklink material. Being a stiff rig it really does prevent tangles, and can be used for long distance casting with no worries. To get it as straight as I have I have steamed the hooklink as I shrunk the tubing. I find this rig will lay itself flat and straight, and on the pick-up you want the fish to hook itself.

For those in Suffolk I thought I would put forward this little venue, of 2 lakes and a couple of stock ponds (no fishing), of mixed species, some nice roach, tench, carp and bream. I will give warning though, there are crayfish present though, and at least one big eel, of about 4lb, which was discovered munching them in a crayfish trap. The two fishable lakes are Willow and Horseshoe. Willow is basically rectangular, with an island separating the two sides, and the carp go to around 14lb as well as the other species. Horseshoe got its name as it is or correctly was basically Horseshoe shaped, however it has recently been extended slightly, a bay dug out leaving an island. The largest carp landed has been weighed at over 25lb, with another couple of 20's, although most are around 7lb. Working baits are obviously boilies, Sweetcorn, maize and pellet, although they do love a floating bait. At one end is the boathouse, and you can only fish from the central section, pegs run along the right hand bank of the centre point. The far bank is no more than 15metres away at its furthest. The other side you are fishing from the main bank towards the centre section, although towards the point you can be opposite someone. Another warning, a couple of swims do have crayfish traps attached to the stagings by cup hooks. Do not move them, or I will kill you The bailiff, Maurice, or owner Jon Hudson comes round to collect day ticket money on the bank. I will put the website up, but it is hopefully about to be rebuilt http://www.bromeswell-lakes.net/index.htm

Try this: http://www.anglianwater.co.uk/leisure/water-parks/taverham/fishing/ I used to fish Taverham years ago, and I have done a complete write up on the venue: The lake description is a post on that thread

Making pop-ups. I do make my own special pop-up hookbaits with a special flavour combination that has worked well for me. I work on a 1 egg mix with the flavours, oils and attractors as a 6 egg quantity. For pop-ups I do use Mainline Polaris or Richworths Pop-up mix, dependant on which is easily available. A 1 egg mix lasts me usually a whole year. So added to 1 egg is 5ml of Ultraspice Flavour, 2.5ml Verselle Laga Garlic Oil, 20ml Marine 17 liquid and 10ml Tunamino liquid, and the whole lot is whisked together and the base mix gradually added until it is stiff enough to roll. As I said a 1 egg mix produces enough pop-ups for a whole year, this year I rolled a load of 20mm and some 14mm baits. I boil the baits in boiling water for 1minute and then leave to dry overnight, before adding a bit of extra liquid. The 20mm I added a touch of red dye in with the extra liquids.

Shrink tube continued down the shank, and not stripping the coating off the braid on the hair apart from a small hinge where it leaves the hook

To me that is what the hair rig is for, to allow the bait to be sucked in, it has reset itself. I try to make my hairs so that the hair won't tangle on being moved. A braided hooklink can be fished tight (although why would you intentionally pull back to straighten it?), slack, coiled or loose. If the bait is moved, as it is sucked in, the hooklink being braided, it can turn round on the bait being taken in.

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Not really for me, simple reason being I have seem silver fish move the rig, the hook and bait away from the contents of the bag. If I have got the whole feeding situation and baited area right the boilie is picked up as 'oops I missed one'. I normally fish a whole bag as over a baited area, not usually on its own.

This Thread is a Guide to the Knotless Knot and Basic Rigs Here is the Knotless Knot as used for many basic Rigs, also a set up that can be used to create a pop-up rig. It is as simple as attaching a hook with a knotless knot, and in many or even most cases, simple is best. There are sometimes when a rig needs to be slightly upgraded and by adding a Line Aligner then you can create a more aggresive hooking angle These simple rigs can be adapted for Braids, Nylon, fluorocarbons and Coated Braids, and used for bottom baits or pop-up rigs.

You don't have to use an inline lead, honest I use run rings, with solid bags, and no leaders, although braid or coated braid hooklinks do help. Lead clips with solid bags can discharge the lead, but run rings don't. Hookbait in bottom corner, put freebies in bag, then hooklink, more free pellets, then lead. Lick and twist around mainline or tubing if you use it. Try this :

If you mould them around a corkball for pop-ups don't boil them for any more than 45 seconds. The base mix will expand and then leave a gap between corkball and boilie skin. You can air dry them for as long as you want, but don't over cook. In the ratios Hutch has recommended try Ground Trout pellet Baileys Number One Semolina Soya Flour Finely Ground Pigeon Conditioner I guarantee it works as that is the bait a mate of mine was using for a few years very successfully.

I confess to being a lazy git, so I nearly always leave waterproofing until I am on the bank. Check the weather, dry day and a can or two of Fabsil, bivvy up and spray.

Same here, I got loads from work, although as I flogged a load on ebay I am now down to my last carrier bag full I think.

Tin hat time... Please don't get me started on Korda Kra... Seriously for years I used black tulip beads, black run rings, although now I'm using khaki coloured run rings. My leads are a flecked green, or brown, or grey, my hooklink swivels are black, although I must insist that some tackle manufacturer makes me a khaki green and brown flecked swivel... You think how many carp were caught on John Roberts rig beads, stiff tubing and uncoated leads, with a length of black Dacron and a bright shiny Drennan Super Specialist hook.

Something different: A coated braid hooklink, Snakebite, line aligned hook, with sliding rig ring on shank stopped from sliding round the bend by rubber stop. I can then attach hair myself, to the length I want/need, usually with a snowman bait on it, a wooden ball topped with a meshed pop-up.

Combi-rig; Amnesia to Kryston Merlin with line aligner, and I have used what looks like ArmaKord as the hair to avoid crayfish cutting it off. I was extending the Merlin, but found the loops were getting frayed as Crays played with the hookbaits.

Buy a different brand? I noticed in tests that Korda hooks lost their points very easily, they are so soft. The water you are fishing can even blunt the point, not running it over gravel, the acidity or alkalinity of the water itself, it seems to be silty lakes more I think. On Nazeing a mate and I used to 'swap' rigs, our tackle boxes were open season, and I grabbed a rig tied with a Korda hook from his rig bin when I had showing fish in my swim, yet failed to hook one. I was sure I had had pickups, I changed back to the Gardner Mugga's I was using at the time and within minutes had a decent fish on the bank. He had also been blanking, yet when I gave or tied on one of my rigs on his rods he converted the same indications into fish on the bank. I am against the grain on sharpening hooks, I think if it's not sharp enough out the packet then buy a make that is. I often check and change the rig after each fish, but check the rig every cast anyway. If I think the point is gone I change it. That is what the ball of my thumb is for, checking the hook point!

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And if I do delete accidentally I do try to pm the person concerned with what happened Is it possible to put it through a solution of washing up liquid and water? I honestly do not know if that will work though. I always make sure I get floating or sinking dependant on requirements, and buy from a good source.

There were 2 identical threads, I deleted one, didn't notice any posts on the other, so may have deleted them in error.

I think that is the correct way to do it. I'm right handed, and have always used fixed spools with the handles on the left. For multipliers I have the handle on the right, and on top of the rod for sea, spinning or pike fishing