neilscatchin

Unless used with the right material the crimps slip very easily

I've found the best rig for pop ups IMO is to tie a stiif hinge rig using coated braid and just stripping back about 2cm at the hinge position.

Yes and it works.Have side hooked "bait" on a modified "new" rig for extremely wary carp and they've been nailed everytime.Hookbait looked way too obvious but I was somewhat taken aback by the response

If it's fished correctly the float is only held in place by silicone tubing and requires minimal pressure to free it.

It looks about unobtrusive as a virgin in a maternity ward

Ditto me too,Sand and Gravel colouring and my tackle shop still has quite a few spools left

Should do.I sent back 19.90 metres of PVA 4 season micromesh that was still intact after 24 hours in the water!! To be fair they replaced it but I steer clear of their products now wherever possible.Problems with wide gape hooks,PVA and Hybrid due to being unable to cope with demand generated by underwater DVDs and sourcing inadequate alternative suppliers. I always found if you actually put the Hybrid in boiling water using forceps obviously it softened the fluorocarbon coating to suffiently strip it back just using my nails.

Try using the search bar as suggested in the post second from the top.There are loads and loads of threads suggesting the pros and cons of using leadcore including illustrations and instructions of how to use it safely and constructing rigs.

If you steam the whole length it will straighten the Hybrid out as it's well curly.It will keep in a rig wallet as straight as it cools and stripping back creates a hinge rig.Ideally you want enough to give the bait flexibilty to waft into the carps mouth but leaving the coating on will create a different rig perhaps giving the carp something they've never seen before.

I'll second that.It's more adhesive than the rest of the brands.Once on it won't slide along your hooklength.

All the time.It's kind of hard to get your head round at first but once you start to pick up fish it'll become a important part of your armoury.Far too few people fish with it still despite it's well publicised success prefering to sit behind static bottom baits.Best place to start is if I'm using 3 rods,fish each one at a different depth until you find which depth they're at.

Try now I c**ked up lol

http://www.carp.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=11501&highligt Look here

As Jemsue says it's far easier for short stiff rigs than trying to tie knots on 3 inch Stiff Bristle with fat fingers.If not crimped correctly they have a tendancy to slip but with every other rig I'd stick with knots IMO.

My apologies if this subject has been breached recently but I've been away for quite a while.I fished last weekend at my local lake much the same as normal but using a new rig coupled with a 2 inch PVA stick.I cast out as normal on Friday night leaving the rigs out until early afternnon Saturday.On reeling in I was horrified to discover that the PVA had only melted about the size of a 5p piece and that the stick was still enveloping the hooklink and bait. I'm utterly disgusted how Korda can market this PVA as 4 seasons as the weather was nowhere near as cold as it has been.The sticks weren't made up until needed to halt the oil preventing the melting process.This is yet another Korda failure!! I hope reading this will stop this happening to you. Any suggestions for good PVA mesh for this time of year most welcome.

It takes a great deal of confidence to fish with hooklinks of this size when your used to fishing 8-14" as standard length.But you'll be surprised just how confident takes will be especially when fished in conjunction with a bolt rig.As with everything they have their time and place,sometimes outfishing longer hooklengths when longer at other times may be better.

There is no "best" hooklink to use,each one has different applications.But if I had to choose 1 it'd be Camo Skin with a spool of Double Strength for surface fishing. Another satisfied customer :rolleyes:

I use Subterfuge too.The problem with fluorocarbons is they're designed to be stiffer than mono and the majority of fluoros didn't use to be pure.The only ones that were pure were Gardner Subterrfuge and Korda IQ,the problem with impure fluorocarbon was that it's brittle and it's breaking strain is under the manufacturers stated b/s. Fluoro has great anti ejection/tangle properties so if you want a flimsy hair ,you're gonna have to use a seperate one made from either hair braid or floss.Maybe use Korda Hybrid,a flurocarbon coated braid and just strip the coating off the hair for a flexible hair,the rest will remain as stiff as fluoro with almost the same invisiblity.

Why not this rig is just as effective in weed as silt,just because it was orginally used for fishing in silt,it has other applications as well.Personally I think this is the best rig for fishing in weed as it allows you to fish a popped up bait above any depth of weed,keeping your hook/hookbait free to do it's intended job.

Gardner Muggas or Incizors(short and longshank) strong,sharp and reliable.

The Withy Pool rig is no more a "bent" hook rig than the line aligner and is a very effective rig for pop ups when used correctly.It's like Beanz says basically it's a hook with a 180 degree curve of shrink tubing weighted either on the end of the tubing or on the braid to counterbalance/criically balance a pop up. Personally I'd only use it where the fish have "wised" up to regular pop up rigs as it may be over complicating things on a runs water.Looks crude and ineffective but I guarantee you 99% of bites are converted to strong hookholds bang in the middle of the bottom lip.

Try doing a search in the rig tying section.There's several threads about Hybrid in there.

As above tightening over steam will help it bed in better and blobbing the tag end will leave a secure blob to prevent it pulling through.

Leadcore inner coiled tightly round the hooklink and then mould your heavy metal around that.

Everyone has their own opinions.Personally I don't think that using it will improve my fishing with maggots,you may do and that's your perogative.It's just another thing for them to charge the angler more money to use and to be fair there isn't that much they can do to improve maggot rigs or presentation.