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I used to use it all the time until my preferred tackle supplier stopped providing it as a freebie with other purchases

that's cool mate

did a couple of years on the Beacon, then Newport Pits (Sherrington) and then Ectons but now fish Great Linford syndicate and MKAA waters with some of the local lads.... you're from round these parts too mate?

got to admit mate, that sounds an aweful lot like a death rig unless there's some other detail that you've omitted i don't think is a death rig, i think is the-now famous- "Shocker Rig",don't you, guys? have just posted I dont think there's an issue after 1daya30 clarified what he meant by fixing a bead to the tubing. end of from my perspective

have a look at the word I highlighted in bold in my first reply... take yourself out of your own head, put yourself in an observers and re-read the post.. it states the bead is fixed to the tubing and now you clarified it isn't, so sounds like there's not an issue p.s. have purposely not reciprocated with exclamation marks mate... calm down, it was only a clarification question on what seemed to be an issue

got to admit mate, that sounds an aweful lot like a death rig unless there's some other detail that you've omitted

Silly12Sally, what hair length do you prefer?

I usually use a drennan micro ring on the hook shank and bait floss loop with an granny knot secured in place with an overhand knot to stop it slipping... I'll hide the knot inside the popup when pulling it through with a baiting needle.. if I'm not sure what height to popup, the size of popup to use or even if I want to use a snowman or double popup... I'll use a variable length hair that requires no hair changing to facilitate any of the aforementioned baiting options... hard to describe but I'll have a go... thread the line through the eye of the hook (just the once with no whipping around the hook shank) and secure it in place with a line aligner made from stiff rig tubing, use a small sliver of the same tubing on the shank blowback styly.. here's the neat bit, instead of using the drennan ring on the hook shank, tie it to the end of the single strand hair using a grinner knot... that's the rig complete and you'll be able to vary the length of the hair by pulling the drennan ring end to increase it or pulling the hooklink end to decrease it.. the key is to use the right internal diameter tubing to match the size of hook... larger eye, use larger diameter tubing, it needs to be a close enough fit so that it provides sufficient tightness to stop the hair slipping on the cast (it's easier than you think)... the drennan ring is just the right size for pulling through the popup with a baiting needle and acts as a bait stop to boot, the sliver of rig tube enables you to adjust the point along the shank from which to popup from as usual. on a take, the hook is pulled along the hair until the drennan ring is pulled back towards the eye eventually pushing the line aligner back up the hooklink and jamming the ring in the eye of the hook.. sounds dodgy, but I've not lost a fish yet due to a problem associated with the ring pressing against the hook eye and I've had fish over 40lbs on this rig...... please note, I've specified drennan rings throughout as they are made from circular metal so won't severe the line when under pressure... other manufacturer's use flattened metal (think the fox one's are like this).. a diagram or photo would have been better but a bit tired froma hard days graft at work so it aint going to happen tonight

for the life of me, I can't recall the name of the Danish base but will try and dig it out.. it was in the early 80's so a good few years back.... was based in Wildenrath at the time but popped over to Brugen, Rhinedalen and Jever quite often.. never really did much fishing out there, 19 years old and had my eye on other things, especially when in Norway and Denmark.. yummy oh yer.. the Norwegian base was near Fredrikstad or something like that

Hi and welcome to the forum... I've fished Denmark and Norway in the early 80's in my RAF days and only managed Pike.. we were fishing from canoe's in the Fjord's though... awesome place but didn't look very carpy

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