grangemilky

What braid is it?

I've always used a simple overhand loop with braid. Very small knot, and in my experience very strong., never had one fail. figure of 8 loop is a tad stronger, but a little more bulky, but I've never seen the need. Simple loop knot shoupd be more than sufficient.

I wouldn't worry about the rig, as long as you use the right hooks, its no less safe than any other rig. The mouth damage myth is from I mentioned earlier the hook eye getting caught in landing net mesh, a problem that is easily solved. I wouldn't class the 360 as complicated at all, in fact its pretty simple. It works on the same basis as a chod...no matter which way the fish approaches the hook can touch the bottom lip, and spin round and take hold. Simple as it gets!

Free lined Side hooked corn :8

Anything you don't have confidence in, never catches, I don't know why. But not everything works for everyone. I think the golden day of the chod has passed, its a big clubsy rig, and I think most fish can easily deal with it now.

Yes, a fantastic rig in the right situation. As long as you use a seamless hook or put shrink tube over the eye! Else it can get caught in the landing net mesh and cause horrific damage.

You use a curved chod style hooklink and a bottom bait? If you are catching fish fair enough, but surely the mechanics of that rig just don't add up, what kind of hookholds do you get? Edit: you said in the bottom lip, I can't help but think there are a lot more efficient bottom bait rigs. The curve on a chod link, is there so as a pop up rig, no matter what direction the fish approaches from the rig will bump round and spin the hook towards the fish. I would suggest as a bottom bait, you are only getting pick ups from fish approaching from one direction, and its costing you fish.

Rigs left to right....IQ2 combi link to merlin loop attached to the hook aka multi rig. Rig ring connected to an stiff fluro hair. Normally fished with a 14mm bottom and half a 10mm pop up. Armalead kickback (does this still exist? Almost finished my last spool and need a replacement!) Straight through knotless knot. Kryston merlin kd style on a covert mugga. On very clean bottoms only, shot on the hair pop up.

My bottom/snowman bait rigs. Two as simple as it gets, one a complex as it gets

Yes you can use a long shank hook, but you will have to think about how you tie the D. A whipping knot down the shank opposite the bend, round to a knottless knon makes a devistatingly difficult to eject rig.

I did a winter on unflavoured baits once. Honestly, I think the flavour is just there to help the angler choose.

Plastics shouodnbe completely unflavoured IMO. Part of the attraction is that the are not food.

I think your idea of the hook pointing upwards out of the water will definetely work. I think this is what I'm aiming for. But I don't know whether they will go for a foam disguise as a pellet. I will try anyway. If I know which side of the pellet face down the water will much easier. and if I put a very small lead on one side, I'm not sure whether it still afloat. From my rig, the size of hook i'm using, if I attach onto the pellet. the whole thing will float. that have been tested. Anyway I will do some test trial to made the pellet float the way I wanted it to be. thanks mate. The rubber bit on my hook shank is to cover the braided lines which coils around it . This rig is one of few which teach on how to rig pellet for carp in you tube. I would ditch the rubber myself. It seems to serve little purpose. Less is more! As for the foam, I you look about online, if you can get delivery, you should be able to buy imitation floating rubber pellets identical to what you use.

If they are hooks shy....try get a piece o foam the same size an colour as your pellets. Put the hook through one side, and weight the other size with shot, or lead, so that it floats with the hook pointing upwards out of the water. What's that rubber bit on your hook shank?

Giant Travelly.

Why style of hook is that? Any pictures of your rig. Size 1 is HUGE compared to what most of us would use. What size pellets are you using?

Unless you are using a huge hook, I wouldn't say they are seeing it. Its more likely the line they can see. What type, and what diameter line are you using?

Even Ahmead has a website like that, and I would be dead 4 times over before I got the the end of the waiting list....and my application screwed up. No harm in showing off what bthey got and drumming up interest for years to come :thumbs:

Braid is a million times thinner than mono, so it doesnt get effected as much by drag on the fast flowing water. To put it in perspective, I use a low diameter mono for my mainline, its 0.29mm thick, pretty thin for a 12lb mainline....the braid on my marker rod breaks at almost double the strain, it is 0.06mm thick.

Habit I guess. I don't think they are always a huge benefit, but they are rarely a hindrance. They are a simple solution to connecting two lines together, with the added benefit that tey may stop your hooklink sitting at an awkward angle. I see there to be very minimal pro's to not using one, and very little cons to using them. By them odds, I'd say its best to stick with a swivel.

Yes, exactly that. Simple is best. Braided mainline, rod tips high in the air, simple running rig, with a mono hooklink.

I rarely use anything but, unless fishing at range. Lead clips leave so much room for movement, I just don't see why people are so obsessed! If you use a coated braid, or something stuff as a hooklink, I wouldn't worry about tangles, and just fish it naked, if you use a soft braid I would suggest using anti tangle tubing. Other than that, as simple as you like set up, with absolute direct contact between lead and fish as soon as the bait is picked up, no daft swivels and lead clip noncence.

Just because you have 50kg of bait, doesn't mean you have to use it.

Your right, i did say that, tha majority of my time is spent on sub 24h sessions, however, occasionally, with the correct written request, I am allowed to do longer, and at te right time of the year I will always try to carry at least 4kg per 24hr. I don't buy expensive bait, to allow me to do it. Yes I don't always use it, and will often bait up when I leave, but never in the sight of other anglers, and sometimes even bait in a 'safe' area, just to keep them on my bait. Does it help? Who knows, but I am much happier always carrying too much bait than not enough. I know of a certain very experienced angler and bait maker fishing a day ticket water around my parts who has been known to use 15kg per day session! As for the wrong un's bit, I couldn't agree more, however catching a French carp in France is different to catching a French carp in the UK. I am tempted to go to France this year, but just to be treated as a holiday.

Wouldn't you? I would, many many others would, not to mention he is probably fishing for much bigger fish in much bigger quantities. I once spilt 2k of boilies on my garage floor, and spread out, its absolutely nothing.