this thread has just blone me away i must of read it four times! some of the comments on here especially off ripslider on page oneare brilliant. this has just mad me totaly change my approach to fishing.
but i think that complicated rigs have been made to do a certain job, such as the withy pool rig was developed to make a harder to eject rig. i think that at first on a unfished water we shud use the simplist rig possible then when the carp wise up slighlty change the rig, may be add a bit of strink tubing. as each rig gets wised up to this is when we change rigs over to give another new option to the carp. but i do beleive that rigs are devleoped and invented to over come a problem. withy 4 its anti eject properties the chod and the helipcopter to be able to fish in silt .
i dont think they are made to fill magazine pages. but to solve a situation and to fool the carp. when i fish i fish the simplist way possible i fish the more complicated rigs when the simpler ones wont catch, but 9 times out of ten the simplist comes out on top for me. shaun