carperjake

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Never used it, is it any option? Is it ok to use with PVA mesh?

Cheers for the replies. I have some soaked and boiled nuts currently soaking in betalin ready for the spring. Casting isn't a problem as I drop from a bait boat with a PVA bag enclosure. I'll be crushing and drying some for PVA bags.

Cheers, I've been using very few tigers as free offerings, less than a dozen on each rod. The fish do spook off large beds of bait so I can imagine if there's a concerted baiting campaign they'll get fed up and avoid tigers in a pretty short space of time, hence why I'm looking for an edge over tigers before they blow. I did well last season on tigers but even better when i crushed them and mixed some hemp in too, as fas as i know no one else tried that so I'll keep on with the same approach but change to a brazil nut as hookbait on one or 2 rods and see what happens.

Cheers, unfortunately I'm not the only one using them, they've been used on and off for years but came into their own last season. But the secret is out now and I've been chatting to a few other members, the consensus seems to be that a lot of them will be fishing tigers next season. I'll carry on with them on one or 2 rods but I reckon that brazils will give me an edge.

Does anyone have a tried and tested brazil nut rig please? I'm looking to move away from tigers next season and fish Brazil's over a small amount of chopped tigers and hemp as a way to stay ahead of the curve, tigers have done well for a couple of seasons but are becoming known so I expect them to blow soon. I'm fishing tigers on a short, stiff D rig with 2 small pieces of ziglite foam and 2 undrilled tigers. Would something similar be viable for Brazils or should I look for something different? TIA

All my fish for the last couple of seasons have come on the same lead set up. 2ft of leadcore, locjaw or safety clip set up, loose tail rubber to an easily discharged lead. I also cut the swivel off most of my leads to give the fish less movement before it hits the weight of the lead, works for me. Simples...................... It's getting harder to find locjaws nowadays and I'll only use a safety clip that can be fixed to the swivel, not being able to secure the swivel in the clip seems to defeat the object of the lead not discharging IMHO. I bought some of the Nash weedy clips recently, stopped using them after 2 casts, on the first cast the lead fell off as it hit the water, the second cast saw the lead come off mid cast! I'm all for fish safety but a lead that discharges on the cast is a bit OTT!

Don't have any pics but I'll see what I can do. Simple explanation: Size 6 hook, not too fussed about make but I do try and use either Gamakatsu G-Point Super or ESP Big T Raptor, usually size 6 with a wafter on the hair or size 4 if I'm using a pop up (I use Krill ATM and find these sizes work best with the buoyancy of their pop ups). I use Jel E Wire for hooklink, strip back 3 inches, tie a loop, pop hookbait on to get separation between bait and hook right, then just knotless knot. I tend to wrap the hooklink around the shank at least 10 times and then another 2 on the other side of the hair, this kicks the hair out from the shank nicely. Then rather than just passing the hooklink thru the eye I wrap it a couple of times back around on the way back to the eye, just adds a bit more strength (in my mind anyway). I tend to fish short links, no more than 6 inches. If I'm using a wafter then I just strip a little of the coating away around an inch from the eye to act as a hinge. I do the same for a pop up but a little nearer the eye and add putty on the stripped back coating. I may use a kicker or heat shrink if the fish are getting away with it. Always use a rig tag end thingy to cover the far end and the swivel, just for neatness. That make sense at all?

We have a Labrador/Poodle cross called Bosley, 7 years old and still a bit bonkers but a real family dog. And a Cavalier King Charles/Bichon Frise cross called Olly, he's 2 and starting to calm down a bit from his mad puppy years although he does have a panchant for muddy puddles, water and fox poo, he's in the bath 2 or 3 times a week! The cat is 14 years old now but you wouldn't know that to look at her, she's in charge of both the dogs!

Didn't Terry Hearn name it that as it was designed to sit on top of the detritus (chod) on the lake bed? The difference between the chod and the helicopter was that the helicopter was mainly used with rig tubing and the rig sat quite close to the lead set up whereas the chod rig was initially set up on lead core and a fair distance (in comparison to the heli rig) from the lead, with the chod rig the lead was set up further away so as not to drag the rig down into the chod with the lead, with the helicopter set up the rig would quite often follow the lead into soft chod thereby masking it.