dave_2133

Fair enough we all have concerns about stuff but you can easily test its strength by pushing something through the finished loop and pulling hard on it. Once you've made a few you wont look back. The bulk spool of esp stuff is very good it seems to blend with everything very well tbh and is supple and the lead itself doesnt fragment and come out the side as it does with other brands. You might get through a few splicing needles whilst learning - just be patient with it and you find a technique to pulling it through itself. I think i'll have to buy some over the weekend and take a few days to practice. The Maver premade ones always shot the lead out of the side. I'll get my rig making hands on at the weekend i think

Tell me about it, i might start and make my own because i make everything else myself bar the leadcore. As well you can say that you landed that fish on YOUR rig and not a pack one but then on the other hand if something snapped then your the only one to blame. I always thought like fishingaddict.

I always buy the pre made ones from Maver, only because of the fear that if i made it wrong then the carp will drag it around until the hook came out.

I use it for when there is debris on the bottom or as tonybranno said if there is a layer of silt.

I have about 10 made up but i always find that i make a fresh 1 up everytime i fish. I think it just me thinking that an old rig will snap on me, so i make a fresh 1 just to be sure.

Do you fish this rig as pop-ups or bottom baits.