carpingod150

I have seen fish trailing leadcore etc. but it's just the idiots who don't know how to use it. You shouldn't use it unless you are 100% sure of how to use it safely and properly. It can be made unsafe, in the same way rig tubing can, by the idiots that put a swivel behind the tubing, but IMO, companies should show better how to use the stuff! The new Solar stuff is good, comes with instructions etc, but I use the ESP leadcore, and it's brilliant stuff! I feel more fish will be damaged by mainline lifting scales from people that don't use tubing or leadcore, and in my experience, the people harping on about fishcare at the rig end are the ones that are worst when they get the fish on the bank! I once talked to a bloke for half an hour, about the importance of breakaway leads and rig components, only to see him, 5 minutes later, put a 12lb carp on a wooden platform to unhook it, and then throw it back, from the comfort of his chair! The mainline will break anyway, as it's weaker than the leadcore, but it will still have the same pressure exerted upon it if a fish does go for the snags! Another thing about lead clips, what happens if you crack off, and a fish takes the bait, hooking itself in the process, it'll end up trailing your hooklink, lead, leader/tubing, and X amount of line! This is why, 90% of the time, I use running leads, or helicopter rigs with a weak link of 3lb nylon tied to the lead. However, if I do use lead clips, I use the ESP ones, which I've had 4-5lb carp on, and when they shake their head, it discharges the lead! Which, I think is great, because, as I said before, if you crack off, it'll leave an effective rig on the lakebed, whereas with the ESP clips, the fish can just shake their head to lose the lead I'd rather lose a 50p lead than kill a fish, any day of the week.

Kryston mantis the best

from the korda site

the braid scissors are kept sharper so the ends of the braid will be cut cleanly, instead of fraying (I keep 2 pairs of scissors too, but that's just because I can never find them )

yeah I guess. But 4 fish off! I was using about 5" inch long mantis hooklinks with a line aligner

well i brought it in from about 50 yards, so i think the hookhold was ok

this happened to me the other day, using wide gapes aswell. I lost 4 fish near to the net! I hadn't just slackened the line or was putting too much pressure on it, just reasonable pressure and the hook just popped out!

this is the needle knot... http://www.dynamitebaits.com/index.php?id=717&usergroup=carp And the figure of 8 knot is just where you make a loop knot in your mainline, then a loop in the leadcore, and pass the leadcore through the line knot, and put t'other end of the leadcore through the spliced loop It's hard to explain lol

Is it better to use a needle knot or a figure of 8 loop knot to attach mono to leadcore at the reel end??? Cheers

Has anyone actually used this??? IN the catalougue kevin nash can't stop going on about how great it is, but i'm not too sure. Surely it can't give you that much of an advantage???

lol i'll try that one when i get some new mantis lol

yeah but TBH the inner braid of mantis green and gold sticks out like a sore thumb if you look at it on the bottom of most lakes and the korda stuff is supposed to be pretty camo'd up so i'm not sure

Been using mantis gold for a while now, and am reasonably happy with it, but have heard good things about the korda fluurocarbon coated braid, and was wondering if I should switch. Don't want to buy the korda stuff and not like it, but I need some new coated braid, as the mantis is running out. They're abou the same price, so this doesn't make a difference. Thanks

just get a lenght of light mono, double up the ends, push it through the eye, slide your braid into the loop and pull through