nigewoodcock

Can't find the one for the actual chod section but the following contains a good bit of information and ideas from a few members: http://www.carp.com/topic/14126-chod-chod-chodyy-chod-chods-rant-and-rigs/

Palomar knot is a mare to tie with stiff material. The only time I use a grinner is in stiff filament. I tend to just do a two or three turn. Its so stiff, it wont slip. My favorite knot for chods though is a figure of eight or the perfection loop. Gives the rig so much more ease of movement.

I'll have a look in a bit. Just got to go and muck the horses out and put the beds down.

If you still can't get the curve right. Hold the tied rig around a round object; a pice of pipe insulation/lag is ideal. Then steam over a kettle for a short while. You can store your rigs like this as well. This will help have an ideal 'bend' to your rig. Mine are almost straight. Just a slight curve.

One little tip. The stiff material you use for chod sections has a natural curve to it as it comes off the spool. Use this to your advantage when positioning the hook before you start your turns on the knot less knot?

Yep, didn't look at the replies, both posts had one in so just deleted one at random.

Do they allow nights on there?

Oh, I ain't afraid of no goats either. Well, except maybe billy the kid!!! Lol

Ian, next time your at merrington, ask luke to tell you about the strange goings on at one of his syndicate lakes.

Haha!

Cheers moose. A bit late though! Lol http://www.carp.com/topic/19925-churn-pool-august-2014/

As a few of you are aware, a couple of us will be on Churn pool at the weekend. The place is infested with cray fish and as I'm sat at home tying up the rig I feel will combat them, I was wondering what the rest of you would do. I want to fish a bottom bait, which will be meshed and hardened. It's more the actual rig that I'm talking about. So that's the only constraint, a bottom bait rig. What would you want it to do? How would you like it to behave? What characteristics would you want in the rig? I have taken pictures of what I have decided on and will post up either before I leave or when I get back. I will expand on why I tied it and why I used the materials I did when I post up the pics. Fire away.......

There's some massive perch in there! Stick to the worms and target them - that's what I would be doing on there!! No bream in there from what I know, but he has stocked chub into it????? Big perch, big perch, big perch!!!!!!!

Richard, what was the line you told me about that is in place of the synergy? Can't remember for the life of me which one you said? Was it Hydro Tuff?????

They were used in the first season of game of thrones for the wolfs. Second season onwards is all computer.

I think my next dog may be a Northern Inuit Andy. Closest thing we can get to them! My mate sian got one a few years ago. Had great fun traveling the country visiting the breeders with her.

I have deleted a post on here for swearing. I would normally just edit them, but I had no idea what the post was trying to say, even with the swear words in it??????

Same amount if metal as the hinged stiff rig you describe!

I see a lot more pressing issues when I do venture onto day ticket waters. Things like people satnding up with fish is a regular one.

8lb line??? That was over gunning it when I started lol. Used to fish for doubles on 6lb line. It was the staple line for my ledger rod, river or mere.

Yes mate, very similar. I like to use a stiff filament though as I found it tangles less especially if used with an anti-tangle sleeve on the hooklink. Also, the large ring, used so the mainline can travel through with as little resistance as possible, sometimes had the tendency to 'spin' leaving the mainline sort or trapped. It's not that much of a problem but makes it act as a fixed lead (not what I was after with the setup). To combat this, a short length of tubing on the mainline, blobbed into the bead to stop it slipping, works wonders! I showed this to Mick the other week at Horseshoe. It's how I set up my marker float but incorporate a foot of leadcore (lead removed) to get over that spinning of the ring.

I don't use runing rigs that often but when I do, and I am fishing in silt or a soft area as you put it, I will use this simple arangement (sorry for the tattyness. It was just a quick sketch as its better than me trying to explain it in words):

I use short lengths of leadcore so the loop just pokes oout of the top of the bag. I did use the avid bag steams which are a really good product, only that they only fit avid leads! With either of these you can just loop to loop them on for speed or tie them.

Sorry to hear that matey. Xxx

Yes pete