josh_reynolds

I use heavy bobbins and have a 2-3 inch drop on them in the day, you will see bites quicker this way than on a tight line in my opinion. At night I do the same, but usually at least 6 foot off the snag, the fish should gain confidence as darkness falls and come out of the snags. Always have your clutch tight and dont use your baitrunner at all! Also, when you hook one, get ready, it can be proper nerve wracking at times!

At night I would move the rod further away from the snags TBH, the fish are more likely to venture further out of the snag under the cover of darkeness, I dont really think there is a safe way of fishing sideways onto snags when your fast asleep, you need your whits about you, the 5 secs it take for you to wake up and hit the rod the fish could easily of buried its self deep in them

I have never really done much fishing where my rig is next to snags, only where they are on the far bank and I am casting to them, so I have no experience in that department! I could imagine I would use a totally different set up in that position, lead clip to drop the lead, tight lines with the rod paralell to the snags and basically quiver tip, wait for the tip to wack round, strike and hold on!

I have never had a problem with snags and running leads, in the day I have the rods locked up, pointing at my rigs witha 2-3" drop on the bobbins. As soon as a fish picks my rig up, I know about it in that cuircumstance as the semi-slack line combined with a running rig tells my instantly, I have tried tight lines and lead clips to snags but I dont get on with it as I feel the indication is poor with this set up. Although Imust add I use size 6 barbed drennaen barbel hooks, 15lb mainline, 3.5lb rods and bigpits for snag fishing, so I can really apply pressure if the fish is heading directly for the snag.

sure is mate

Hi Jay, cracking fish you caught! Fancy stocking a few sturgeon into main lake, add a bit of a twist to it

You dont want a bag on a choddy mate, just fish it over a scattering of boilies. I wouldn't think it would be the best rig for a beginner though, I would just stick to a running lead, have caught all my fish this year on that set-up

90% of my fish this year have been on fake corn, I have only had a few carp though, a lot of tench and bream

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Hi mate, where you thinking of fishing? In terms of tactics, my basic theory is keep kit to a minumum, rigs as simple as possible and move onto fish, stick with these and you will catch mate

not something i would try really, prefer to keep it simple with rigs, bait etc could hammer somewhere like drayton res though i should imagine

http://www.carp-fishing-tactics.com/rigs-fizzing-boilie-rig.html Any help?

i have always thought this only applied to Lonshank Nailer hooks or what ever they are called

WOOOHOOOO went into the "match tackle" shop today and they have restocked everything!! They even got the hooks in I asked for!!!