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Oh so thats how it is lol what if you tell me throgh a "pm":D if the tackle companies get it right, i think that clear hooks could be an awsome peice of kit for fishing on the top and pop up rigs. PS: wouldnt glass leads have too be a fair old size to get 3oz and wouldnt they scratch when you cast and reel in ect making them more vizible in water?????

Perhaps if they were to sell it in barbless only ( they might have no choice but too depending on the material used?) then the accidents wouldnt be as bad and maybe you could put a peice of brightly colloured electricle tape on each one when your not using them??? No body can be sure untill they eventually come out .

so which company is it that you get your glass leads from???

if the hooks are very durable and kept razor sharp points extremely well and they were as hard to see in water as flurocarbon hooklinks then perhaps they would be worth it. i suppose they would be a bit OTT mind. do you think they would actually make a difference in catch rates though??

does anybody have any ideas about whether or not clear hooks will eventualy appear on the carp fishing scene, they could be made from some type of flurocarbon composite or ceramic or somthing. Any ideas about what sort of effect they could have and how realistic is the idea? maybe its a stupid thought realy

That looks realy good, do you use a pole elastic threader to coat braid with it or is it large enought to pass straight through???

oh right, I will cheers, i havnt seen much of rig maroles gear in the shops mind, i never thought of searching the net.

so you use the outer coating as the linealigner?? i havent seen the rigmarole leader skin so im probably on the wrong track here.

i used a rig like that a while back using the armaled fluro coated braid im not a big fan at the moment though, i think that its that bit to thick, it seems the less i put on my hooks the more im catching-nothing of great size mind but double figures. i do like the hooking propeties of that type of rig- i used the ssbp arma points thou not longshanks. thats why i put shrink tubing on them, i dont bother putting the tubing on long shank hooks as i think its just adding unessacery wheight and size making it easier to detect, do you think that that is the case ????? : ( ps using the korda stuff now but thats even thicker, cud'ov spent the dosh on summat else)

i should have looked there before i wrote any thing, ive basically just been a parrot. it would of saved me from typing a load. lol

thanks , ill check it out

I think that the tweaking of the rig isnt just down to coinsidence or luck, but rather the confidence you have in knowing that your rig is lying properly, this way you know your self that its an efficient hooking rig that is very subtle and matches the area and situation that you are fishing in. the more subtle the rig the more fish you catch right??? i havnt had a winter session for carp yet this year (been spinning for pike a couple of times) but i had great sucsess last year using size 10 ssbp arma points and IQ xtra soft but with larger baits than most people are on. for the majority of last winters fishing i used 16mm homemade boilys (halibut flavour) and pva bags the size of a 50 pence coin with 6mm hallibut pellets, i also catapulted the odd boily here and there around the swim. Dont know if this will work on the waters that you all fish, but you never know, how do you go about your winter fishing???

I am glad to here from you "andypalf" and I can see what your saying . I tweak my rigs if its needed in a particular circumstance, but i feel that the most of the time, a sharp hook on the simplest of rigs can catch more carp than a rig that has loads of fashionable bits on it weighing the hook down. i too, am somewhat of a tackle tart as i like messing around with the rigs and buying all of the fancy bits, but 9 times out of 10 ,in my fishing ,i catch more carp on simple rigs. i personally feel that the less there is on the hook the less chance there is of the fish picking it out from the crowd. i am a big fan of the "d-rig" mind as i like the way the bottom bait can hide the hook when its on the deck and the amount of movement the bait has when the rig is picked up. I don't use the "D-rig" for its ejection properties but I would like to think that the ejection properties are as good as we are led to believe. I find it hard to believe the bait is the only thing ejected using that rig, especially when using smaller hooks like we use on our winter rigs as the size of the "D" is limited. sorry any way , just my thoughts

How many of you have brought loads of rig bits over the years to tie"super rigs" with rig rings here, there and every where and fancy coated braids to find that you actually catch more on a simple knotless-knot hair rig tied out of 10-12lb flourocarbon like korda IQ xtra soft. This doesnt break the bank and is simple. too many people are worried about their rigs efficiency, when you should be more worried about the bait thats on it, and where you have cast it. right??? Any thoughts or replys welcome