wilfster

oh o mate. your gonna get told off when one of the almighty powerful mods see that you aint searched for "what hook" threads. grab your tin hat and run for cover.

lightly steam over a kettle on the bank.

did you use alot of tape to tie them off. bet this is leaving the residue behind as i have found in the past.

is it in the area where you have tied the bag off? also, did you tie it off with pva tape?

Not really as he said he switched the snakebite to mono and then caught 2 fish, so im guessing he had rod in same place. I think snakebite pretty rubbish to be honest. Its really thick and stands out like a sore thumb. But i imagine you caught because mono is less visable than snakebite. Keep it simple and just concentrate on watercraft. nah mate, just wasn't fish over his spots. it really is that simple. there is a science to rigs and how they behave differently to different fish that feed in a different manner, but generally i feel that we dont get sussed like alot of the time we believe, more like they got away with it through feeding the way they do naturally or they just weren't feeding. granted that braid can stand out more than mono due to the fact that braid allows no light to pass though it, but seeing everything is one thing and knowing what your seeing is another.

because you had your rig in the right place at the right time when fish were feeding. SIMPLES

keep things as simple and basic as you can and you wont be going far wrong.

x-line fished slack. job done.

in all honesty mate i'd never cast out a supple link like silk worm without it being in a solid bag mate. Never gonna tangle off the cast. But there still come back tangled, so i'd say your tangled rigs are happening on the retrieve.

well i'm tempted to say these tangles are most probably happening on the retrieve mate.

try using a stiffer hooklength material, flouro combi links tend to be pretty tangle proof. Are you using supple braid? Cuz if your finding the rig tangled once you've retrieved it doesn't mean it was tangled while it was out, tangles happen when the lead plugs in weed or slit and the jolt as it comes free does the tangling.. Also a small pva stick will also prevent tangles. Also feathering the cast. Have you tried these mate?

mate welcome to the forum. and more importantly.......... a massive pat on the back from me for coming on here and asking the right way to do things rather than chucking out something dangerous out into the lake. there are a few ways to skin a cat mate and same goes for lead arrangements. but there are some good diagrams and how to's in the lead set up link already posted. but i personally wouldn't use them korda lead clips, but that maybe be just me who feels like that.

how big are these carp you targeting.

Indeed, more times than not a simple coated braid/mono hooklength tied to a good, sharp hook knotless knot style is as complicatied as your rigs need be.

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