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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there is no definative answer mate i think. but the longish hair maybe the reason, or a fish trailing tackle could be the reason you hit nothing, who knows mate. have heard of anglers using 4inch hairs and hammering places. but i cant get my head round it.

indeed, produced by kryston for multi-strand work/users. http://www.kryston.com/solutions/superstiff.htm

thankyou mate. to be honest with you even though i have seen them in action and they do produce good action and i have caught on them i still smile and scracth my head when i have chucked one out with a small mesh bag of pellets as its mad that they work. give them a go one day on one of your rods. i did this on a runs water and it out fished the pineapple boilie i use on runs waters. i used this to gain a little confidance in the gear before i chucked them out on my cray infested target water.

no mate i said....................... taken from here........... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid but never once have i said plastic baits had an amino profile mate. that was posted as food for thought. they may have as bio-degradable plastic has no give time scale in this instance. but would human contact with these baits leave an amino trace/signature behind? also food for thought. but what i did say was.......................... plastics do have an acidic ph profile and unless the water has the exact ph level as the plastic(un-likely i would of thought) in the water there will be a noticeable change to the surrounding area/water that a carp will sense. and these bright baits are very visable by carp. i fished a water with a huge cray problem and yearly i would say probably 70% of the carp were caught on plastic/fake baits.

from what i've learnt plastics have an acidic ph profile. so it can hardly be inert to a carp. i have also read that bio-degradable plastics has a definate amino acid signature, however no time scale is given for this. and carp do also sight feed alot and that bright piece of corn will attract there attention.

yes.

why wont it work these fake baits change the ph of the water around the "bait" as any bait does and the carp investigate. fished as a single is hard to get our heads around but the fact that it changes the ph of the surrounding water will get a reaction outta the carp.

yep, that will work, or you can google "pva straws" they do the same.