mvodkaman

paint your hook white this will increase the amount of takes you get

needle knot is deffinately the best and neatest although being a lazy so and so i always end up using the gardner ready looped ones .... heavy enough a probably the lowest dia on the market ..........

use some no5 pole elastic with a four turn knot on your line ,you can then have the backlead only flying back only as far as you want it..........

not quite sure why you would use a 30mm boilie but a size 2 hook would suit although you may want to have a longer hair and smaller hook. the most important thing however is that whatever hook size, is that it is sharp. other than location the second most important thing is hook sharpness... 30mm you must have huge bream where your fishing

ive spent the last few seasons using all different manner of rigs,long shanks hooks ,shrink tubing,shot,curved,reverse hairs,rig rings,putty all sorts of hooklegths and various other paraphernalia. this season it was back to taking my own advice i often give out on here ."keep it simple". so it was back to straight forward mantis to a B775 hook.and guess what my catch rate improved DOH

spitting on it is the worst thing you can do,if the line is dry and so is the tubing you wont have a problem. mono should not be a problem unless your using less than 10lb line. with braid you need a line threader. you may be using silicone rubber tubing instead of rig tubing which is slightly more ridgid this could be the cause of your problem

by rubbing your fingers along the hooklength, you will generate enough heat to straighten it,this will stop it looping off the bottom, a couple of pieces of kryston drop em will ensure it stays pinned down.

great rig the withy pool rig first used it at withy pool just because of the name, had a pb from there on it,later used it on all sorts of waters and found it effective everywhere i used it with virtually every hookhold bang slap in the centre of the bottom lip. its my first choice if im fishing a pop up. although i rarely fish pop ups my three largest ever carp were caught whilst using them..........yet i still have an aversion to using them , no idea why ???

ditto ! just had my front one fixed as i had worn a groove in it...

the most crucial part of the mechanics of this rig is the hard rubber maggot used as the aligner. enterprise make the rubber maggots in both hard and soft versions,it is crucial that you use the hard ones,as the soft ones just wont hook effectively.

have to say i have used the withy pool rig for years and i cant remember the last time the carp was not hooked slap bang in the middle of the bottom rig. mind you a would not class it as a complicated rig , hook and shrink tube very simple.

a simple piece of 15lb mono pushed thro first tie a loop then pull braid back thro job done.

i agree as well which is a bit worrying ..... do you think frank knows something we dont ?????

been on krystonite all this season,great line and pretty abrasion resistant as well,hooklengths were sensor a couple of seasons back and were also very good (cant remember why i changed) but will be on the suffix this year to start with........

ps am also going back to mono this year.....

havnt used it but i thought the IQ other than using it for stiffness which i dont like in silt, is flurocarbon and therefore virtually invisible in water ,if you colour it by making it camo ... does this not defeat the object ?

i fished a water that contained a lot of silkweed ,searching for a decent presentation i tried various different hooklinks. fox megasilk was incredibly thin and looked and reacted just like silkweed ,perfect presentation i thought and it was ,trouble was first carp i landed had its mouth cut very deeply due to the cheesewire effect ,have not used it since........

been using krystonite all season and not had a problem myself have had a bad batch of korda hooklink that snapped between hook and swivel. 30lb carp with 3 rigs in its mouth all snapped off ???? in a one acre lake with no snags??? and was landed just after snapping your line ????? how did it get the piece of mainline off the swivel ????? not being critical but are you sure you tied the rig on correctly,we have all lost fish and reeled to find curly piece of line, and no rig, in the early stages of our carp fishing.it soon gets you proficient at tying knots......

i use the 15lb versions of both mantis and silkworm and both are more than adequate for 40lb+ fish. use mantis in 25lb when you require stiffer presentation although personally i use ghost flurocarbon. i dont use silkworm in less than 15lb after i had a few fish damaged in the mouth area when using fox mega silk when fishing a lake with an abundance of silkweed. great presentation but hey the carp come first......

well spent £200 on hooks and used them as loosefeed with one on the end of my rig and blanked do you think they cleaned me out and just sussed my rig? hmmm are you sure your advice is right.?? seriously fished with hemp (with hemp oil) in pva bags with just a bare hook for quite a while, carp hoovered up the lot and although i caught quite a few this way the results were not exactly spectacular. worth a try in the margins where you can see it tho or you sit there worrying the small fish have cleaned up all the hemp leaving a very lonely bare hook.

wont use korda hybrid since having a couple of hooklinks snap on me under very little pressure

a small mesh pva bag attached will virtually ensure the the hooklength is straigtened when it hits the bottom. i would personaly always feel down with a tight line.

spot on neil couldnt have put it better, good luck with it simon you should have got me to tie some up for you at the social(pre drinking)

your right adam should have read question better drop em is what i use

you could be using too much just a piece the size of a mouse dropping is sufficient , snip a piece off with your fingernail then roll onto your hooklink between thumb and forefinger this will keep your hooklink pinned down and wont move.