garysj01

I tell you what just explain your rig down to the finest detail

What hooklink material?

Could be a number of reason's but there's no harm in trying a running set up on one rod to see

well Im sure arrangements can/could be made over timescale fella I need a good stalking lesson off you two and a good friendly chat I cant wait for this!!! Kev i see your a jedi does that mean you come with a brown cloak now and do we call you OB1 now

well Im sure arrangements can/could be made over timescale fella I need a good stalking lesson off you two and a good friendly chat

I would do if i still lived down there

Always fancied fly fishing for perch with a bloodworm pattern or as rex hunt calls them Red Fin

Yeah casting was a bit tricky at first especially in tight area's with tree's behind you but satifying all the same when you get the fly to quietly roll on the surface Tried twice for carp and caught, and for pike (pike are good fun)

Have you tried for carp on the fly fella?

Here's a rig i used to use a few years ago, it emulated a running rig as well as a semi fixed bolt rig. The hooklink was 10 inches long, tied in the normal knotless knot style with a loop at the end. Which was then pulled through a uni link swivel, and the loop was pulled over the hook. I used to pull the loop end near to the hook and then tie on two small bits of pva tape or string, shortening the hooklink by half. The idea was the pva would melt in the water leaving the hooklink to travel up its own length on a take (emulating a running rig) and then jolt in the hook when the hooklink was straightened out. The lead was usually a semi fixed heavy inline lead, great for pva bag work. It used to work a treat but now i much prefer the early indication of a full blown running rig set up, plus im using pva sticks now.

Funny you should mention the kamasan b175's i was only thinking what they were called last night, correct me if im wrong but weren't they based on a salmon hook,

Sorry all I mean do you think the carp is getting pricked as the bait goes in or is the carp get pricked when the bait is being rejected

Hi all How many of us think we are getting takes as the rig is being sucked in or being blown back out?

Did you ever use the black amnesia?

It was really for a pop up, i wanted to push the D higher on the hook, the tubing looks excessive because its all tied to a size ten hook,( its all i have on me at the moment ) i used to use Drennan Boilie hooks size 6, and as a bottom i used to use it as a snowman rig.

You got me thinking of how i used to tie my amnesia rigs, and here they are, the top one was the one i used first then it developed into the one underneath over time. Great rigs, i do wonder why i stopped using them?

I used to use amnesia to tie all of my D rigs, great stuff and memory free

My only use for leadcore now is to use the lead inner and wrap it around the hooklink for a pop up weight, then just heat some green shrink tube over the top, you'll have to experiment a little and count the turns until you find enough works, but you can twist it back over the original twisting, i will put up a couple of pictures for you if you like

Put it all in a pva bag and partly inflate the bag, you,ll need to test it out but it will get the rig out there and then drop gently onto the silt. If thats what your looking for, as for a rig on its own a helicopter rig might be the answer with the swivel moving up the mainline.

Some backleads are designed to drop off if they get snagged, whether this is another ploy from tackle companies to make a bit of money im not sure, you can buy some that are more difficult to lose.

I do use flying back leads, and they have proven to work quite well.

yes some are yes, the ones which have the lead and the clip attached by a little piece of tubing some times come off while playing fish as well.

If your casting any kind of distance you wont need back leads, its another resistance point on your presentation which could lose you fish, your line will naturally arc down anyway with slack lines. The only time i use them is when im fishing right under the rod tips.

Try the fox backleads their attached to a cord