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garysj01

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  1. 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)

  2. a good 99% of the hooks used in carping are based on salmon or trout hooks....Have mentioned before about using long shank salmon hooks in the 80s for the bent hook rig....and to this day I still use Tiemco shrimp hooks for surface work :wink:

     

    as well as for my fly fishing obviously :lol::wink:

     

    Have you tried for carp on the fly fella?

  3. 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.

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    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.

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    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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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    Great rigs, i do wonder why i stopped using them? :)

  6. 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 :)

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

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