woodchester17

again nick and co , thanks alot. mark

Could I ask a question about the "hand test"? I have seen the videos where various rigs are dragged over the heel of the palm to demonstrate how the hook will behave. It would seem to me that this only demonstrates what is happening when the line is being pulled i.e. when there is tension in the line. This will happen when the boilie is being sucked in or if the carp is backing away. If the carp is just mouthing the bait or is blowing it out, the feature demonstrated by the hand test is surely irrelevant? Ah yes!! The hand test!! Since when has running a rig in my living room across my warty old hand while watching matt Hayes total fishing been anything like a carp feeding nose deep in silt!!!!!! Ideally you want the point to turn over and prick the bottom lip of the fish, whether that is done using a taut hooklink or the carp blowing the bait out. So draging it across your palm and getting the hook towards the edge just before you pull it off the edge the hook cocks and pricks the palm on the edge... I very rarely loose any carp, cant remember the last, if i get a run its on, and well nailed in the centre of the bottom lip.. Results speak..

Thinking about it, I suppose a slim pva funnel web of stick mix threaded the length of hook length would eliminate tangles completely don't you think? Running rigs, going back to the future! Maybe it will become fashion instead of filling our lakes up dumping a really toxic (lead) substance!

Genius, roll on June 16th!! Gunna call it the slack dog rig!! Ta mukka

Thank you both for your help, but would the lead link not tangle with hook length on the big chuck as they both hang down together? I'm avoiding the chod like a heart attack I'm afraid, just can't risk losing anymore fish. The last one was a upper 30 that I hooked at 90 yards, it rolled on surface 30 yards out and then all went slack . . . . . . . . . . Thanks again to you both. Mark

Hello one and all, hoping someone can give me a little help with rigs. I fish a very old silty estate lake,last season was my first year there and I was using the helicopter rig (some call it the chod) but having lost 14 fish on it and some of the fish I landed had such light hook holds I wondered how I ever got them in I need to change my set up and am looking for suggestions. Like I have said I fish a real silty old place and presentation is hard work, I've just come back from France fishing a hard clay pit, had lead clip on 2 rods and inline running rig on 1, the bite indication on the running rig was unbelievable and would love to use it this season so I suppose my question is how do I go about using a inline running rig,casting 100 yards whilst presenting a bait in nasty silt! So desperate to get away from the helicopter set up although the hinge stiff rig looks like it might give better hook holds than the 'chod' set up with the extra movement it has?? I know nick is a fan of running rigs like me!! Thanks in advance for your help. Mark