nathanhuynh

if your really stuck with finding clear patches or there are very few to find and must fish in medium depth weed, what rig would you use? thankyou

because I like to fish quite slack lines with weightless bobbins and well sunk line if the fish swims away then it will have to take the slack out of the line before the lead will be picked up.

I just started putting together some helicopter rigs, they look good and I can see that with my VERY stiff rigs and supple hairs with the helicopter setup will have magic presentation over the tockenham resi deep silt. But I don't know about hook holds. I now use a relatively slack line so if the fish picks up the bait and swims away from me the weight of the lead will have no hooking affect at all. Will the fish hook themselves fast enough? thankyou ps. whats the difference between a helicopter rig and a chod rig?

lol, I meant float fishing for carp exclusively with like a leger float or the lift method! thanks

Been fishing on the float for carp at Tockenham Resi and find that it is a very exciting way of targeting carp by using a medium balsa float and the lift method with shot or a feeder. I think it is like zig rigs but it is far more active than any other methods as you are constantly holding the rod. I also seem to catch more using 5lb line and a soft carp float rod. Everyone should give it a go, it is probably the most enjoyable carp fishing Ive ever done!!

On my venue everybody seems to be using barbed hooks except me but I don't see the idea! I get that they don't move around as much but surely a micro barb will do (that's what I use). They use big barbs and say that they hold in well. But them, like me, use lead clips which fail to eject the lead on every take so I find that the lead weighs the hook in. So what other advantages are there to using a barb (bearing in mind that hook size is around so why do they do it? thankyou

thanks chaps, I will go for a size 6 or 4, let you know how it does

Hi, lately at my venue people have been catching loads of carp on snowman rigs but I am confused at what sized hook to use. There are lots of small common carp on my venue but a few bigguns. The bait will be a 16mm bottom bait and a 10mmm topping pop-up. thankyou

dunno about france but in st jhons a load of 3 massive drilled stink pellets popped up with a big bit of cork worked. I heard that live crucian carp is supposed to be good because they move alot. (that and that they drive me insane at tockenham resi)

if its a bottom bait/snowman then always use a nice long hair, if its a pop-up then use a short one. When I use a snowman rig of 20mm I use a 40mm hair so a 20mm gap betwen hokk and bait.

Everybody seems to think that boilie rule, but a live and moving bait I catch loads on! I find that I catch heaps of winter carp on maggot rigs with this rig being my new favourite! It was mentioned in total carp, I tried it and it seems to work epicly by taking away the weight of the hook (not that I believe that) and by actualy moving as attraction. Also dont limet yourself to red maggot because white and orange are more visable and are good when mixed. Where is the orrigonality in using an unnatural bait on the hair? Oh and don't use maggots in the spring/summer if your venue had roach/bream/crucians because take the bait all the time. Also if your venue has minnows because they chew the maggots therefore making them useless.

Have you read the original post.? Fake maggots were only mentioned as tip. I meant amongst the real maggots not to replace the corn

only one slight problem I don't speak any french TYPICAL! 3 languages none of which are french, last time I went to a french tackle shop the owners just looked at me like I was mad in the end my dad came up with pale' vu ongle'...I kept hoping one would get the english gist and/or speak german!

if the hook were loose then yes it would be dangerous but the hook is sealed tight into the stiff corn and it is safe. You need to use a rig tool to pull out the hook! I doubt it would ever come loose in a fish's mouth.

the second hook cant possably get out. It isnot for hooking the carp. It acts as a maggot clip instead of using a great big clip!