ronny86

In not new new but new to the techincal side, I've fished your KD rigs, blow bags, standard bottom bait rigs, zigs.. But I feel confident enough now to move to the technical side, seems I wored it wrong should of said 'fairly new to techincal carp fishing'.... And the venue I'm going to popups fish best there, so what better way to get techincal than with a popup Trying to beat my pb of 16.5lb, not a bad pb for NE England.. My standard rigs were just wide gape hooks and kurved short shanks, but time to see if I benefit more for being techy but not to techy

Yeah I understand they vary, but I don't really wanna fish a silt/weed hook length over a sandy gravel bottom, might not make no odds, but it would to me, plus I've never fished a sandy gravel bottom ;D Anyway rig I made up as I know 10-15mm do the business there, prob also use a blow bag on a wide gap and a 15mm boilie, tipped with some bright plastic.. (Fish shy away from big beds of bait there the owner told me) Fished in a soild bag.. (Although I cut the hair off now and opted for a boilie peg) I'm more than happy with my rig now, kaptor hook, boilie peg to hold boily on with a ESP hook bead, supernatural gravel braid, ace kicker tubing to save me messing about with shrink tube to get the right angle, bit of putty to keep it on the deck with a size 8 ring swivel, weight are just speckle yellow ones a friend makes cheap, with some standard gravel tubing As for the long shank hook comment, a simple explanation would of been sufficient I'm fair new to carp fish so go easy on me I just thought they were the best option from googling, I onlyreallt use wide gape,mixa and kurved hooks, but would of got long shank.. But thanks for the info, ill stay well away now Chees for the reply mrdevon, i opted for the same..

Just depending on baits and what rig setup I use, wouldn't wanna use a wide gape with a KD (although it would be fine) a curved hook would give a better hold.. Just more of a confidence thing, I can't relax unless I'm 100% happy with the rig that's in the water

Spot on U think a mugga for a KD rig and a long shank mugga for a snowman? Not used gardener hooks so not sure what hooks for a pva bag...

Might just be me a bit picky here, but I'm fishing a clear sandy gravel lake for the first time so trying to get my leads etc to match the bottom.. I bought the new korda captor hooks in gravel colour and gravel shrink tube to kick the hook out, now my problem here is the hook and shrink tube is a different could to the safe zone lead clip and the korda supernatural gravel (non coated as I'm fishing solid pva bags). I know its not a big deal for pva bags as most of the rig is hidden but ill prob use the other rod with a block bag rig and a scattering of boilies.. Would u fish it with them components or try match the lot to the colour of the clips etc I have a theory on this but won't say til I get some replies as to what people think