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Used by Simon Scott so must be a decent bait. If your interested he ran some tank tests on Baitworks products results look pretty good. Link enclosed http://www.completefisher.com/Simon%20Scott%20-%20Tank%20Tests.pdf

Think Nick might be well equipped to offer info on this

Hook pattern depends on rig to be fair, for example D Rigs, Stiff Hinge etc.. i would use an out turned eye (personal preference is a Arma Point SR) Combi Rigs, Blow back style .. I would use a wide gape (personal preference is Arma Point SSBP)

That sounds like the hook is moving around whilst you are playing the fish (this is a guess of course).

Just as a side note on this topic if anyone uses the mag alinger rig a trimmed down fox zig alinger can also make a very nice line alinger

In the words of a famous kids program "Here's one Nick prepared earlier"

I have seen it done with a rubber grub

Again not massively different to today's kicker and same theory tubing to extend the shank with angle at the top, the key difference with what i class as a real line alinger was instead of the hooklink material exiting straight out of the tubing you pierced a hole near the top where the hooklink material would exit.

That man shaped the early years of my angling attended a talk by him blow my mind in those days (early 90's)

To me yes This one is down to people personal thoughts on the subject some think that barbed hooks have less chance of moving once the fish is hooked, as where barbless due to lack of barb have more chance of slipping and then rehooking or tearing the mouth of the fish. No hard evidence either way, some folks on here might have run into this item before.

Found this on Luke Moffatt's website for Graviers regarding hooks http://www.lukemoffatt.com/carp/carp_restrictions.shtml

Going back to the original title of the thread I know people on here have had good experiences with the Krank hooks but for me the curve is to aggressive and they can cause mouth damage from the movement they create in the mouth (Struggling to find good evidence of this though). So for me the 2 hooks are completely different.

Depends on the rig you are using to present the pop up's, for example multi rig/hinge stiff rig would use a chod style hook as where my current presentation using something similar to what Nick describes with a ring on the shank i use a wide gape style hook. Different patterns are suited to different presentations

Im another one that uses quick links, I use the fox kwik change ones but instead of using a full anti tangle sleeve I trim enough off to cover the attachment section and a bit more but leave the end like the eye of a swivel so you get full movement for the rig from the attaching loop.

Might be worth harnessing the power of social media Adam Penning and Tom Maker run tutorials on there so a quick post to one of there social media outlets may through you a bone

Welcome to the forum Lee On the fox edges 3 there is a section shot here http://www.carplantis.com/en/ dont know if it is any used to you.

I use Fox Rigidity in 25lbs for the stiff section of my HSR (there the same thing anyway)

Oh god he's mentioned the C word To save a lot of typing I will hand you over to the Thinking Tackle boys for an explaination I don't use chod's myself more to the fact the waters i fish don't really have the requirement to but i am playing around with its rig cousin the stiff hinge rig

To be honest I haven't used that rig before was just a suggestion for the poster, I still think there is something with the short stiff section at the hook end that makes it very tricky for the carp to deal with. That is not the best pic i have seen of it normally the stiff section has a nice smooth curve to it, so i'm guessing the hook will lay horizontal to the bait due to the length/weight of the longshank hook. I don't use longshank hooks due to the size of the fish i fish for they have the potential to cause mouth damage but the principal should work with a normal out turned eye hook of the anglers preference

Forgot to add the image

Looks a hybrid between the 360 and a hinge stiff, for me personally there is to much going on with the rig itself, I would keep it simple to start with, having said that there is something in the whole really short very stiff pop up section as the flick rig that Ian Russell uses a lot has a similar section. I agree with this and i believe that when you are using a low sitting pop up the fish do not know that it is not on the bottom (this theroy is taken from experiences when diving when looking square on to some items it is very tricky to tell if they are on the bottom) and as the home in on the bait it catches them by surprise and flies straight back into the mouth

Option one for me mate I like the hook to sit at 45 degree angle with a pop up.

Yes he did good spot cyborx