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Let's face it if your rigs are not spot on your wasting your time . Anyone who isn't a bit OCD over them is set to fail.

I wonder how many people neglect to check rigs and concentrate over getting other things right and end up fishing in the perfect spot with every thing pinned down with a rig that just won't work .

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I dont measure my rigs, but I must admit (after asking the question...) that my knots, overall presentation is bonkers tidy.  I simply will not allow stray strands, messy knots etc.

 

 

My tackle bag is another matter lol

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Photo copy of cr##py carpers.com all rights reserved.

 

To place an order for the "karp-level" (the real spirit in angling) call 0-1 2-1 do one and this excusive piece of carp fishing equipment can be yours...

 

The karp level only £69,99p rrp (limited editions signed by an essex wide boy with a quiff and polo shirt will cost £99.99 only 10,000 of the deluxe levels will be available to those on a first come first served basis.

 

Stitch em and legget tackle specialists have the "karp-level" on offer at £39.99p to the first 100 buyers. To complement the set stitch em and legget will throw in the "karp kruncher" a 2lb mallet for getting those pesky polished stainless onto hard banks...

 

Or B&Q sell them for a fiver, but there are no pictures of a carp on it...

 

:rolleyes:

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Photo copy of cr##py carpers.com all rights reserved.

 

To place an order for the "karp-level" (the real spirit in angling) call 0-1 2-1 do one and this excusive piece of carp fishing equipment can be yours...

 

The karp level only £69,99p rrp (limited editions signed by an essex wide boy with a quiff and polo shirt will cost £99.99 only 10,000 of the deluxe levels will be available to those on a first come first served basis.

 

Stitch em and legget tackle specialists have the "karp-level" on offer at £39.99p to the first 100 buyers. To complement the set stitch em and legget will throw in the "karp kruncher" a 2lb mallet for getting those pesky polished stainless onto hard banks...

 

Or B&Q sell them for a fiver, but there are no pictures of a carp on it...

 

:rolleyes:

 

 

 

Only good if it came in prolite!

 

 

 

palm-saver-prolite.jpg

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Blimey that little lot puts the fear of christ into me , lord knows what the carp think :)

They do look scary close up lol. I mainly use the flouro combi if I intend leaving a trap out for a longish period. The middle is for a snowman or double bait for when the fish are feeding/ digging amongst the silt. Although I've put a chod in the picture, I hardly use it tbh.

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They do look scary close up lol. I mainly use the flouro combi if I intend leaving a trap out for a longish period. The middle is for a snowman or double bait for when the fish are feeding/ digging amongst the silt. Although I've put a chod in the picture, I hardly use it tbh.

I'm sure they do the trick for ya mate , when i first saw 'em i thought it was something out of a terminator movie tbh :)

 

Im a firm believer in keeping it as simple as possible even if it is mostly because i'm lazy lol .

The most complicated rig you see me using is a bit of fluro tied to a piece of braid .

 

Excluding the ready made choddies i buy of course :)

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I'm sure they do the trick for ya mate , when i first saw 'em i thought it was something out of a terminator movie tbh :)

Im a firm believer in keeping it as simple as possible even if it is mostly because i'm lazy lol .

The most complicated rig you see me using is a bit of fluro tied to a piece of braid .

Excluding the ready made choddies i buy of course :)

I'm also a believer in keeping things simple when possible. Sometimes though when setting a 'trap' you have to be rest assured that if it gets tampered with , it's still fishing for you. Through most of my carp angling, I've angled on silted up meres (27 yrs) and for a fair bit of that time I used rigs fishing in the silt, 'where the food is' . It's so easy for your hook to foul up and then your sitting there unbeknowing what condition the hooking arrangement is in. Many a time I've watched carp bubbling over my bait and not had a bleep, I've wound in, recast to the same spot and had a take within the same feeding spell. I prefer

bottom baits than pop ups when fishing in silt and if I'm fishing in daylight where I can watch for activity, I will happily use them. When I use them at night and I get unexplained bleeps, I tend to give it 30 min, then I feel like I need to wind in and re cast and in most cases I will. That's where stiff rigs with pop ups are effective from a re-setting perspective, along with the other obvious advantages.

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A delightful pic of my tackle box, its 2sided tool box i use, sorry no pictures of carp adorn my tackle box.

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The other side. udu6uhym.jpg all very chaotic but it works for me. I mainly use helicopter rigs, as i use leadcore often (have for 14+yrs) and think the helicopter rig is safest. u5ebasyn.jpg basic helicopter rig arrangement with spliced loop. If i get snapped off then the hooklink will slide away like this. 6utu4eru.jpg you may note thati dont have any tubing/shrink tube on the leadcore to temporarily affix the top bead in place, nor is it altered or doctored in any way, for instance, not threading the bead on sideways! There is nothing in which to impede the movement of the top bead if required. the 100% most important most imperative thing is that the bead and hooklink swivel ( with big bore ring) must be able to pass over the spliced loop like this.

y9u6yjyz.jpgthen the 'core with lead attached is now seperate to the hooklink. u3yga9yn.jpg

 

:rolleyes:

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Looking through some of these threads a lot of the hairs on the rigs are quite short..?? What are peoples thoughts on hair lengths? My hairs for my bottom baits have always been on the long side this is a size 4 curve shank on blowback rig and braided hooklink for a 14-15mm bait. u9uza3y6.jpg this is same rig with bait attached although something is lost in the photo, it looks shorter now?!?!

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I think a longer hair encourages the hook to turn and prick in the lip better, i think also as it is not so closely linked to the bait, it is more "unstable" during ejection. I also think it is something different at the majority seem to fish far shorter hairs. I could get two baits on a bottom bait hair that is designed for one bait.

 

However i think with pop ups, a shorter hair is more effective. yhesyhu4.jpg

 

What do others think?

 

:rolleyes:

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