Great Ebay source for rigs

[redmr2turbo]

I've been buying my ready made rigs from Ebay now for a long time from this bloke, I must say that he is very helpful and his rigs are top class, saves a lot of money too!

[trees]

I would never buy/use a pre-tied rig from anyone. I just wouldn't feel that I had caught the fish. Also it's so easy to tie a simple rig that will catch ANY carp, so unless you have (like my mate) one arm, and can't tie them yourself, why bother. What happens if you blunt a hook and don't have a replacement rig? do you just go home, even tho' you may have paid upto £30 for a 24 hr session?

[redmr2turbo]

At the moment I would do yes! I'm sure I'm not the only person who doesn't tie his own rigs though.

 

I will learn to do it one day, I just haven't got round to doing that yet, and instead of paying over the odds for pre tied rigs in the shops I get them from this bloke off ebay.

[danner]

Half the fun of carp fishing is beavering away in my garage under the lamp tying rigs. Gives me an excuse to get a bit of piece and quiet

[redmr2turbo]

True, I need to find somewhere where I can find all the knots etc to start doing it. I need a lot of info for tying my own rigs tbh!

[trees]

Have a look at this mate:

 

http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/rigs/carprigs.htm

 

Knots are obviously the most important part, learn the Grinner, Palomar and Knotless Knot, learning these will give you enough knowledge to tie an effective carp rig. Do a search on google for 'carp rigs' to find more.

 

Ohh, and learn a good loop knot too.

[danner]

Well, start by looking up tying an overland loop, very easy and is used amongst other things for a hair stop, also the knotless knot is very easy and is used alot for securing the hook and tying the hair. Two easy knots is all you need to get started.

 

Probably diagrams on this forum if you do a search.

[redmr2turbo]

I know the Grinner knot (at least I think that's what it is!), I use that for tieing rigs to mainline etc.

 

Cheers for that link Trees, there's a lot of good info on there. Looks like I need to learn the knotless knot.

[salokcinnodrog]

Not being funny, but there are loads of Pics of easy to tie rigs on Carp.com!

 

On these threads are some simple Rigs and knots:

 

https://forum.carp.com/article2.html

https://forum.carp.com/article26.html

 

I have posted pics of Easy to tie rigs, that can be used as a starting point for all Hooklink Materials.

 

I would never use a Rig that I hadn't tied myself, if something goes wrong on a rig that somebody else tied, who is to blame.

 

If you lose a fish on a rig you have tied yourself you can only blame yourself.

 

Plus from where you are hooking the fish you can see what you need to do, lengthen/shorten the Hair, rig length or change hooksize!

[richchappy]

who is the guy.....

[carperdude3d]

i wouldnt like using ready tied rigs it just wouldnt feel rite and what if its not the rite length or the hairs to long etc.what when you want to try a zig rig or something

[richchappy]

i sell rigs on ebay and have sold zigs a few times for a bit of extra money