Pop-up Hooklength

[nasha]

What is the best length of hooklink to use for fishing a pop-up? Also is it best too fish tight to a feature or a little further back??

Thnx Nasha

[carp_boi]

i think shorter hooklength is better for fishing snags and longer rigs for open water

[salokcinnodrog]

What is the best length of hooklink to use for fishing a pop-up? Also is it best too fish tight to a feature or a little further back??

Thnx Nasha

 

I'll answer the Pop-up Hooklength, the other you should put another post up for in Carp Fishing.

 

I've switched this to UK Rig Tying as well.

 

I prefer to use a long Braided Hooklength for Pop-ups, I want as supple a Hooklink as I can get away with. A stiffer material may not be taken in properly as the Bait is sucked in. My Normal length is about 15cms for Pop-up hooklengths and I use simple rigs as well.

 

A Uni/Grinner knot loop and the hook knotless knotted on. My favourite patterns are Kamasan B175's, Drennan Super Specialist or Carp-R-Us Longshank Nailers.

[nasha]

Thnx for that guys i will take note

Nasha

[pcarr]

stiff rig terry hearn style using esp bristle filament.

[iand]

I want as supple a Hooklink as I can get away with. A stiffer material may not be taken in properly as the Bait is sucked in. .

So how's it all work with the Terry Hearn Combi rig (as someone else noted) and the various designs of chod rigs out there these days.

 

I think on any given day either supple or stiff could work.

[salokcinnodrog]

I want as supple a Hooklink as I can get away with. A stiffer material may not be taken in properly as the Bait is sucked in. .

So how's it all work with the Terry Hearn Combi rig (as someone else noted) and the various designs of chod rigs out there these days.

 

I think on any given day either supple or stiff could work.

 

My worry is the extra Knots on the hooklink mini swivel or ring!

 

Plus I tend to fish pop-ups over a Background feed area more as a Critically Balanced bait than as a Real Pop-up. My pop-ups are very close to the Lake bed, unless I'm fishing over decaying Leaf and smelly silt.

 

Another thing with Pop-ups is I don't like to cast them in with a Normal stringer as I worry about the stringer dragging the Hookbait down and the point getting clogged up.

[carperdude3d]

i use korda IQ and a d rig

[neilscatchin]

I've found the best rig for pop ups IMO is to tie a stiif hinge rig using coated braid and just stripping back about 2cm at the hinge position.

[salokcinnodrog]

I want as supple a Hooklink as I can get away with. A stiffer material may not be taken in properly as the Bait is sucked in. .

So how's it all work with the Terry Hearn Combi rig (as someone else noted) and the various designs of chod rigs out there these days.

 

I think on any given day either supple or stiff could work.

 

Ian,

 

I can't argue with Tery Hearns results on his Pop-Up rig, but I think that with the 2 lengths of Stiff material it sits too high off the Bottom of the Lake. My main concern is that I prefer to fish pop-ups over a Background feed and feel that with a very high pop-up it may get ignored or lead to Foul hooking!

 

Again I found than on the Waters I fish that the Chod Rigs seem to sit too high and also that where some of the Fish have holed up I couldn't use the Chod Rig to get a Bait to them comfortably. (Right Under Trees)