Well I was going to inform you all how I was having it away, on my new syndicate water, but alas nothing to report. I have fished two short sessions with only one small bream to show for my pains. So rather than bore you with an account of how I caught almost nothing I thought I might share my ideas on the rigs that I use.
I have three basic rigs in my armoury nothing fancy I’m afraid.
Firstly my version of the chod rig, or should I say reverse chod rig. This is tied normally with a fang twister hook and a length of stiff fluoro carbon line, that I tie knotless knot style using at least 13 turns down the hook shank, and 3 turns up towards the eye. I then attach a new style screw attachment that I screw into my chosen pop up bait. I then tie an overhand loop knot to attach a multi swivel. I use the handle of a rig puller or something round of similar size, to make a nice round profile as you can see from the photo. I then either attach this straight on to my mainline or a length of lead core. This depends upon the amount of weed I encounter. I then trap this between two reasonably tight fitting beads to give some movement to sit on top of any weed encountered.
Rig 1
My second rig is the hinged stiff rig, for this rig I like to use a long shank in turned eye hook, and a stiff fluorocarbon filament line. I tie this knotless knot style trapping the line with a piece of tube at the point where it leaves the bend of the hook I then tie a small loop to use to attach my pop up bait. I then tie a small swivel using a overhand loop knot and again use a round tool to make the loops as round as possible. This is very important as it adds movement to the rig. To the other end of the swivel I use a very stiff section of fluorocarbon line this ensures my boom section throws the rig away from the lead. I attach this to my lead set up normally by a safety lead clip.
Rig 2
My third rig is made by stripping 2 to 3 inches of stiffish coated braid and tying a small loop to end of the stripped section. I then whip down the shank of a wide gape hook until I am level with the hook point I then whip back up towards the eye three times. I then pull the rig tight and attacha oval rig ring by a three turn blood knot to use to attach to my main line, this rig can is best suited to bottom baits or snowman set ups.
Rig 3
So these are my main lines of attack, one thing that is ultra-important is the use of the sharpest hooks you can obtain. I cannot stress this enough. As I think that this point is overlooked. I look forward to reporting a few fish in the near future.
