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No matter what the depth is tight to the margins of your local commercial carp fishery, this rig will catch you fish from there. It is one of the best rigs to use to catch the huge carp that patrol the outer perimeter of all commercial carp lakes countrywide. A A short, fat and dumpy dibber polel float is best ...
- Rigs
- Pole rigs
- 09 July 2010
Of all the various pole rigs that anglers use, the paste rig is perhaps the most misunderstood but it’s one of the easiest to tie, easiest to fish and it catches absolutely tons of common and mirror carp each year. The most important thing that you need to get right when paste fishing on the pole is to plumb the depth ...
- Rigs
- Pole rigs
- 25 June 2010
Want to be able to keep your float rig still when fishing a large windswept lake? Well here’s the rig for you – the simple driftbeater rig. When fished correctly this rig can be used to anchor your bait to the bottom in the strongest of undertows. It works by placing a fairly large shot overdepth, so that it rests ...
- Rigs
- Float rigs
- 05 March 2009
All anglers know that carp are suckers for bread crust fished on the surface in the summer, but it is often a very underused bait at all other times of the year. Here we show you how it can be used to catch more carp just off the bottom of stillwaters at any time of the year. Bread crust and ...
- Rigs
- Leger rigs
- 05 March 2009
The resistance-free running rig has to be one of the simplest leger and feeder rigs a fisherman ought to know how to tie, and it’s deadly too. It will work on rivers, lakes and canals, for almost all British freshwater fish, and below you'll find out how to tie it... This rig can be used with a groundbait feeder, a ...
- Rigs
- Feeder rigs
- 05 March 2009
The helicopter rig forms the basis of the vast majority of big carp fishing set-ups used by specimen anglers. It’s incredibly simple to create and its fish-safe too. This means that if the rig is created properly, a fish is hooked and the mainline breaks or the lead becomes snagged, the lead and line will eject from the rig. You ...
- Rigs
- Carp rigs
- 05 March 2009
Trotting a small river for roach, chub, bleak, dace and skimmer bream is a fantastic way to spend a day fishing. It’s an active method that involves flicking your rig out, paying out line from the reel, mending the line to make sure the float travels along the right line, and occasionally holding back the float to make the bait ...
- Rigs
- Float rigs
- 05 March 2009
If you have spent lots of time, effort and money prebaiting a lake or a river for masses of bream, barbel, carp or tench, you ought to know how to fish that peg correctly so you get the most out of it. Here we show you where to cast to make sure that you keep the shoal right where you ...
- Rigs
- Float rigs
- 05 March 2009
If you have spent lots of time, effort and money prebaiting a lake or a river for masses of bream, barbel, carp or tench, you ought to know how to fish that peg correctly so you get the most out of it. Here we show you where to cast to make sure that you keep the shoal right where you ...
- Rigs
- Leger rigs
- 05 March 2009
If you want to get more bites when fishing a groundbait or open end feeder, try this neat trick and twitch your rig back. It’s easy to do and can trigger even more bites than you’ve ever had before. It works brilliantly for bream, carp and tench – even roach too when you’re fishing a maggot feeder. It is very ...
- Rigs
- Feeder rigs
- 05 March 2009
