Bank Tackle Hook Stops Rubber Shank Beads Carp Fishing Tackle - 4 Colours Available - Choose Quantity x 10, 20, 50 or 100 Pieces

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I’ve always worked on how easy a carp can get my rig in its mouth, so I keep my curve to a minimum really. Using a micro swivel gives my little pop-up more movement and this I see as a good thing when compared to the one-way movement of a small ring. When choosing the right bait, as in weight or buoyancy, I’ve had great success on almost a wafter with my Chods rather than a very buoyant pop-up. If you think about it, with a very buoyant pop-up it’s always trying to pull the hook point away from the carp’s mouth; food for thought! Not wanting to add putty to the hook, I use the weight of a large hook to counterbalance the hookbait here. A little lead wire in the 10mm pop-up or one sinking piece of plastic corn sat under some floating maggots soon gets it sorted! To keep the sliding weight in place during the cast, tie a piece of PVA tape or string just above it on the hooklink material. This slightly-off-set Hair looks very different to most other set-ups. Thanks to the Hair exiting right near the eye, it makes the hook point heavy and acts cumbersome as it rattles around a carp’s mouth. This type of Hair set-up can give you some strange hook holds when compared to other rigs which nail in the bottom lip. But with all that said, it does catch more than its fair share of fish with its shotted down pop-up hookbait. A curved shank, straight-pointed hook like a Mugga is best used for this carp-grabbing type set-up, along with a supple braid to give it some rope. A long Hair that’s well shotted down makes this act like no other rig out there, so is certainly one to give a go. I found this to work better nailed to the lakebed with its supple braid, this sits nice over most lakebed chod and debris. Attach the bait first and hold just above the bend of the hook before you start whipping; the Hair may look long but it works best that way. With such a long Hair, thread through a PVA bag to stop any Hair tangles on the cast. A nice little way of getting baits ready for multiple catches here and that’s to tie them ready on loops of Hair braid or bait floss, all of which are attached to a rig ring ready for action. The whole rig is quite clever as it starts life as two loops in a coated braid, one small for attaching to the lead system and the other for attaching the rig ring and looping over the hook. The adjustable ‘D’ is set on the large side for bottom baits as this helps turn the hook and small for pop-ups (in a similiar way to a ‘D’ rig set-up which I just talked about), because, as the name suggests, ‘Multi Rig’, it can be used for both styles of hookbait presentation.