Ronnie and his mates.
Posted: Sun Aug 19 2018 17:19
There's the Ronnie rig, then there's the KD rig, the spinner rig the blowback rig with every combination of hook patterns, hooklink materials and leads etc etc and so on and so forth!
After watching some korda underwater videos where Danny Fairbrass changed rig after rig as carp after carp were "doing him", he then went back to one of the 1st rigs and promptly hooked a loverly big fish.
Now I appreciate the importance of good rig mechanics....to a point but watching that made me think that the most important thing going was how the fish actually takes the bait and that they "av it!"
For sure we want tangle proof rigs that can fish baits in various ways like over weed but is it now a case of anglers really over thinking things.
For years I used a basic knotless knot on a coated braid but as I have found a bit more interest in carp and with a impending trip to France I started to wonder???
Cheers Alan
After watching some korda underwater videos where Danny Fairbrass changed rig after rig as carp after carp were "doing him", he then went back to one of the 1st rigs and promptly hooked a loverly big fish.
Now I appreciate the importance of good rig mechanics....to a point but watching that made me think that the most important thing going was how the fish actually takes the bait and that they "av it!"
For sure we want tangle proof rigs that can fish baits in various ways like over weed but is it now a case of anglers really over thinking things.
For years I used a basic knotless knot on a coated braid but as I have found a bit more interest in carp and with a impending trip to France I started to wonder???
Cheers Alan