dezza
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When I wrote various articles in: "The Carp" in early 70s about carp rigs that were being successfully used in South Africa, I was taken to task quite severely by a number of UK carp luminaries of the time. The rig that did it was the short hook length paternoster.
I sketched this rig, detailing a length of 18 inches from the lead to a small swivel. And then a distance of 6 inches of hook length from the swivel to the hook. Some times the hooklength was as short as 1 inch!!
What my critics - and one of them was **** Walker - failed to understand was that in South Africa we were fishing in large reservoirs or river impoundments that had become heavily silted up, and still are. Vaal Dam was typical of such waters, as was/is the Bloemhof Dam. On the bed of these lakes was up to 12 inches of soft silt that the lead sank into. Give slack line and the hookbait would sink too, and most times carp would never find the bait.
So the South African rigs were not stupid. They made it possible by using a tight line to make sure that the hook bait was as close to the top of the silt bed as possible.
Tim Paisley, in his editorial "Carp Leader - Carp World - July, points this out very well and even shows one of my early diagrams from "The Carp", the magazine of the BCSG.
This really took me back.
How many of you use the "Chod Rig"?
I sketched this rig, detailing a length of 18 inches from the lead to a small swivel. And then a distance of 6 inches of hook length from the swivel to the hook. Some times the hooklength was as short as 1 inch!!
What my critics - and one of them was **** Walker - failed to understand was that in South Africa we were fishing in large reservoirs or river impoundments that had become heavily silted up, and still are. Vaal Dam was typical of such waters, as was/is the Bloemhof Dam. On the bed of these lakes was up to 12 inches of soft silt that the lead sank into. Give slack line and the hookbait would sink too, and most times carp would never find the bait.
So the South African rigs were not stupid. They made it possible by using a tight line to make sure that the hook bait was as close to the top of the silt bed as possible.
Tim Paisley, in his editorial "Carp Leader - Carp World - July, points this out very well and even shows one of my early diagrams from "The Carp", the magazine of the BCSG.
This really took me back.
How many of you use the "Chod Rig"?