Matt Brown
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Let just ignore the question of whether bolt rigging for Roach is ethical or enjoyable.
Last night I was experimenting on a local pit (Bank End) trying to get bolt rigs to self hook any fish of any size. I managed to catch a decent number of small Carp betwen 2oz and 1lb, plus a couple of Skimmers. I imagine the Roach will be similar.
I'd been adapting my Tench rigs and had a helicoptor rig working pretty well.
With an inline setup I was getting fewer indications and only managed to land a single fish.
This has thrown up many questions;
Should I be trying to get the rig to spring back towards the rod when a fish takes or should the fish be hooking itself against the lead/feeder?
I seem to need stronger hooklengths (5lb for instance) to prevent the hooklink breaking on the take. I even had a fish straighten the hook on the take last night. Is this normal?
Is is possible to have the rig hook every fish that takes the bait or is a certain percentage of failures normal?
Last night I was experimenting on a local pit (Bank End) trying to get bolt rigs to self hook any fish of any size. I managed to catch a decent number of small Carp betwen 2oz and 1lb, plus a couple of Skimmers. I imagine the Roach will be similar.
I'd been adapting my Tench rigs and had a helicoptor rig working pretty well.
With an inline setup I was getting fewer indications and only managed to land a single fish.
This has thrown up many questions;
Should I be trying to get the rig to spring back towards the rod when a fish takes or should the fish be hooking itself against the lead/feeder?
I seem to need stronger hooklengths (5lb for instance) to prevent the hooklink breaking on the take. I even had a fish straighten the hook on the take last night. Is this normal?
Is is possible to have the rig hook every fish that takes the bait or is a certain percentage of failures normal?