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The thing which concerns me more than anything about this article is the description of the rig. This type of tether rig was very prevalent 25 years ago and practically every feeder fishing article you read would show a nice diagram of it. However, it was recognised at least ten years ago that while it was a perfectly good rig for bream fishing on soft bottomed snag free lakes it was not a safe rig for harder fighting fish on hard bottomed, snaggy, running water venues, and they don't come much more snaggy or rocky than the Wye.
A safe rig which achieves the same bolt effect can be achieved by running a couple of float stops up the mainline followed by a snap link to carry the feeder, a short length of rig tube to act as a boom and a quick clip swivel to attach the hooklink, In the event of a break in the mainline and the feeder snagging instead of committing the fish to a slow death tethered to the snagged feeder the float stops will slide off and the fish will be left trailing a hooklength and a length of mainline.
A safe rig which achieves the same bolt effect can be achieved by running a couple of float stops up the mainline followed by a snap link to carry the feeder, a short length of rig tube to act as a boom and a quick clip swivel to attach the hooklink, In the event of a break in the mainline and the feeder snagging instead of committing the fish to a slow death tethered to the snagged feeder the float stops will slide off and the fish will be left trailing a hooklength and a length of mainline.