Risque Manoofus
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Being very much a caster roach and skimmer bashing type angler hair rigs are something that I havent used that much and I have everything to learn about.
I dont fish carp commercials and its not my desire to hit loads of 4-5lb carp. Most of my days are spent on our various club waters that all have good heads of F1s to 3lb, tench averaging 3-4 but go to 8lb and theres always a chance of getting amongst the slabs that tend to be in the 4-6lb mark.
Im using a match rod and want to use hook lengths of around 0.14 on soft pellet and hair rigs with a Preston size 14s-16s so as to still hit the skimmers.
Ive watched several carp lads and several videos and I see the rigs they use and all well and good if you are targeting fish with gobs like landing net heads but how do you go with scaling that right down?
Sweetcorn is a good example. Its a bait I dont like too much for the reason that I personally tend to miss a lot of bites on it and so I went over to hair rigging it and I still miss loads of bites on it. Im getting it wrong.
I have it so that the bait sits on the bottom bend of the hook. I use a small sleeve of pole float silicone tube slid just onto the start of the bend on the shank of the hook to line it up.
What denotes how long the hair should be bearing in mind the smaller size of the mouth on skimmers and F1s.?
Id be very intrested and grateful for any help please fellers.
I dont fish carp commercials and its not my desire to hit loads of 4-5lb carp. Most of my days are spent on our various club waters that all have good heads of F1s to 3lb, tench averaging 3-4 but go to 8lb and theres always a chance of getting amongst the slabs that tend to be in the 4-6lb mark.
Im using a match rod and want to use hook lengths of around 0.14 on soft pellet and hair rigs with a Preston size 14s-16s so as to still hit the skimmers.
Ive watched several carp lads and several videos and I see the rigs they use and all well and good if you are targeting fish with gobs like landing net heads but how do you go with scaling that right down?
Sweetcorn is a good example. Its a bait I dont like too much for the reason that I personally tend to miss a lot of bites on it and so I went over to hair rigging it and I still miss loads of bites on it. Im getting it wrong.
I have it so that the bait sits on the bottom bend of the hook. I use a small sleeve of pole float silicone tube slid just onto the start of the bend on the shank of the hook to line it up.
What denotes how long the hair should be bearing in mind the smaller size of the mouth on skimmers and F1s.?
Id be very intrested and grateful for any help please fellers.