Murray Rogers
Well-known member
Have been reading a few Carp (ratfish) mags recently on account of the fact that i seem to be incapable of catching anything of any great size, so thought that a few pearls of wisdom might be gleaned from within!!
Loads of interesting and thought inspiring stuff was within, baits, rigs etc, but one that realy my eye was a rig. Well end rig to be more precise. It was explained (with photographs) that this rig was designed for the use of pop-ups with big fish in mind.
It looked to me like a bent hook sort of set up until I looked closer, and read the article.
What you have here is a long shank hook which is not connected directly to the line but via a swivel, IE, the hook is passed through one end of the eye of a swivel and the other end of the swivel is then tied to the hook link.
What you end up with looks a bit awkward but its hooking capabilities are obvious,,,,AWESOME.
What worries me is the fact that once hooked in the mouth it appears that the hook would have to behave as a BENT HOOK. I have not tried this set up so cannot comment from experiance, but i have used the bent hook (an old Dognobbler) and would not like to do so again after seeing the consequences.
Anybody on here got any information on this rig at all?
Does it work (im sure it will)
Is it safe?
Loads of interesting and thought inspiring stuff was within, baits, rigs etc, but one that realy my eye was a rig. Well end rig to be more precise. It was explained (with photographs) that this rig was designed for the use of pop-ups with big fish in mind.
It looked to me like a bent hook sort of set up until I looked closer, and read the article.
What you have here is a long shank hook which is not connected directly to the line but via a swivel, IE, the hook is passed through one end of the eye of a swivel and the other end of the swivel is then tied to the hook link.
What you end up with looks a bit awkward but its hooking capabilities are obvious,,,,AWESOME.
What worries me is the fact that once hooked in the mouth it appears that the hook would have to behave as a BENT HOOK. I have not tried this set up so cannot comment from experiance, but i have used the bent hook (an old Dognobbler) and would not like to do so again after seeing the consequences.
Anybody on here got any information on this rig at all?
Does it work (im sure it will)
Is it safe?