New tips.....

[BAZ (Angel of the North)]

Bernie Loftus is your man. I snatched his card once.

Other anglers laid claim to it including Rob Maylin., but it wasn’t his idea. And Bernie even accredits Jim Gibbinson for giving him the idea and helping to develop the rig.

OH YES!

And it wasn’t Kevin Maddocks who invented the hair rig either. It was a chap called Lennie Middleton. I haven’t had the pleasure of snatching his card yet though.

 

[Trisantona]

Must be nighe on thirty years since i first asked for PVA at a big tackle shop,what's that said the assistant,string that melts in water says i to much guffaws from the resident experts.!!!!/forum/smilies/big_smile_smiley.gif

 

[Gary Newman]

A lot of these latest 'in' rigs are invented for the sake of inventing one, or for a specific fish in a certain situation.
The 'chod' rig seems to have been the in thing recently, but it was written about years ago by Frank Warwick, on the northern meres, and is really only a link leger set-up anyway!
Half the stuff you see written about would tangle into a mess if you tried to cast it or when a fish swam anywhere near it, and the people who write these sort of articles would realise that if they bothered to actually use it before writing about it!

I'd far rather find the fish and then use soemthing i know is reliable - i still use a long hair, long hook link and running lead for most of my carp and barbel fishing.

The other point is that if soemthing was that good and revolutionary you'd probably want to keep it quiet for a few years anyway, like the hair rig.

 

[teecee]

I can remember 40years ago using the plastic film cannisters for 35mm film converted by some wag into feeders.Holes added around the tube and lead strip with a mono tied- swivel-worked a treat

As already noted-very little is new in fishing,but what is put forward as such in the mags/papers does give me a good laugh!!

Perhaps someone can list the real inovative stuff and who was responsible for it...........I would be interested.

I have never invented anything but I did make some 12/14"long sarkandas reed loaded floats many,many moons ago used as a slider in 20' of water.I worked out that if I loaded it,the float would not travel back toward me once I had cast out and the line was running out but stay(more or less)in the place where the float landed.New?No,probably not but I have never seen the like of them before or since AND they worked beautifully!!!!They were painted black and stood out perfectly against a clear background.Made for one particular water near Reading....................chucks,Am I clever or what......

 

[Gary Newman]

Years ago (before i was born!) peopel had to make their own tackle if they wanted anything specialised, so there were lots of anglers knocking stuff up in their shed, but today everything is available in a tackle shop, so there aren't many left doign this.
Richard Walker was probably the greatest inventor of tackle and came up with loads of his own designs - nets, rods and much more.

 

[The Monk]

"And it wasn’t Kevin Maddocks who invented the hair rig either. It was a chap called Lennie Middleton."

Baz I though the idea for carp angling came from a method of bait looping in sea angling, when the loop had broken the bait stayed on the hook as anhair, lenny and kevin adapted it from there, i suppose technically they could claim invention in that it was adapted for carp fishing.

The bolt rig of course has been used in carp fishing from possibly the early years of the last century or before, it is based on the Mealie Pip Trap used in South Africa, Ron clay was the first I heard write about it in the South African paper Tight Lines in 1972, it was however a little slow taking off in this country and didnt really become popularised until circa 1979.

 

[Graham Marsden (ACA)]

Gary, same with the zig rig; been around for donkey's years butit didn't have a name then.

 

[The Monk]

The first time I saw it used was as a pop up rig for crust in the 60s, I have seen it mentioned in books though much earlier than that, Its mentioned in the How to catch Them series a number of times in relation to different species

 

[Gary Newman]

Graham,
Also the helicoptor rig, was originally called the 'whirling Ted' after a bloke called Ted who fished Harefield and came up with the idea, was widely written about a few years later.
The Method is another example, was being used years before it was called the Method and written about extensively.

I find it quite interesting that some of the modern carp rigs are basically a way of side hooking a boilie without it impeding the hook, things have gone full circle. We'll all be using potatoes for bait next!

 

[The Monk]

sea anglers had been using helicopter rigs for years,. didnt they call them paternosters "Our father rigs"

 

[BAZ (Angel of the North)]

I filched the hair rig info from a magazine Monk. And I know Bernie (Sandy's mate).

 

[The Monk]

not seen Bernie or Sandy for years Baz

 

[BAZ (Angel of the North)]

I picked Sandy up off the floor a couple of months ago mate. He had a touch of gravel rash.

 

[The Monk]

hope it gets better

 

[kevin anderson 2]

How did the zig rig get its name?

 

[slime monster]

i overheard a chap talking to alan mcatee[former england angler] after a canal open,the chap was telling alan he had drawn a good peg and not bothered the scalesman ;he went on to explain all the methods and baits he had tried, alans response was................thar needs angler on peg!