Samantha Collins-Ratcliffe is a school teacher as well as a very keen carp angler, aged 25 and lives in Cornwall. She’s been fishing now for several years after her partner got her into it when she went to Suffolk with him on a five day carp fishing session.
That was where Samantha caught her first carp and then she was hooked. She’s caught carp from two different continents and goes to France a number of times a year. Her UK PB is 44lb 12oz. She is sponsored by Realtree, Diamond weights, TF Gear and Quest Baits
The Chod Rig
The Chod Rig has to be one of most favoured long distance rigs. Its presentation could be described as second to none.
The Chod rig was designed for fishing over silty bottoms or over debris but works well when fishing single hookbaits at long distance.
Sam’s Chod rig with a difference
The workings of the rig are simple; the stiff material is positioned to keep the hook up at all times and will run along the leader until it hits the 10mm boilies. This will allow the lead to go into the silt and the rig to stay on top of the lake bed.
If you have ever watched carp feed over a bed of bait they tilt up and down therefore giving the Chod one of the best hookholds I’ve ever seen.
As you can see it is finished off with some personal preferences. I choose to use crimps instead of knots for my stiff link, allowing me to make it as long or short as required. The leader is ESP lead core, which I prefer to splice myself, usually being about 3ft long and finished off with a 3oz Diamond weight.
The components you need
ESP Stiff Rig (20lb) ESP oval Rig Ring ESP Lead Core (25lb) 1 Diamond Weight 3oz 1 Korda Wide Gape hook 1 Wychwood crimp and crimp tool 1 Korda Helicopter Sleeve 1 ESP Swivel
All the components you will need to make the Chod
Knotless knot with ESP ring threaded back through the eye of hook
Cut link with sharp scissors
Burn the end of link until it is close to the eye of the hook
Thread link through the crimp and place the link through the eye of swivel and back through the crimp
Place crimping tool over crimp and press together for a nice tight fit
Sam’s Chod rig
About the Rigs Page
The Rigs Page is a library of features to illustrate all those rigs that will be useful to both beginners and experienced anglers.
The rigs can be extremely simple and well known, or very complicated and little known, it doesn’t matter providing they make some kind of sense and have a really practical application.
It could be a standard running leger rig that a beginner will appreciate seeing in pictures, or a very complicated anti-eject carp rig that the experienced carp angler would like to see.
If you wish to contribute a rig to this section please remember that the emphasis is on illustration rather than words. Good line drawings are fine in the absence of photographs. Please send to graham@fishingmagic.com
