Rigs
Setups that belong to a method
Not a catalogue of knots. Each rig is wired to the techniques, baits and species that actually use it.
Method feeder rig
Inline or elasticated frame, a four-inch hooklength, hair-rigged bait. Short, strong, and meant to be taken with the mouthful of mix.
Waggler setup
Locked float, bulk around the base, droppers down the line, fine hooklength. The same skeleton covers traditional waggler and, with a dumpy body, pellet waggler.
Cage feeder rig
A running or clip-on cage, a longer hooklength than a method, and a bait that sits just off the pile of feed.
Bomb / running leger
A straight lead on a run ring or inline, a hooklength, and a bait. The quiet alternative to a feeder.
Pole rig
A dotted pole float, bulk and droppers, a short hooklength, elastic in the top kit. Accuracy is the whole point.
Stick float rig
Shirt-button shotting down a stick float so you can hold, ease, and mend a bait down a river crease.
Maggot feeder rig
A blockend on a link, a medium hooklength, maggots trickling around a maggot hookbait.
Controller rig
A controller or bubble float, a long hooklength, and a floating hookbait. Surface carp with the line as hidden as you can make it.
Hair rig
A bait on a hair of line, not on the hook shank. The reason wafers, corn and boilies get sucked in with the hook.
Wire trace
A wire leader for toothed fish. Pike and zander. Not a carp rig. Pack forceps at the same time.