If you’re fishing a standard hair rig and losing fish, getting short takes, or watching carp mouth your hookbait in the margins without getting hooked, the Blowback Rig is likely the answer. It’s a simple modification to the basic hair rig that completely...
The KD Rig has built a substantial reputation as a big-fish, pressured-water rig — and that reputation is deserved. While it looks similar to a standard knotless knot setup from a distance, the angle at which the hair exits the hook is what makes it work so...
Every rig guide you’ll read talks about getting your hookbait on — or just above — the lakebed. The Zig Rig ignores that entirely. A Zig suspends your hookbait anywhere in the water column, from just off the bottom to inches below the surface. In the right...
The Chod Rig solves one of carp fishing’s most frustrating problems: how do you present a hookbait cleanly when the lakebed beneath your lead is silty, weedy, or covered in debris? The Chod presents your hookbait cleanly on top of all of it, every single time....
The Ronnie Rig — also called the 360° rig — has become one of the most widely-fished carp rigs on UK waters. Its rotating hook mechanism makes it mechanically superior to almost any other pop-up or wafter presentation, and it’s straightforward to tie once you...
Walk into any carp fishing tackle shop and you’ll see rig packets with names that sound more like cocktails than fishing methods — Ronnie Rig, Chod Rig, Hinged Stiff Link, Zig Rig. Knowing which rig to tie and when can feel like a dark art. It doesn’t have...
