Rig · BOTTOM — everything else grew from. A bottom bait on a hair off a wide gape hook, on a supple braided hooklink. Any water, any bottom bait. Start here if in doubt

Rig · BOTTOM — hooklink rotates around the leader above the lead. Casts well, resists tangles, and can be fished on top of weed. Distance work and silty or weedy bottoms with a short hooklink

Rig · POPUP — spinner swivel with a curve shank hook, so the hook can turn 360 degrees. The modern pop-up standard. Pop-ups over light debris or silt. Fish a lead clip or helicopter

Rig · SURFACE — controller float, a long mono hooklink and a floating hookbait. For fish on top in summer. Sunny days, fish cruising or slurping. The most exciting way to catch a carp

Rig · POPUP — stiff boom and a short stiff hook section joined by a ring swivel. A pop-up rig that resets itself. Big fish on clean or lightly silty spots. Long-range friendly

Rig · BOTTOM — ring on the shank so the bait can be blown back without ejecting the hook. Pressured waters where fish blow the bait back out. Bottom baits and wafters

Rig · WAFTER — knotless knot tied so the hair exits partway down the shank, giving an aggressive hook angle. Wafters and balanced bottom baits on clean spots. Deadly at range

Rig · BAG — short supple rig inside a solid PVA bag of pellet or crumb. The hookbait lands in a pile of food, wherever it lands. Silt, weed, winter, or when you want a mouthful

Rig · ZIG — buoyant bait fished up in the water on a long mono hooklink. Catches fish that never go near the bottom. Warm days, fish sat in the layers, or when the bottom