What rig if tench and carp are in the same swim?
Bailiff's answer, from the Carp Army rig library and what members have caught on.
Bailiff says: The hair rig
The hair rig is the honest all-rounder that both tench and carp happily pick up off the bottom without fuss. It's reliable across any water and won't over-complicate a mixed-species session where fish of different sizes are feeding together.
Tweaks
- Drop to a size 8-10 hook to suit smaller tench mouths
- Use a shorter hair with a single 10mm boilie or corn
- Keep hooklink supple braid at around 6-8 inches
The hair rig
The rig everything else grew from. A bottom bait on a hair off a wide gape hook, on a supple braided hooklink.
Parts
Wide gape hook, size 4 to 6
Coated braid hooklink, 20lb
Shrink tube, small
Hair stops
Size 8 ring swivel
Lead clip and tail rubber
3oz flat pear lead
Bottom bait boilie, 15 to 18mm
How to tie it
- Cut 25cm of hooklink and strip 2cm of coating from one end.
- Tie a small overhand loop in the stripped end for the hair.
- Thread the hook on and set the hair so the bait sits just off the bend, then whip a knotless knot with seven turns.
- Steam a piece of shrink tube over the eye so the hook turns.
- Tie a figure-of-eight loop at the other end and attach to the swivel with a quick link.
- Mount the bait on a baiting needle and stop it with a hair stop.
Your swim is different?
Describe it and Bailiff picks for that.