Also in the early morning I landed a 25lb common carp on the same rig. After an hour or so walking around the lake, I managed to find the carp, got set up found some likely areas to place baits, once baits were cast out and freebies scatted in the same area, all that was left was to have a fresh brew and soak up the early morning winter sun. Like a lot of keen carp anglers I carp fish throughout the fishing season as much in winter as I do in the summer months, it was during one frustrating fishing session that I came up with this rig by pure chance
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After scratching my head for a rig to use the maggots with I came up with a rig along these linesit has since proved a great success summer or winter. Yes maybe small potatoes in todays carp fishing scene of forties, but I have shown this rig to other friends and they have done equally well, one chap who was really struggling on his venue used it and second time out, fished the cork ball maggots rig over his bed of boilies and caught the lake record! Later in during the morning a pleasure angler friend turned up for a days fishing and set up in the next swim to mine, at least I could have some good company even though I was pulling my hair out!
One of the main reasons I think this rig works so well is, presently most carp anglers I see have their baits so close to the hook, and theyve done this for many years now, the carp learn very quickly especially the older bigger monsters, this rig gives more bait movement near the hook, and of course it is something different that the carp have not seen, imagine if you glued pink maggots to that cork ball what a sight - pop-upped just off the lake bottom, blimey just irresistible for those finicky carp!! Obtain a length of 2lb mono line about a foot long and a 12mm cork ball. For more Carp Fishing Secrets - check out my website. How to make the rig - I tied a normal hook link about 18 inches long, the hook link was made from 12lb fluorocarbon line, the hook being a korda hybrid teflon coated wide gape size 8, at the other end I tied a size 10 berkley swivel.
Credit: serendipitous947@flickrRepeat this until the entire cork ball is covered in maggots this hook link can be tied to any terminal tackle / lead weight combination of your choice. While my friend set his gear up, I made us some much welcome hot tea. What was up with those wily carp? They were used years ago but nobody seemed to use them for carp these days, so I thought Id give them a go on one rod as I had nothing to lose. During that winter session I caught a 23lb mirror carp within 30minutes of casting the rig out! I simply threaded the length of 2lb line through the middle of the cork ball using a sewing needle, tied a slip knot around the cork ball, cut the short line tail off, now I tied the remaining 2lb line with cork ball attached, to the eye of the hook and whipped the 2lb line around the hook shank, the distance between bend of hook and cork ball was about 25mm.
