fishing a livebait.

Member Joined: Nov 18, 2006 Posts: 80 Location: cardiff

take leaf out of a carp fishers rigs and use a modified version of a bolt rig (i.e have a smll hook in front of a large one like a pennall)bait the small hook up to the large,then cast out, hopefully a small whiting or pout will take the small hook leaving the larger one exposed.you then have a perfect livebait not damaged or stuned by casting.
warning............
i always fish two rods when fishing this way as you could hook the livebait but no larger fish comes across it.

Joined: Jul 02, 2006 Posts: 3

Good tip, What would u expect to get on that rig?

Congor, Doggies, Ray, Spur etc ?

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:35 pm

natmatlew wrote:

take leaf out of a carp fishers rigs and use a modified version of a bolt rig (i.e have a smll hook in front of a large one like a pennall)bait the small hook up to the large,then cast out, hopefully a small whiting or pout will take the small hook leaving the larger one exposed.you then have a perfect livebait not damaged or stuned by casting.
warning............
i always fish two rods when fishing this way as you could hook the livebait but no larger fish comes across it.

eh, as a match carp angler i would just like to add that your wrong in stating this is called a bolt rig, a bolt rig is a rig where the lead is fixed(wont slide) so the fish hooks itself against the weight.
Your thinking of a hair rig where there is the hook which the fish hooks itself with, and a small item used to attach the bait(never actually another hook for fish safety reasosn)

sorry but i had to clear that up, using this pennel effect it works very well for larger predatory fish such as cod as well as conger to name a couple happy


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