Angling Lines Blog

It’s that tim­­­­­­­e of year again when we start dreaming of our summer holidays in France.  The days are starting to draw out and it’s time to start dusting down the rods and think about planning our trips.  I have been to La Bletiere four times over the last four years and have booked a two week stint for the first two weeks of April this year (I also have a further week booked in July) much as my family and I love this place.

Whilst our business is all about providing great carp fishing holidays in France we do also have a great on-line video library of carp fishing hints & tips.

You can find 54 videos here – http://www.anglinglines.com/videos/technical.php

Subjects covered include long range casting, feature finding, bait storage, tackle & tactics – it’s a really useful resource for any carp angler.

Here’s our latest offering in which Paul Cooper shows you how to construct the Sliding D-Rig…

Carp Fishing

Paul Cooper shows you how to construct the Line Aligner rig.

Note from Paul; “The Line Aligner rig was first used in the early days of carp fishing and was introduced by Jim Gibbinson. This rig has accounted for the capture of thousands of carp and when fished in the right situation is exceptional.

I’ve personally captured hundreds of carp on this rig and to this date it still remains one of my all time favourite rigs. It’s easy to tie and takes minutes to complete a rig. The rig can be used with snowman rigs, pop-ups and bottom baits all with good effect. I’ve put this video together showing how easy and straight forward this rig is to tie.”

Carp Fishing

Free Running and Dropper Rigs

by Chas Cook

A large proportion of anglers carp fishing in France still prefer to use free running lead set-ups incorporating little or no bolt effect.  This combination of no bolt effect, slack lines and slack bait runners results in many anglers missing many takes, or when the anglers are winding down to the carp and striking to set the hooks, the carp either pull the hooks or cut themselves off.

The bolt effect in the rig I’m about to describe is achieved by the swivel being pushed firmly home into the Fox in-line sleeve.  This set-up lends itself to fishing to open water marks and is very good on lakes with silty bottoms and also with some weed cover.  When casting this rig to the anglers’ spots the multiple pva foamed hook length feathers the lead through the water bringing it to rest as shown in Photo 9 below.  The rig is also good on waters where there is heavy silt.

Using this rig, I have caught many wary carp on pressured venues.  When the bait enters the carp’s mouth, the weight of the lead pricks the carp and as soon as it tries to dislodge the hook by shaking it’s head or spinning on the spot, the swivel pulls from the lead and the rig immediately becomes a free running set-up.  The carp believes it has dislodged the lead set-up and rapidly leaves the area, resulting in a one-toner take.

The rig can be used with a pop-up or bottom bait or critically balanced bait set-up;  the mainline is fished slack and bait runners are engaged.  It is the only time I use bait runners.

The Free Running Rig This rig has been shown in past UK carp magazines and retains the lead.  It is a free running rig incorporating a bolt effect and is for slack lines and baitrunners.   Component parts;   *  3oz – 5oz distance lead   *  Fox inline inner sleeve

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Carp Fishing in France

Chas Cook is the owner of Vaux French carp lake.  This is the 5th article in an excellent series which gives you instruction on how to construct a series of carp rigs he’s used to great effect for his carp fishing in France. You can read all the articles here.

Both of the following rigs have, once again, been used to great effect when fishing to open water marks using the bag and double foamed hook length, so that neither rig sinks into the silt.  They are particularly effective when fishing to far banks, islands and lily pads over lake bottoms of sand and gravel.  Takes result in drop backs on swingers and single beeps on buzzers as the carp leave the bank and islands on the reverse.  The weight of the lead rapidly transfers to the point of the hook; in these situations 12lb fluorocarbon mainline is used, 30lb low profile leaders and semi tight clutches – not bait runners.

Bottom baits are used when carp are feeding along the far banks, but in the summer when  temperatures are higher, they spend more time in the pads or on the surface under the trees along the far bank and so 40-60mm pop-ups are used on a chod set-up.  Zig rigs can also be used off both helicopter set-ups, fishing to variable depths of water wherever the carp are lying in the lake and using 30-50mm pop-ups apple core shaped.  The zigs are designed to put the rigs as close as possible to the basking carp;  even if they are not feeding, carp at rest will naturally try to take a pop-up if a zig drops close to them.

How To Construct Helicopter Rigs…

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Fishing Holiday at Vaux