{"id":4223,"date":"2010-12-19T06:59:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T05:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2021-12-07T15:03:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T14:03:30","slug":"winter-carping-whats-the-best-carp-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/winter-carping-whats-the-best-carp-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter carping &#8211; what&#8217;s the best carp rig?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">This article first appeared on the <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.questbaits.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quest Baits Blog<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&amp; is reproduced with kind permission<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Can you please tell me what you think are the best rigs for winter and the cold weather.\u00a0 Thanks<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cold water rigs for me, differ very little from my normal rigs, however I do like to scale things down somewhat. You have to only go back to your tiddler bashing days to know that fining your rigs down results in more bites and winter feeding, which is often short, highlights this.<\/p>\n<p>There are many rigs in use today however most carp anglers have a failsafe rig which always seems to work for them. The rig that I\u2019ve had my most success with by far, in all conditions, is a simple blow back rig, fined down with a size ten or twelve Mugga hook.\u00a0 This rig has caught me winter carp from day ticket waters, to club lakes to hard UK syndicates with fish up to 36lb in the depths of winter.<\/p>\n<p>The materials I use are a 15lb coated braid hooklink, I like PB products Jelly Wire, Gardner size 8 or 10 Mugga hooks and Fox Teflon rig rings in 3mm.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve pictured the rig here as it is actually on my rods now, a simple split shot at the break in the braided hooklink coating (about 1 1\/2 cm from the hook) is all that you need if you want to use it for pop-ups, a rig that I\u2019ve caught UK carp up to nearly 56lb.<\/p>\n<p>I fish this rig at approx 9 inches to start with, lengthening or shortening as required.\u00a0 Remember if the fish can\u2019t get it in their mouths they can\u2019t get hooked! Two 10mm Quest boilies make the ideal hookbait.<\/p>\n<p>Couple this rig with a running lead, or as I do with a shake free semi fixed lead, and you have everything you could need, come rain or shine, sun or snow!<\/p>\n<p>Good luck, Spencer Humble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article first appeared on the Quest Baits Blog\u00a0&amp; is reproduced with kind permission Can you please tell me what you think are the best rigs for winter and the cold weather.\u00a0 Thanks. Cold water rigs for me, differ very little from my normal rigs, however I do like to scale things down somewhat. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[887],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-carping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27410,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions\/27410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}