Fishing Answers - what is the best rig to use for carp fishing?

what is the best rig to use for carp fishing?

gd tips on which bait to use as well?

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You'll need a heavy line and rod and reel. Snake your line through a sinker with hole going through it. A treble hook is attatched to the end. Make sure the sinker is heavy enough to hold your line under water. check that the line slides easily through the sinker. cover you hook with bait and cast it out. No bobbers. Don't set your reel. The sinker will bring the bait to the bottom. Hold the line in your fingers to feel the carp nibbling. They will mouth the bait and move it a little before trying to swallow it. If they feel resistance they will drop it and try again, and again and again. When they feel no resistance they will pick it up and move away so none of the other carp can get the food. Set your reel. The line will aready be taunt. Set the hook and enjoy the ride. Baits, something to cover the hard hooks. They have very sensitive feel. They hunt by smell. They are omnivores. They will eat anything. Corn, peas, chicken livers, licorice, soap, Fat strips, Breakfast cereal dampened and formed into balls with anything added you want.. Bait shops have some pretty good stuff. They want repeat customers. Tallk to the guys who are catching carp at your spot. Look over their rigs, talk to them. Most fishermen are glad to brag and share some of their top secrets. Ask how they fish. Ask how they set up their rigs. I take a note pad and pen along to write it down. Then they really open up. Of course, then you should see me when I'm approached about my skills. I blab everything. This only touches on the beginings of carp fishing. Now it's time for you to do your homework. Don't forget to ask the people who are already out there how they do it in your neck of the woods er,a , lakes and streams.
corn on a hook. Throw in a few handfuls when you arrive at your spot to chum them in.
use a treble hook with a piece of stink bait and set it on the bottom. If that doesnt work, just chum with bread or corn and float a bread ball about 2-3 feet under the surface..Have fun ----Hope this helps---
I would say to go with a good stiff rod and some 20 pound test spider wire and a good stout reel. I personaly like to use a swivle and hook my weights to it then from your swivle tie about 2 feet of line with your hook a trieble hook would work good and some stink bait would work i'm a fan of chicken liver or hot dogs. Hope that helps your out..... PART 2. 20 pound test spider wire is about the diamteter of 8-10 pound mono line. Its a braided line which means smaller sized more strentgth. So why not have the stronger line?
You DO NOT want to have 20 lb. test. Carp are a smart fish, believe it or not, and are very very line shy. The carp that you do catch on the high lb. test are going to be the small carp (1-3 lbs.) and that defeats the whole purpose of using the heavy line! Use anywhere from 8-12 lb., maybe even 14 lb. test. NO higher. 10 or 12 would be ideal. You will see the more carp you catch on this lighter line than you would a higher pound test. I know this from personal experience. You don't need too stout of a reel. I use rods and reels that are sized for bass, and they do the job quite nicely. I use medium or medium/heavy rods and bass sized reels. You will hear a lot about the "Carolina" rig but i don't use it. It involves you slipping on an egg sinker to your line, tying on a swivel, adding a leader, and tying a hook. Probably is the best rig you can use. I just tie on a #2, or size 2, whatever you want to call it, bait holder hook and then i pinch on the largest split shot i can find at the store. Be sure to pinch it on good, use pliers if you have to, or even your teeth. I catch a lot of carp this way. A lot of people will say corn but i have had no luck with it at all. I use dough ball. Mine is made of peanut butter, bread, maple syrup, and cinnamon. Works really good. If you really don't want to make messy dough ball you can always just use plain bread. Mold the white part of bread around your hook, covering it all. This don't work as good as dough ball but will still catch you some fish. Corn and worms supposedly catch carp but once again i have never caught a carp on corn, or worms. (But i have seen my dad catch ONE carp on a worm, ONE carp. I've used a night crawler on the bottom along with my brother and dad and all we ever catch is bass or bullhead.)
I would say that all of the other answers on here are American, so let me give you an English Point of view as you dont say where abouts your fishing. No way on earth do you ever use trebled hooks for carp fishing!! they are for Pike and Zander! One of the best things to do when you are starting off carp fishing is to keep everything simple including the rigs, hookbait and location of the fish. 2 nice simple rigs for catching carp are the Run Rig and the Bolt Rig, the run rig has a large eyed ring that runs free up the mainline which is stopped by a buffer bead just above the swivel and hooklength, this has no resistance to it whatsoever so will not always hook the fish for you unlike bolt rig, in this case you do not need to strike agressively thus pulling the hook from the mouth, but just gently lift into the fish to hook it. The run rig can be used for close to medium range fishing and is often fished best with slack lines for ultimate bite indication. (another way to improve early indication is to have your rod tip pointing to the hookbait, this will create less angles in the line) The bolt rig is completely different, this involves the use of a lead clip, this holds the lead in one place but releases the lead in the event of it becoming snagged up. this means that as the lead is in a fixed position it has a weight to drive the hook home into the mouth. Both of the rigs are available to buy ready made from companies such as Korda and ESP which is great until you familiarise yourself with the make up of it, and then you can have a go making them yourself. Ive only given you 2 brief descriptions to start you off with, and there are many more rigs out in the carp world!! As for hooklengths, keep them simple, a good 12 - 15lb Flourocarbon hooklength material such as ESP Ghost is a great allrounder!! and average your lengths from 4 - 12inch in length. as for hooks, like i said, DO NOT USE TREBLES as most fisheries ban them and there not neccessary. a good quality carp hook such as ESP Raptors or Nash Fangs are well suited to the job. the most common size i often use for most of my carp fishing are a size 8 - 10. Tie your rigs using a simple Knotless Knot for the hook and a grinner Knot to attach the hooklength to the swivel As for bait it all depends on the fishery, everyone is different!! walk round your local and have a chat with the locals and bailiff to find out the best baits and tactics :) Some good quality Bait companies to use are Mainline, Ritchworth, Dynamite Baits, Quest Baits, Kent particles, Heathrow Bait Services, Premier Baits, CC Moores, Sensas, Van Den Eynde Also many supermarket baits work fine for carp fishing, such as Spam, Cheese, Bread, Pepperami, Tuna, Dog Mixer etc Hope this helps If you need any more help PM me :) All the best Tight Lines <>< <>< <><
As can'tcatch mentioned, the bolt rig with a hair rig hook is the best. It is the way the english and europeans fish for them, as carp is the number 1 game fish over there. Go to the first link in my source and it will show you about the hair rig and bolt rig so you can visualize what he is saying. The pictured bolt rig on that site can be simplified even more as you really just need a 1 ounce egg sinker, a swivel, a monofilament leader and the hair rig. You dont need the fancy shrink tubing you see in that picture. In case you want to try them, I sell hair rigs on ebay. The problem with them is since mainly the uk and europe use them, you have to pay a bundle to get them shipped her, but I am from the usa so you don't have to. Mention you from yahoo and I'll tie you a few extras.