Carp Catchers Blog

Just a quick word to let you know about the new rod licence system. When you renew your rod licence this year whether at the Post Office or online you will be given a unique reference number. Keep this number safe and with you when fishing as this will be proof, should you be asked for your licence, that you have paid. You will receive a credit card style licence through the post in due course.

Best fishes,

John

We’ve had a few new products in so I will give you a quick run down. First up we have the new Wychwood Solace Carp Rods  , these look superb with a really cool matt finish, gun metal trim rings and a signature carbon weave butt grip. Couple the price with the unconditional lifetime policy and these rods are well worth a look. On the terminal tackle front we have the new  Korda Wide Gape X Hooks  which are a stepped up version of their ever popular wide gape pattern. The Wide Gape X is the ideal snag fishing hook. From Gardner Tackle we have the dual purpose Power Lifter Weigh Bar  and the Scorpion Stik  , which is just the job for getting those boilies out at distance. Finally the new  Korda Thinking Tackle Series 3  DVD is also now available featuring season three of the popular Sky TV series. For more information or to purchase please follow the above links.

Best fishes,

John

Customer Tom The Fox Cox outwitted this awesome pike with a suspended roach from our deadbait section. Toms’ hefty pike weighed 19lb 4oz and was caught from the banks of a reservoir. An awesome catch well done Tom!

Best fishes,

John

The KD Rig is named after Kenny Dorset the angler who developed it. The KD rigs advantage is that it increases bait separation and kicks the hook out at a more aggressive angle than the standard knotless knot. I have seen it tied using braid, but in my opinion a soft hooklink and a soft hair will negate the supposed above advantages. However many of the braid tied variations that I’ve seen are pop up rigs with a shot on the hair. In this demonstration I have used a soft fluorocarbon, which is still stiff enough to provide the above advantages ie. increased bait separation and an aggressive hooking angle. If you want to use a pop up with the stiffer version shown here you will need to put some tungsten putty on the hooklink itself. This will make this version of the KD rig an even better hooker in my opinion than the braid tied one. If anyone would like me to expand on the bait separation issue which I think is crucial to most rig mechanics please leave a comment. The components I used to tie the KD rig are ESP Soft Ghost  and Gardner Incizor Carp Hooks 

Step 1

Cut a length of the Ghost Fluorocarbon and tie a small overhand knot for the boilie stop

Step 2

Thread on your boilie and put a boilie stop in the loop. The reason for putting the boilie on before you tie the rig is to enable you to set the hair to the correct length.

Step 3

Set the hair so that there is a 10cm gap between the bottom of the bait and the top of the hook

Step 4

Thread the end of your Ghost hooklink through the eye of the hook

Step 4

Whip two turns of your hooklink around the shank making sure to whip away from the join in the eye of the hook

Step 5

Now let the bait drop and whip a further 3 to 5 turns under the hair

Step 6

Thread the tag end of the Ghost as per photo

Step 7

Moisten and bed down the knot here I am using The Korda Pulla Tool

Step 8

Tie a figure of eight loop knot at the other end, moisten and bed down. If you don’t know how to tie this knot see previous blog

The finished KD Rig

Best fishes

John