A recent trip to one of my syndicates saw me bank another 30lb common known as the ‘Elusive Common’ at 33lb 2oz. The fish fell to a corkball pop up fished on a Chod Rig consisting of an ESP Stiff Rigger Hook, Gardner Tripwire and 9 ft of ESP Original Camo Leadcore.
The fish was backed up with a small stocky and a lovely dark 25lb mirror.
Tight Lines
Dave
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A recent quick overnighter saw me bank a new PB in the shape of a fish known as the ‘Long Common’ at 34lb 2oz. The fish fell to a corkball pop up fished on a chod rig consisting of an ESP Stiff Rigger Hook, Gardner Tripwire and 6 ft of ESP Original Camo Leadcore.
Tight Lines
Dave
Customer Adam Holmes has had the big one out of his local lake. Here’s what Adam had to say :-
A nice result for Ben recently with this 29lb 4oz mirror carp from Wellingborough Lakes. Ben was using Mainline Activ-8 boilies scattered over a wide area. Fishing to a silty area Ben used a chod rig tied with a size 5 ESP Stiff Rigger hook on a readymade Ace Hard On Camo Leadcore Helicopter/Chod Rigs . Well done Ben.
Best Fishes,
John
The Three Turn Blood Knot is commonly used when tying up a chod rig using ESP Stiff Rig Bristle Filament . Because the bristle filament is so thick and stiff most other knots are just too difficult too tie. Ordinarily I would not recommend a blood knot as it is a strangulation knot, but for this purpose I and many others find it more than adequate. It is also handy because it is quite easy to set the length of your chod rig with this knot. The Three Turn Blood Knot is tied to the ring swivel of the chod rig. In this demonstation I am using size 9 ESP Uni-Link Carp Swivels. Ok, on with the demonstration.
Step 1
Thread your stiff rig filament through the uni-link swivel
Step 2
Loop the bristle filament round the uni-link swivel
Step 3
Holding the uni-link swivel and the loop whip the tag end around the main hooklink going away from the swivel do this three times.
Step 4
Bring your tag end back and thread it through the loop at the swivel end
Step 5
Moisten the knot and bed down, cut off the tag end leaving a small tag
3 Turn Blood Knot
Best fishes,
John
Regular customer Scott had a nice result recently. Fishing an afternoon session at a local lake Scott had two doubles, the biggest of which was a 16lb 6oz common(shown below). Scott caught his fish using a chod rig constructed from ESP Bulk Spool Leadcore in choddy silt and the new ESP Curve Shanx Carp Hook . Well done Scott!
Best fishes,
John
Just a quick note for you carpers out there. The New ESP Curve Shanx Carp Hook is now in. This new hook from ESP is teflon coated and looks ideal for the curved chod rig. It also looks as if it would be perfect for the Withy Pool Rig. The ESP Curve Shanx comes in sizes 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 for more information or to purchase follow the above link.
The Domhoff/Dumhoff Knot is a whipping knot traditionally used to attach line to spade end hooks. However more recently it has become very popular in tying The Chod Rig and The Hinged Stiff Rig. These two rigs are normally tied using hooks with an out turned eye some good examples are, the ESP Stiff Rigger MK2 , The Korda Choddy Hook and the Gardner D-Ceptor Carp Hook.
Step 1
Form a loop in your hooklink material
Step 2
Lay the loop against your hook and grip firmly
Step 3
Wind the hooklink once round the hook away from the join in the hooks eye
Step 4
Grip the turn with your opposite hand and continue winding the line round the shank of the hook towards the point. Do as many turns as is necessary, at least five.
Step 5
Pass the end of the hooklink that you have been winding round the hookshank through the loop created in step 2.
Step 6
Lubricate the turns with saliva and pull the two ends of the hooklink.
Step 7
Trim the tag end.
Step 8
Finally bed the knot down to the eye and you’re done.
That’s it, hopefully you will now be able to add the Domhoff/Dumhoff Knot to your carp fishing armoury.
Best fishes,
John
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