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By Team Screaming Delkims In Part 1 We will be showing how various rigs, hooklength materials, baits & anti-tangle tubing appear in contrast to the different bottom sediments. Also how the wrong choice of lead could be the difference between success & failure. We will also show you what may happen to your rig when it hits the lake bed, things may not appear what they seem. There will be plenty of photos to accompany the article and we will also be showing some underwater video footage that may raise an eyebrow or two. So if you have been having a bad season, this article may just explain why.
Introduction
If you ask any carp fisherman what he thought was the most important aspect of carp fishing, nine out of ten times he will say “The rig”. What do we mean by “the rig”? Well the rig is basically the end with the hook on and its this that gets fine tuned to such a degree so that the fish can’t detect it. This is the idea anyway, and with all the high tech ‘rig building’ materials available on the market today, it makes it easier to achieve that “perfect” rig. Over the last 20 years rigs have dramatically changed and new ones keep emerging all the time in the ongoing battle to fool the wary old carp. So do rigs matter? Some say yes others say no. Here in Sweden some people say that these new high tech fandangled rigs are not necessary and any old bog standard hair rig will catch carp. Yes that’s all well and fine and yes they do catch a lot of carp. But it has certainly got to be an advantage to the angler if the rig is camouflaged better. Some rigs are designed to get a better hook hold on the fish and if it works then this has got to be another advantage as well In this article we will be showing complete rigs, the hooklength, lead and clip, and rig tube. We constructed several rigs out of different materials to show what they looked like on the bottom. The area we chose for this article was a sandy bottom and we will show you photos of how well the rigs were, or were not camouflaged depending on the materials used in constructing the rigs. Then we built a rig from materials which we thought would be best suited to that particular lake bed.

In all the photos the rigs are sitting in the way that they landed on the cast and have not been adjusted or moved in any way. This is to show you the possibilities of how your rig could land and is certainly worth thinking about the next time you do cast out a rig. After all, 99% of the time you won’t know how it has landed as you can’t see it.		We have taken photographs of several rigs and also given details of the materials that we have used. We have also written a conclusion about each rig on the points that we noticed and what we thought would be the best rig and materials to use in this situation Hopefully this will give you a better insight as to what can happen under the water and then you can, if you so wish, change your rigs accordingly. The problem is that you won’t be able to see your rig when it has settled, so by preventing the possibilities of any problems before they occur should give you a better chance of landing a carp or two.
Location

Venue:	Härlanda Tjärn
Location:	Björkekärr, Göteborg, Sweden.
Area:	The Big Rock swim (Stora Stenen) No.16 on the Swim Map
Lake Bed:	Sand
Depth:	Upto 2 Meters
Bottom Sediment:	Sand / Gravel with stoney & vegetation patches
Photos Date:	October 2005
		Ariel map - Härlanda Tjärn

The Big Rock Swim - Härlanda Tjärn		Swim Map & Depth Chart - Härlanda Tjärn
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Team Screaming Delkims 2005