Evening,
Has anyone had much luck with any form of rig utilising hemp as bait? Wether that be natural or plastic hemp. Have you found hemp works better with a lighter more supple rig or has anyone had any joy using stiffer materials? Looking for ideas really. Any help appreciated.
Has anyone had much luck with any form of rig utilising hemp as bait? Wether that be natural or plastic hemp. Have you found hemp works better with a lighter more supple rig or has anyone had any joy using stiffer materials? Looking for ideas really. Any help appreciated.
When my mate fished fox pool it was easy for him to see in the gin clear water that when fishing with hemp the fish would come in and only eat the hemp making sure to avoid any other baits even a few grains of maize or a few tigers would be left to over come this he would have 2 hairs one straight off the hooklength swivel and the normal one on the hook on the one on the hooklength he'd put a blatant bait like a fluoro popup and on the hook would put just a couple of grains of artificial hemp doing this he manage a fair few of the a team and was one of the top rods, pretty sure he just the old multi strand material from kryston (the name of which evades me) I'm not sure how this anti tangle this would be asI'm sure he was just fishing marginal spots where he could just lower in the rig.
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Kryston bogey is perfect for making little hemp hookbaits
Kryston bogey is perfect for making little hemp hookbaits
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Good angling!
To OP, couple of small black baits will work, black beads also.
Good angling!
To OP, couple of small black baits will work, black beads also.
Remember back in late 90's early 2000's on Christchurch lake Linch Hill, few guys used hemp in tights as hookbaits. Pretty much like meshing boilies up, they had some decent results. Other than that I've used the Kryston Bogey, pretty messy gear tho!
Maybe a small black tiger nut over the top ?
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Coooor
Haven't seen any bogey for years
Last pot I had it ended up all in my tackle box
Coooor
Haven't seen any bogey for years
Last pot I had it ended up all in my tackle box
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When feeding over very small particles like hemp, and small pellet, the carp are just hoovering up the hemp without seeing individual items, so you don't need hemp on a hair or anything that looks like hemp.
All you need is a short hooklink 3" to 4", and a hook which is critically balanced, either by supergluing a small piece of black foam on the back of the hook or small pieces of foam on a hair, trim the foam so the hook just sinks. Then add a small pva bag of hemp or pellet, about 50p size, just nicked onto the hook,.
The fish will suck the lot up in one go, I've used this numerous times when stalking in the margins, its often the only way to get a bite when the carp get preoccupied on very small food items.
Carp love small seeds and pellets but do get preoccupied on them, I've seen it numerous times when they won't accept bigger food items , small boilies, tiger nuts, and bogey are often too big and are just rejected.
When feeding over very small particles like hemp, and small pellet, the carp are just hoovering up the hemp without seeing individual items, so you don't need hemp on a hair or anything that looks like hemp.
All you need is a short hooklink 3" to 4", and a hook which is critically balanced, either by supergluing a small piece of black foam on the back of the hook or small pieces of foam on a hair, trim the foam so the hook just sinks. Then add a small pva bag of hemp or pellet, about 50p size, just nicked onto the hook,.
The fish will suck the lot up in one go, I've used this numerous times when stalking in the margins, its often the only way to get a bite when the carp get preoccupied on very small food items.
Carp love small seeds and pellets but do get preoccupied on them, I've seen it numerous times when they won't accept bigger food items , small boilies, tiger nuts, and bogey are often too big and are just rejected.
Thanks guys
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I used to use small black sea anglers beads on the hair, with a white boilie stop.
A size 8 hook, short hair on a short braid rig over plenty of hemp.
I used to use small black sea anglers beads on the hair, with a white boilie stop.
A size 8 hook, short hair on a short braid rig over plenty of hemp.
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+1, and popping it up sticking it to a cork ball, messy job though, but fun....that takes me back
+1, and popping it up sticking it to a cork ball, messy job though, but fun....that takes me back
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I love the artificial hemp of enterprise tackle.
It has that white bit on it, and it can be soaked in some liquid
I love the artificial hemp of enterprise tackle.
It has that white bit on it, and it can be soaked in some liquid