Wow... this rig is big in the game.. it even has its own Instagram account.. Do I need to be using it?? 
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I was curious about the viper rig. The videos from estate lakes are enthusiastic rather than hype I think. I tried it a few times last year on a runs water. It worked well enough and didn't cause any obvious problem. I plan to try it later this week in a method ball. Has anyone else tried it?
I was curious about the viper rig. The videos from estate lakes are enthusiastic rather than hype I think. I tried it a few times last year on a runs water. It worked well enough and didn't cause any obvious problem. I plan to try it later this week in a method ball. Has anyone else tried it?
What next a RT4 rig 😉
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I have the sets and keep meaning to try term in anger.
The problem for me is this.
I have to bend the eye on the chod hook further round until it is perpendicular with the shank for this rig to work. This hooks I have tried this on, half have broken. Which doesn't fill me with confidence if I hook a fish , will the hook be damaged and break during the battle?
The second thing is tangles. To cast it out you really need PVA foam. I have a terrible track record with pva foam. It always seem to either come straight off when it hits the water , or doesn't melt and I wind it in in the morning and it'd still there.
In terms of the actual rig, I think it's awesome and it works perfectly. I just need to get the right hooks and figure out the pva issue and I will give them a try. Maybe I could use pva tape. Bug then if the hook is wet and you try to use tape it will melt straight away.
I have the sets and keep meaning to try term in anger.
The problem for me is this.
I have to bend the eye on the chod hook further round until it is perpendicular with the shank for this rig to work. This hooks I have tried this on, half have broken. Which doesn't fill me with confidence if I hook a fish , will the hook be damaged and break during the battle?
The second thing is tangles. To cast it out you really need PVA foam. I have a terrible track record with pva foam. It always seem to either come straight off when it hits the water , or doesn't melt and I wind it in in the morning and it'd still there.
In terms of the actual rig, I think it's awesome and it works perfectly. I just need to get the right hooks and figure out the pva issue and I will give them a try. Maybe I could use pva tape. Bug then if the hook is wet and you try to use tape it will melt straight away.
Maybe I'm looking again it wrong, but it looks pretty awful to me. Sure the hook spins and drops when the bait is sucked it, but it looks like the bait fixed where it is, when it's blown out its going to want to flip the hook round to be facing the wrong direction so it exits the mouth bend first.
So it's kind of like a spinner rig, but worse.
So it's kind of like a spinner rig, but worse.
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Really interesting this
You did better on hook bending than I did. I broke every trig hammer and chodhammer I tried it on. I found some nash hooks and got some of those to work. The rig looked awkward so I purchased some made up ones. When I compared them to my efforts they were the same, just tied more professionally. I also saw that the eyes were not bent over as far as on my efforts.
I tried them on the margins of a run water and they worked well. I cast and retrieved a few times and it hadn't tangled. I left it out and caught on a pop up . Short cast and small fish but it passed my little test. Whether or not my usual multirig would have performed better, I cannot say.
Still interested in trying them on longer casts and bigger fish. Like you I wonder about tangles. I hadn't thought of pva nuggets, I'm going to push one rig into a method ball and just cast out the other with a bottom bait. Hoping to try it out later this week.
Really interesting this
You did better on hook bending than I did. I broke every trig hammer and chodhammer I tried it on. I found some nash hooks and got some of those to work. The rig looked awkward so I purchased some made up ones. When I compared them to my efforts they were the same, just tied more professionally. I also saw that the eyes were not bent over as far as on my efforts.
I tried them on the margins of a run water and they worked well. I cast and retrieved a few times and it hadn't tangled. I left it out and caught on a pop up . Short cast and small fish but it passed my little test. Whether or not my usual multirig would have performed better, I cannot say.
Still interested in trying them on longer casts and bigger fish. Like you I wonder about tangles. I hadn't thought of pva nuggets, I'm going to push one rig into a method ball and just cast out the other with a bottom bait. Hoping to try it out later this week.