CARP HACKS

Many anglers struggle to tie ultra-short chods, but it's child's play if you use our crimping hack simple

Make the perfect ‘mini chod rig’ and learn a brilliant ‘scatterbaiting’ trick with a Spomb

FEW rigs of the modern era can match the impact of the chod rig over the past decade.

Although the concept was being played around with for a number of years under another moniker – the ‘silt’ rig – it wasn’t until the carp monthlies started publishing details of the set-up in its new incarnation that it began to find a place in every carp angler’s tackle box.

There’s little doubting the chod rig’s effectiveness at presenting a pop-up boilie over light weed or other lakebed detritus, but in order to get the best out of the set-up, the mechanics need to be spot-on. This entials tying the hooklink section to the correct height so that it sits perfectly in the carp’s eyeline. This is one area that many anglers struggle with. In order for it to work correctly, the chod rig should be tied with a stiff hooklink material, of which there are many types on the market from companies such as Gardner, Nash, E-S-P and Korda.

The most common problem encountered is an inability to tie the rigs short enough because of the springiness of the material, but that issue is easily circumnavigated if you use our crafty mini crimping hack.

By following the sequence detailed below, you will soon be able to tie perfect chod rigs as ‘short’ as you like, without worrying about kinking the hooklink material or losing any of the rig’s inherent strength. To illustrate the point , we’ve tied one up here measuring just 1.5ins long, and it took less than a minute to do it.

Get a crimping kit (the one we’ve used here is from Wychwood), and you’ll be a ‘chod master’ in no time!