Surface.fishing..hair or not??

Just lately i've been doin pretty well fishing for carp 'off the top', It
seems that i've found the correct way of hooking my bread, and my knot is
holding, all day and 10 carp later it's still doing the job..(Carp average
about 6.5 lb ), I'm using 8lb strain, does 'using a hair-rig' work well when
fishing for surface feeding carp, as I haven't tried it as the method @ the
minute is doing OK..I thought about the possability of 'foul hooking' them
during placement and retrieval of bait, is this a problem.??
Cheers ..FRED C

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:27:20 +0100, "fredcromer"
fred@carpcaughtandnospamplease wrote:

Just lately i've been doin pretty well fishing for carp 'off the top', It
seems that i've found the correct way of hooking my bread, and my knot is
holding, all day and 10 carp later it's still doing the job..(Carp average
about 6.5 lb ), I'm using 8lb strain, does 'using a hair-rig' work well when
fishing for surface feeding carp, as I haven't tried it as the method @ the
minute is doing OK..I thought about the possability of 'foul hooking' them
during placement and retrieval of bait, is this a problem.??
Cheers ..FRED C

If its workin for u, dont fix it.
With bread, I dont think it matters.
With boilies, paste, etccccccc it probably does.

In article , fredcromer
URL:mailto:fred@carpcaughtandnospamplease wrote:
Just lately i've been doin pretty well fishing for carp 'off the top', It
seems that i've found the correct way of hooking my bread, and my knot is
holding, all day and 10 carp later it's still doing the job..(Carp average
about 6.5 lb ), I'm using 8lb strain, does 'using a hair-rig' work well when
fishing for surface feeding carp,

Why complicate matters?

You'll be awake and paying attention to your bait. Just strike in the time
honoured way and leave hair rigs to the chaps snoozing behind the high-tech
bite indicators.

Cheerio,

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"fredcromer" fred@carpcaughtandnospamplease wrote in message
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Just lately i've been doin pretty well fishing for carp 'off the top', It
seems that i've found the correct way of hooking my bread, and my knot is
holding, all day and 10 carp later it's still doing the job..(Carp average
about 6.5 lb ), I'm using 8lb strain, does 'using a hair-rig' work well
when
fishing for surface feeding carp, as I haven't tried it as the method @
the
minute is doing OK..I thought about the possability of 'foul hooking' them
during placement and retrieval of bait, is this a problem.??
Cheers ..FRED C


Hair rig certainly works and will certainly offer advantages for certain
baits ..... probably not bread though. The provision of a hair rig is simple
to provide (simple loop & knotless knot) and takes only a minute. I used a
single piece of plastic maize on a short hair rig with a No10 hook last
week. Presentation was excellent and it floated nicely. I had two takes
quite rapidly, one mirror and one jack pike.

HTH ...... Richard

WoW, didn't think a pike'd go for plazy maize, but there ya' go....i'm
favouring bread at the mo, so i'll use a hair and knotless with the phoney
sweetcorn,and pop ups......