POLE FLOATER RIG

On a recent carp fishing trip, many fish were happily taking floaters beneath an overhanging tree. Fishing a surface bait with the line on top of the water was refused every time.


What I needed was the beachcaster rig, but water depth combined with overhanging greenery ruled that out.

My next idea was to attach the line from my carp rod to the end of a pole using a float band.

The bait could then be shipped out under the tree and suspended with no line on the surface. With the pole held in rests to keep the bait just on the surface I sat back, rod in hand, and waited for the action. When the carp took, the tension of the pole helped to prick him, and as he shot off the float band was pulled off the pole tip, leaving me clear to play him.

About the Rigs Page

The Rigs Page is a library of features to illustrate all those rigs that will be useful to both beginners and experienced anglers.

The rigs can be extremely simple and well known, or very complicated and little known, it doesn’t matter providing they make some kind of sense and have a really practical application.

It could be a standard running leger rig that a beginner will appreciate seeing in pictures, or a very complicated anti-eject carp rig that the experienced carp angler would like to see.

If you wish to contribute a rig to this section please remember that the emphasis is on illustration rather than words. Good line drawings are fine in the absence of photographs. Please send to graham@fishingmagic.com

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