This follows on from a topic discussed in the Forum – ‘Carp/What can I make?’
My favourite means of carrying hooklengths and small rigs is with a rig bin. Unfortunately, as far as I know, the only ones made commercially are for pike traces and therefore too large for ordinary nylon and braid hooklengths and other smaller rigs.
But making your own rig bin to whatever size suits you is simplicity itself. 
1.Buy a screw-cap food container of the size that suits you from any supermarket.
2.Take a length of pipe insulation of the right diameter and cut off a length to suit the container.
3.Hot-glue the pipe insulation to the underside of the screw-cap.
4.Now insert a number of map pins around the pipe insulation in a spiral pattern and
5.Bingo! There you have it, a brand new, custom-built rig bin.
If you want to carry huge end rigs, of the type suitable for catching big cats, then take a leaf out of Budgie Burgess’s book and use half a waste bin!
Budgie says: ‘If you can’t get a suitable piece of round foam for these big rig bins then take a suitable tube or other tin and wrap and glue flat foam around it.’
