THE 11/2 BOILIE RIG

This is an example of what you can do with a standard presentation when the carp are getting cagey. By offering 11/2 boilies you’re doing two things; offering them a bait that will be different than the more usual single or double boilie, and also presenting the fish with a boilie whose soft centre is exposed and therefore allows more flavour to leak off.

The boilies can be fished as bottom baits or pop-ups, or as a snowman rig, ie, with the whole boilie being a pop-up to lift the bait off bottom or to make it critically balanced.

There are no rules to say that the whole boilie and the half boilie have to be the same colour and flavour. By presenting a combination of colour and flavour it may give you that extra edge you need to tempt a take.

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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