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machine made rigs or hand made ??

Sun, Jan 10 2010 08:26am GMT 1
Team AP
Team AP
105 Posts
There may be some of you anglers out there that do simply not have the time to make new rigs before you go fishing the day before or if your pretty fast tie them while your fishing.

There are loads of tackle shops selling you the items needed to tie your own tipical rig with all sorts including hooks, swivels, easy clips, braid or mono, coated, heat shrink etc by buying these items you can make a good strong standard rig or mabye your own personal rig from using differant items to make your fishing presentation's stand out from the crowd.

On the other hand we have factory made rigs where the machine can probaley produce 10 a minute but using the same items required so if your buying that rig the must have seen it a couple of 100 times and knows that somethings going on with the bait by the rig.

So my thoughts are making your own rig is the best because when it get old and needs changing you can buy the differant item required so i would recommend learning to tie rigs if you havn't already but if you are using those ready made rigs and they are working now, its only a matter of time until you will find your success will go down hill.

BTW I found that esp ready made strip teaze rigs are crap.
Sun, Jan 10 2010 11:50am GMT 2
carpfather (Team AP)
carpfather (Team AP)
3 Posts
fair one mate, some of the ready made rigs the hooks are not sharp, with hand made u can cheack if they are shar by the finger nail test.
Sun, Jan 10 2010 05:30pm GMT 3
little stevee
little stevee
4 Posts

when i used to use the esp ready tied rigs when i started carping, i found they wernt actually as strong as they had labelled them to be, as they wer fraying and even snapping whilst bringing in small f1 carp, has anyone elce found this to be true? ( btw i was using something like the 12lb-15lb ready tied rigs)

Sun, Jan 10 2010 08:51pm GMT 4
fendrod_boy
fendrod_boy
1 Posts

much rather tie my own as preferance in braid and hook dont come as a ready made + if you snap off or there is a nik in the hooklink you got no one else to blame but your self " leave nothing to chance"

Mon, Jan 11 2010 06:17pm GMT 5
swansea carper (Team AP)
swansea carper (Team AP)
14 Posts

I would never buy a ready tied rig, y?? only takes 5 mins the most to make ur own. plus as fendrod boy says if u have a snap off or hook pull, then its only urself to blame, plus id feel more convident using my own tied rig rather than a ready made.

Fri, Jan 22 2010 10:11pm GMT 6
Team AP
Team AP
105 Posts

when i used to use the esp ready tied rigs when i started carping, i found they wernt actually as strong as they had labelled them to be, as they wer fraying and even snapping whilst bringing in small f1 carp, has anyone elce found this to be true? ( btw i was using something like the 12lb-15lb ready tied rigs)

Steve I am glad I am no tthe only one who had this problemLaughing cause I thought I might had been doing something wrong since I had 7 snaps on strip teaze esp ready made back in 2007 when I cba to make them at the time cause i had some friends with me and none off them caught fish :( because of the crap rigs in the pleasure lake in hazel lol Yell

Sat, Dec 11 2010 05:59pm GMT 7
Catch a carp (MOD)
Catch a carp (MOD)
33 Posts
I think like most here I get satisfaction out of tying my own rigs and the joy of knowing how to tie them. However if one needs convenience the things are there if one needs them

Mike
Tue, Apr 26 2011 05:57pm BST 8
essexjack
essexjack
1 Posts
always tie my own rigs! i cant trust buying them as you dont know if it was made proply which is costing you a fish if you loose it. make them yourself .. you also save loads of money and you can only blame yourself
Sun, Jun 12 2011 06:51pm BST 9
CG
CG
5 Posts
always tie my own :') if they snap, or the knot comes undone, ive only got myself to blame, plus its far cheaper to make ya own :P
Wed, Dec 7 2011 07:55am GMT 10
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samenzhen
43 Posts
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Wed, Feb 22 2012 06:04pm GMT 11
Mike (Weed Camo)
Mike (Weed Camo)
3 Posts
I always tie my own and now days I tie rigs to sale , but they all get the same test and loving care that I give my own rigs , infact if I need a rig I often just raid any stock I have, I also sell my own material for my customers to make there own rigs and have a step by step guide for them to use. "Get on the Weed "

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