Something I'm having a play around with is separating the lead and hook link on my chod rigs. After a take the hooklinks always slide down to the buffer sleeve pushed over the lead link and I've always thought this was the cause of dropped fish shortly after a take on a choddy. With the lead hanging so close to the Carps mouth it gives ample leverage and weight for the hook to be thrown by a good head shake.
What I'm playing with at the moment is extending where the weight sits after a take, it's not an original idea, Jim Shelly uses this method but I'm unsure if it's for the same 'dropped fish' reason. A knot is tied in the lead core about six inches up from the lead, a good tight fitting bead then sits against this knot and stops the hooklink sliding all the way down to the lead.
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| Chod knotted six inches up from lead. |
This separation should relieve some of the leverage created by a fishes head shake and keep the hook in place. (That's the theory anyway!)
The one problem I have found is that after a few fish have been caught the tight fitting bead eventually slides over the knot and down to the lead, I've now changed this knot in the leader to a heavy rig ring with no chance of the bead being able to slide over this and so far there's been no problems. Six inches of lead core is used between the rig ring and the lead.
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| Knot replaced with rig ring. |
There is the option to replace this short piece of leadcore with knotted mono and use as a weak link, some good quality PVA string would have to be used to tie the lead to the ring when casting.
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