Ultimate Rig? Transferred

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well explained smokey

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Originally Posted by kevw

No matter how good a rig is surely it's the bait and application of it that tempts the fish into taking a look.

An angler using the ultimate bait, one that a fish couldn't resist, would win every time over the angler with the ultimate rig.

I don't think that there is an ultimate rig!

In my opinion it couldn't happen because different fish feed in different ways and how you feed can make a rig more or less efficient.

Fish that suck and blow and fish that pick up items, or even the area of the lake, whether silt, gravel, sand or clay will all make a difference. To me you can play around with running and semi-fixed leads, hair length, rig length, but you have to be watching the water and examining where you hook fish you have landed, and whether you are getting hookpulls to put that rig to most effect.

The biggest leveller in fishing was the hair, but it is still evolving adaptations for all of our fishing. You can see from Rig names that rigs are developed by different people for different waters and purposes (even if some are a re-hash of past works).
Withy Pool rig, Jonny Mac Rig, KD rig some of the latest wonders in an attempt to fool the little beauties.

Each rig has to be utilised for how the fish feed, and where they are feeding. The same short hair rig may not work on gravel that works in silt where the fish are digging into pick up the hookbait amongst their food. The longer hair that works on gravel where the carp are sucking and blowing may not work in that silt.

Add into that our choice of hooklink material and there can be no perfect rig for every situation.

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Originally Posted by AshyLFCz

How can there be an ultimate rig, as fish will always adapt and change, the hair rig was obviousy amazing when it was first introduced, and still is, but obviously some clever fish can detect this, and wont take it, otherwise catch rates would be alot higher than they are

Or most people are fishing exactly the same or fishing very similar scenarios, tight lines, semi-fixed leads with a stick or mesh/bag

Those who change the baiting, make a bait available or do something different may often be those who catch more.

I have given my rigs to other anglers on the lake, I have given away bait I had at the end of the session to other anglers as I could not or would not bait up over other people, yet my results may be slightly better than others on the same lake.