It was a masterclass from both anglers, but it feels like you need to do some GCSE revision to remember what the answers were. Last year, Rob Hughes got on his diving kit and asked Lee Morris to wang leads at him for a Fox video that would definitively answer the tricky question about how far past your marker you need to cast and clip up.
It seems quite sad, then, to realise there hasn’t been a single recorded sale of flying backleads since 2004. Pinning it all downĪs underwater footage showed wary carp wafting and flapping their fins to seemingly detect line, it became imperative for all anglers to use weight to pin down their main line and leaders. Many underwater vids and clips have shown just how tricky it is for carp to deal with stiff presentations, yet a quick rig check at a busy day-ticket water would show very few anglers using purely stiff rigs. The presentation remains as deadly as ever, but has definitely been pushed down the charts by the more fashionable Ronnie and Multi Rigs. Fairbrass catch a 40lb-plus common with his take on the Hinged Stiff Rig. You might sit there and chuckle at the memory, but maybe secret squirrels in the Colne Valley are right now smashing waters to bits on grapes and plums…Ī young Elliott Gray gatecrashed the second part of Korda Underwater 8 and instantly helped Mr.
Matt Hayes once travelled to Italy for one of his Lake Escapes programmes and, with an underwater camera attached to his lead, caught a fish on a Hair-rigged strawberry. Maybe one of the greatest baits of our time has been hiding in plain sight for years. Definitely one to block from your mind! 5. Korda famously premiered one of their Underwater films at a cinema in Essex, and most of the audience trudged out afterwards depressed at how often carp pick up your bait and don’t get hooked. How often they get away with itĪll other items on this list are things we’ve accidentally forgotten, but this is something we all choose to forget for the sake of our sanity. But we all quickly forgot to load up on 5-ouncers! 4. Remember Rich ‘Cash’ Farnan and Mark Bryant’s Lifting the Lid on Gravel Pits DVD, shot underwater at Hardwick Smith’s? The key finding from it was just how little resistance and hooking power standard leads of 2oz or 3oz provide.
And then, in a huge about turn, we all decided that bright-pink leads were much better for attracting carp, before coming to our senses with browns and greens again. Clear leads were briefly the must-have item, based on the underwater theory that they blended in like fluorocarbon. There was a short - and bizarre - period in carp-fishing history in which we all became fixated by leads.
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