How To Tie Really Short Chod & Hinge Rigs | Roo Abbott
The Hinged Stiff Rig is one of the best Carp Rigs of all time, but how short should the Chod section be? Roo Abbott explains...
At Grenville recently, I had to make a slight adjustment to my Rigs. With Spinner Rigs banned, I needed to make a Pop-up Rig that replicated them as closely as possible. The answer was the Hinged Stiff...
Using our Chods Away Rigs, I decided to make my Hinge Rigs shorter than usual, so my hookbait popped up but was still as close to the bottom as possible. All I needed was some of our Vitabitz Crimps...
- Cut the Swivel off a Long Chods Away.
- Slide on a Vitabitz Crimp.
- Adjust the Hooklink to the length you want.
- Slide the line back through the other side of the Crimp and close down.
I've caught and watched others catch well on these mega-short Hinge Rigs for a while now. If you love the Hinge but just want a bait that little closer to the lakbed, you need to get crimping!
Roo Abbott is one of the shining stars of the OMC Team. An experienced carp angler, Roo specialises in French carp fishing, particularly at venues that permit boats. He also recently starred in the Grand Fishing Adventure Underwater.
