The Ronnie Rig

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WHEN AND WHERE

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• Combines a low sitting pop up with great spinning and hooking properties

RONNIE RIG

• Best with a boilie only approach • Brilliant where chods and jointed stiff links have been heavily fished • Carp friendly bent hook performance, use for fish of all sizes • Effective anywhere you get a drop on the lead – but not in weed • Like the Multi Rig, hooks can be changed instead of complete links

It’s the biggest news since the chod – Nashbait Brand Manager Max Hendry explains why the Ronnie Rig is the one stop solution for more takes and better hookholds.

The Ronnie Rig is a revolution, if for no other reason than it offers everyone a safe way of tying a 360 rig style presentation without the carp safety issues.

The exposed eye of a traditional 360 rig leads to the rig catching in the mesh of a landing net which is a danger if a carp then flaps. There have also always been question marks over long shank hooks and their tendency to damage mouths. What you couldn’t argue with was the hooking potential of the 360 rig – the Ronnie Rig is just as deadly without the drawbacks.

I saw the Ronnie Rig before most people, probably a couple of years back when I was working on Advanced Carp Fishing, but I dismissed it because seeing so many top anglers on the bank meant I was in danger of constantly changing rigs based on

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what I saw each week and that wasn’t doing my confidence any good.

What convinced me that the Ronnie Rig really was something special was shooting a feature with Alan Blair after a tackle shop open day. I saw him catch six carp in a day and every single one of them was nailed an inch or more back, all in the same place dead centre in the bottom of the mouth. I’d not seen hooking consistency like that since the chod or hinged stiff rig became popular.

The beauty of the Ronnie Rig is that you can fish a low lying pop up, with chods there is a practical limit to how short you can tie them and lots of people struggle with that. Where they are heavily fished the hookbait being a few inches off bottom is also the big giveaway. Ronnie Rigs sit the hook up but I’m sure carp can’t tell the bait is off bottom at all.

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YOU’LL NEED…

“I’ve yet to lose a single fish on a Ronnie Rig – even when carp have snagged me and I’ve had to get in a boat to free them.

The hookholds are unbeatable!” Max Hendry

• 25 or 35lb Combilink • Size 7 Fang X hooks • Hookbait Mounting Kit • Quick Change Micro Ring Swivel • Plastic Bait Screws • Hooklink Sleeves Slim • Cling-On Putty • 15mm pop ups

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Start by threading a Quick Change Micro Ring Swivel through the eye of the Fang X.

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Cut back the Hooklink Sleeve from the wider end by a couple of millimetres with rig scissors.

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Push the point of the hook into the wide end of the Hooklink Sleeve and push the sleeve around the hook being careful not to snag on the micro barb.

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Thread the sleeve over the eye and down over the barrel of the swivel to prevent either getting caught in the net mesh.

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Use the Plastic Bait Screw to mount your pop-up.

A 12mm Airball is perfect with a size 8 Fang X, use 15mm baits for a size 7.

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Tie a boom section of 12-20cm using Combilink.

The stiffness of the higher breaking strain helps push the hookbait away from the lead as the rig lands.

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A large figure of eight loop at the end of the boom section improves hooking mechanics and allows quick rig changes.

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Mould Cling-On putty around the barrel of the knot joining the Combilink to the swivel under the hook. I prefer the bait slow sinking.

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Thread a plastic bait screw onto the shank of the hook. Position a hook bead at the very top of the hook shank.

The finished rig sits inconspicuously and is ideal over boilie free offerings or larger particles.

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