MY FIRST HAIR RIG


As a long time coarse angler with over fifty years experience I had always regarded dedicated Carp anglers with the same suspicion that I still regard Pole anglers and Match anglers. There was obviously something seriously wrong with someone who was prepared to sit for days on end staring at the water with one bait out and not bothering to renew it. That wasn't fishing, that was terminal boredom! All that was soon to change as I met a man who convinced me to at least try session fishing for Carp and if I didn't like it, well so be it. And so I took my first tentative steps on the road to becoming a 'Carp Angler'.
My first action was to try and familiarise myself with the terminology, boilies, bivvies, hair rigs, PVA and all the rest of the terms were like a foreign language to me so with the help and patient guidance of my new found Experienced Carp Fishing Friend I was able to build up a very basic knowledge of Carp fishing language and to my surprise it was not all gobbledegook, some of the terms were familiar to me albeit under different names and the expression "oh you mean a ****** " became a regular part of our internet based conversations. So I finally became confident enough to start to consider this Carp fishing lark for real. My friend had instilled into me the importance of using good reliable terminal tackle, something I could relate to from my coarse fishing experience as the number of good fish lost at the net as a result of poorly tied terminal rigs is every is every anglers worst nightmare. So one day while chatting on the net I asked my new found Experienced Carp Fishing Friend " what do I need to tie a hair rig?" "Simple " he said " some line and a hook ", well not quite, it seemed that I also needed to make a list of bits to do the job properly but to start with some line and a largish hook would do.

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