Saturday Rig Special

Hey folks its Donk here, welcome to my Saturday rig special.

So I ran out of my stiff rig material the other day and purchased some Korda Mouth Trap and had a play with a rig I have been working on over the past few months. It's my take on the Chod-rig and has an element of a Multi-rig in there as well. I call it the Multi-Chod. And here is how I tie it. After this I will explain why I use it and what advantages I think it has over the standard Choddy.

You will need these bits to make this rig.

So first of we need our rigs bits. As stated I have the Korda Mouth Trap in 15lb breaking strain. And I will be using a size 8 Choddy hook and a micro hook swivel but you can use a rig ring if you would prefer. I like the extra movement that the micro swivel gives over a rig ring. A super buoyant hook bait, in this case I am using a DNA Baits fruity pop up Jase was kind enough to give me last time I was there, these will be available soon and smell the nuts! Love them! 

Overhand loop

So first off we take a length of our stiff material and tie an overhand loop in it just over the length of our hook.

Curve it!

Now is a good time to put a curve in the material, you can do this by hand or steam.

Micro swivel

Thread the material through the front of the eye and slide on your rig swivel or ring and pass the hook through the loop creating in effect a Multi-rig.

Two turn blood knot

I have decided to tie on a large ring swivel now with a two turn blood knot.

Trim and blob

Trim the tag end after pulling the knot down carefully and blob the end down. Now if needs be re-curve the material using your desired method.

Tie on the bait

Tie on your chosen pop up. Here I have threaded some bait floss through my micro swivel and pulled it through my pop up, pulling the swivel into the bait and then tying it off with a boilie stop.

Short aggressive D or........

 The hook should sit fairly tight on the material allowing you to set the angle the hook and bait will sit at. So you can have a short D giving you an ultra aggressive hook or have it a more open and longer D which adds great blow back properties to the rig. All that is left to do now is to balance the bait with putty on the swivel. The swivels allow the hook to flip around super fast and all the hook holds I've had have been great.

............blow back.

So why would I use this over the standard Chod-rig? I'm pretty sure you can see the benefits  how many times have you have to remove a leader or strip down a Choddy after checking the hook point and finding it blunt? I've lost count but now I don't have to, I can change the hook and bait in seconds and as we all know in this game those seconds can be crucial in getting back on the fish before they move on. I have also used this combi-rig style with a length of coated braid tied to the ring with a double over hand loop knot. 

So anyway that's my Multi-Chod. 

And another blog for the Hobos so hopefully we will see you out on the bank soon.