One of the most informative carp fishing videos out there. Great comparison - You learn something every day 👍🏻 Excellent

Good work as usual Si well in pal. Some of the best vids on KZfaq well informative yet again!!!

Awesome video, I’m a new subscriber and looking forward to the next one

Quality blog Simon, and proves the point your making mate!👍👍👌

Inspiring video, Simon, thank you. I learned about the nuances of ronnie-rig in time 👍 I will try your version of withy pool-rig instead. In addition, as a designer :) I wrapped the tube with leadcore braid and fluffed the ends - it turns out a chic piece of branch. Thanks, friend!

good video, i been using Ronnies on a good few sessions now and found my rigs almost always catch them in the middle bottom lip so until they start doing something drastically wrong i will stick with what I'm doing. tight lines.

Hi simon I now use Ronny rigs a lot know after your tips and tricks video as it is simple to tie so I completely agree with u that location comes first and the bait because as long as u can get them confidently feeding most rigs will work good job 👍

So weird I've been thinking alot this week on which rig I should be using and this can up on your channel, great idea and just what I needed

Always nice to look at your videos

Fantastic unbiased experiment. I am new to your channel and would love to see more. Bottom bait rigs, mesh vs solid bags, alternatives to boillies, particles etc

Nice to see you back Simon! Great vid as always, totally agree on 360 rig, almost as bad as the bent hook rig! Like you w/pool for me all day long, but feel rigs are all about confidence, what ever works for you stick with, only change if it's really needed, but of course a personal preference.. Hopefully see you back on the bank soon, Tight lines 😉

I swapped to the ronnie for the simple reason i make my hooks ridiculously sharp and they are goosed if the even clip the rod or the floor ect nevermind catch a fish so i can keep the boom and swap the hook out in seconds saves alot of time and money

Everybody is using the Ronnie rig! I like to be different and use the multi rig! Great video Simon good to see you back mate! 💯🙌🎣✌️

We mash our heads with rigs but not enough on location a simple pop up rig will do the job well done mate tight lines 😊👍🎣🎣🎣🐟

Just thinking back to when i use the Ronnie rig,u are right do seem to catch a good few in the corner of the mouth, and same here never used a 360 rig, just think it looks more of a fashion statement rig lol, great video again, keep up the good work, your videos always give me and my youngest son great tips to catch fish, first time i took him fishing he had a 20lb 4oz common, first time fishing, been carp fishing for about 5 years still have not been able to get one over 20lb , sods law,

Great video Simon, these rigs are all about one thing and that’s selling tackle, everything these days revolves around money and fishing tackle is no exception

very educational thanks simon i will take that into consideration im using a hair rig style with a shot if ever i need to use a pop up

Ive used the ronnie to good effect to be fair ,and found the hook holds pretty good. Happy to use it at somewhere like linear, fishing over bait.... but if im fishing somewhere with low lying weed id switch to a hinge stiff or a chod rig everytime. Regarding the ronnie...when you think of the amount of different components required to make the rig, its no wonder the tackle companies want us to use them... and fair play to them aswell. Its business at the end of the day👍 its down to the individual to be wise to whats the right thing to use in the situation they are faced with.... enjoying your vids simon. Tight lines 🎣🎣

Multi rig. And the withy. The rest are all 360 rig versions. Very unbiased view, well put over. Keep it up. Tight lines.

Great video Simon 👍

Good informative video Simon as usual personally the Johnny Mac rig is my fav for pop ups but very rare I use them I’m more a wafter fan or straight bottom bait myself always had better results hope your well and tight lines from the NORTHERN CARP FREAKS 👍👍🎣🎣

Delkims all the way just love the sound of em..

I remember years ago when the Claw rig was the rig to use. First 2 fish I caught had serious mouth damage, so started critically balancing,so the hook was level and not up in the water. Still caught loads on it, but without the damage.

Hi Simon. Really interesting video. I followed your lead and swapped pop up rigs after each bite this weekend. The Ronnie and the Stiff Hinged both hooked in the scissor as you experienced with the Ronnie, something I had not really considered before. The Withy rig, which is not used before, hooked dead centre inside the mouth. Defiantly food for thought as I had used Ronnies a lot. Will continue to experiment and will try different lead setups next to see if they make a difference; same rig , different lead setup each time. Overall I agree with your thoughts that the baiting and location are more important than the rig. Jason

at the age of 72 i have to ask ,is this what angling has come to more and more metalwork and gimmicks ? what happened to fieldcraft and natural baits ?

Simon was it you that done the sunblessa review great bit of kit fella another good vlog aswell !!

Good video mate 👍🏻intresting results.....with the 360 rig alot of people had this problem getting caught in the net, they eliminated this by putting a small peice of shrink tubing over the eye of the hook and shrinking it down so it didnt move off etc. Would be intresting to see if the shrink tubing actually eliminates the hook getting caught in then net!! I dont know this my self as in dont use the rig but maybe you could try it again and ser 👍🏻

First and foremost great video. Appreciate the work. I get the point also, dont get too hung up on rigs, key focus is fish finding and baiting. But clearly rigs will come to play especially on high pressure venues and carp learn fast right. But i mean where you had the more looser and arguably more aggressive (damage potential) fish holds, they are large curve hooks vs stright shanks. They have been banned recently on a few local venues i fish and think for hood reason WHEN used on smaller carp. By that i mean under 30ibs. Curve hooks and high test curve rods along side a newer fisherman bullying a 15ibs fish ....will tear up a carps mouth. So yeah while your point and main message is absolutely valid. You do have a straight hook plus bent tubing vs fully cruved hook argument on this too. I think its probably the smaller carp mouths do struggle to blow out the 360 type, and it may not fully take hold vs a larger fish who have more room in their mouth. In summary. Fish size vs rig. Curve hook vs straight. My two pence ......but great work mate all this just helps the education.

Good video buddy can see what your doing pal education is key especially for the younger anglers and even some experienced one to be fair.... for a few years now I suck a D on the back of the ronnie stopped the issue what u mentioned and gives the rig more movement has for a bottom bait rig u wont go far wrong with wot u boys no has the noddle rig which was first invented years ago and slightly different by my father neil Willott and his good friend paul hepworth..scott lloyd is a good lad and has said many times where it came from cracking hook holds and no mouth damage keep the vids up dude.

100% agree....far prefer a nicely made stiff hinge etc myself ...however i do have friends that have brilliant success on the Ronnie and the results can't be denied....i guess like anything it's more about what you are confident in using...and yes...LOCATION. 👍👌

Good video Simon I've just sold my delks to get nash r3s cos one my delks always played up in heavy rain

Hi Simon yet another great vlog well done..Got rid of my TXIs now have Nash R3s I wished I'd changed earlier,so so better..Would never use 360 rig awful damage done even with silacone..Will give the Multi a try hook hold looked 1st rate..Till the next vlog........LC

Great video Simon. Not a riggy person by any stretch of the imagination but very interesting. Merlin, knotless knot and Flexi ring swivel is as technical as I go 😂 As for the ECUs, you'll love 'em. Mine have been faultless the last 18 months, only drawback is this scenario.. "ere mate,who makes those buzzers" ...ECU buddy..."Oh,never 'eard of 'em" 😁

another good vid mate

When I used 4 rods at a day tickets lake, playing a carp on 1 rod, would often swim through the lines of the other 3 rods. Problem was solved by using back leads.

There is no wonder rig just like there is no wonder bait. Depends on location and situation. Great vid

Just started fishing again after 40 years when I was a kid it was called ledgering! now confused but interesting and challenging my local lake only allows min no10 hooks so I am using no 10 and method feeder. Looks like I need to look at a different lake and re-think it and up my game, many thanks for your informative video

Inerestin video mate as always nice to see you on another lake i know . gotta disagree with ya on the ronnie rig.i used it on that lake and caught 4 fish on it and all were hooked in the centre of the mouth .however i made mine with korda size 8 crank hooks not curved shank maybe try that and see if you get a different result.the rig i use most although you didnt use it and probly my favourite is the combi rig for pop ups and bottom baits again using a crank hook.

Nice job my friend

Have a look at the Mark Bryant rig. Basically a loop of braid attached to a flouro boom. Hook is then looped in with a bait screw on the loop and silicone to secure the loop. Can be used for pop ups, wafters or bottom baits so no need for loads of different rigs.

A few components on a rig can work well if your on the fish. It's just the big company's that add more to get your money. Keep it simple and you wont go wrong. Great vid Simon

Try using the original (Maddocks / Middleton), old school hair rig, with the hair tied on the center of the hook bend. Then see if this very basic rig, out performs the best 2 rigs in this video.

I’ve had Gardener ATT for ages now and never had a problem with them there bullet-proof. But wanted more adjustable sensitivity. So got the new delkim Txi-D witch are yet to be tested. 🤞🏼

It is like you said you can catch carp on any rig as long as it’s tied well and presented well the main goal is to be on top of the fish know where they are and if they’re feeding

I was never a big pop up fan but the last 2 seasons has seen me using the ronnie/spinner rig slot and and has accounted for some lovely fish 2 yorkshire 30s . But it's all about location and substrate of the lake bed also think the lead set up has alot more to do with it than people think

Love your videos

Fishing in the rain - that's real fishing :)

For better hook holds on the Ronnie rig or any shank mounted bait you need to use a ring swivel to attach the bait gives it more separation better hook holds

I remember before covid me and a friend went to a lake to do sone fine pasty bashing and we both was using some pre made Ronnie's i think between us we landed 50 or 60 doubles and a couple 20s. I know was a commercial day ticket but i cant deny i never had a run and lost one and we had soo many. So faith in the ronnie since that day

Intresting subject 👍The jm multi rig works differnt to the others as in when a fish pulls up tight the bait pulls tight to the eye ( clever fish or ones not moving far when feeding that is) The bait cant !! be used to help throw the hook Thats why it is imo quite difrernt to the others . Apart from that they all just pop up and can reset well !! I just ues combi rig use amneisa an suple braid hair blow back ring shrink tube kicker putty. And then just adjust size and length of them all acordinly job done botton bait rig /pop up rig all in 1

I’ve always said that carp fishing is the preserve of the over thinker. I can’t see for the life of me how the bait presentation looks any different to a carp across all these rigs. Just one rig not mentioned, is the ‘Noodle’ 🙄 which to me looks like a reinvention of the ‘Withy Pool’ set up. Good content mate 👍🏻

Great vid Simon. I would like to see someone do more of this kind of thing. Makes a change from 99% of the carp vlogs on youtube. I always thought it would be interesting for someone to do a kind of Mythbusters for carp fishing. Like your popup comparison, it would be interesting to see other experiments. Boosted hookbaits vs regular. Particle vs boilie, small leads vs big leads, short vs long hook links, bright hookbaits vs natural. Lots of possibilities.

Interesting video simon and i think your dead right However i still love the ronnie/spinner rig and i cant say ive really had the issue you've had and generally hooked them in bottom lip or deeper inside mouth. Think ive used all them rigs all bar the flick rig and 360 rig. And whats shocking is that despite your best effort to stop the 360 catching in the net with the shrink tubing it still happened, so it deffo wont ever put that in my armoury. But my most successful pop up rig ever would have to be the simple knotless knot rig in a solid pva bag 👍🏼👍🏼

I find you can catch smaller carp on a bent paper clip. They are not the sharpest tools in the box. The proof of the pudding would be trying these rigs on a pond full of older wiser carp. I wonder if you would get the same results.

I went to France last year and used the Ronnie rig never lost a fish hook holds were solid

It's an interesting experiment. It would be great to know how many carp actually took the bait but did not get hooked. Even though the 360 and ronnie had poor hook holds, perhaps their rate of bites to hooks were higher.

What might be interesting is if you do a comparison video using curve shank vs wide gape on the ronnie rig to see what the hook holds are like over a session?! Just because they're so popular and back up or not what people are saying about fixing it with a wide gape?! Cool video mate cheers..

my new lake ive joined is mostly gravel and lilly pads, ive spent money on supple armour link, basicly soft braid, fast sinking, any way lake in may is gravel bottom ive put marker rod out feels good, but seems to be a lot oe leaves, can you suggest a pop up rig with the supple braid i have please. a chod rig is not going to work in my opinion and i dont want to spend any more money on different hook type material . many thanks

Couple of points Simon on what a couple of people have said. Firstly regarding the ronnie is the size of fish you're fishing for, I've not seen any damage to bigger fish i.e. over 20lbs but can see why perhaps with smaller fish and smaller mouths it could be a problem. I can't see these so-called top anglers using the ronnie if it was harmful to fish. Secondly someone mentioned anglers don't use hairs anymore, which you don't. Tim Paisley (who? some might ask) showed me the combi-rig many, many moons ago and I still use it today for bottom baits (singles or doubles), with about a 10mm gap between hook and bait, if the fish have got their heads down it's deadly! If I'm fishing up to pads, weedbeds or snags I shorten it down to about four inches. The only other rigs I use now are the ultra D rig for wafters or snowmen and the multi rig for pop-ups which as you said saves a fortune on buying all the various bits and pieces for tying different rigs which get binned after a short time. Again as you said the most important things are location and baiting up.

What is the knot you use at the other end to the hook? Because your loops are kicking out rather than been straight in line with the rig???? I used to use it but can't remember which nott it is any more and I want to use it in my fishing again lol?????

had same problem with delkims and fake bleeps in bad wether i got prologic mk2 now and there fantastic

For sure all rigs can catch carp. But the question is witch one is harder to be crashed out after a take. I believe a fair comparison would be to put the 6 rigs into the water in same time and see which one performs better?

I agree here with what your saying fella, but In my opinion I think there is times to use different pop up rigs for instance if I was fishing just over boilies I wouldn’t opt for the 360 or multi rig but I would use them fishing over particle. But yeah as your saying location is key, doesn’t matter what you put on the last meter if the fish ain’t there you ain’t catching them 👍

Nothing will ever beat the Multi rig, can't remember last time i lost a fish on a Multi... You can see why Penning, Jules cundiff, Bartrop etc swear by it 👌🏼

For the most part I would have to agree with you that any rig presented well should catch fish. However every rig you used will have subtle differences and with these subtle differences comes an anglers confidence. That is why people end up have a favourite rig because it give them confidence. So I say find the rig you are confident with.

Great video very interesting. Guess it's all down to confidence in your chosen rig.

Always had good hook holds with Ronnie rigs in bottom lip but I use a wide gape hook so mite make a difference

I think it also depends what water your fishing what rigs have been hammered on there...what haven’t been used...size of fish... it all comes into play... big fish water and it hasn’t been hammered chod or hinge stiff rig is best I would say

I never stray to far from the multi or hinge stuff rig. I have made a few tweaks to the multi rig tho.

Brilliant video and a great session, sometimes I don't catch that many fish in a 3 days 😂Anyway I think you have definitely proved a point and I agree, it doesn't really matter what rig you are using, if it is presented correctly and the fish are there you will catch. I prefer bottom baits and wafters myself using a slip D rig, a blow back rig or an IQ rig etc (obviously if it isn't weedy) I bet if you did a video using different bottom bait rigs your results would be the same!! Well done and point proved 👍 The last thing I would like to mention is, I really do not like your new alarms 😵‍💫I personally think they are ugly, very boxy, square looking and not a patch on the Delkims. Especially the new TXI-D'S which are compact, look great and are superb in build quality and technology and I believe there is not an alarm on the market to touch them, including the Fox, Nash etc everyone is trying to match or out do the Delkims but in my opinion they have not managed it yet!! I am guessing you have been paid or sponsored by the alarm company!! 🤫 There is no harm in that, Obviously Alan Blair is going to say the Nash alarms are the best and Harry Charrington will say the Fox alarms are the best etc. Remember this is only my opinion so calm down everyone before you start screaming and shouting!! 🤪😂All the best and tight lines 👍🎣🎣 and please keep these great videos coming 🤟

I normally only fish popups if im using a chod rig personally otherwise im fishing bottom baits. I've tried popups on classic hair rigs using ssg shots to set the height with good success in the past, and thats about as basic as it can get.

I totally agree they all do the same thing iv said this for years

The pool rig you should try taska tungsten bits for it amazing stuff been out over 12 years now

I come off the Ronnie this season. I just used blow back rig now.and Multi rig for my popups

I think your findings are spot on. 360 and ronnie rigs are a disaster waiting to happen, in terms of fish welfare, but if it sells unnecessary tackle items, companies will keep pushing them.

Lead arrangement and spot selection would definitely have a bigger impact

Really enjoyed the video is there any chance you can do a video on how to apply waterproofer onto your bivvy and the best product to do it with👍

Interesting Simon...👍🎣

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Just a quick question what was it u used again to water proof your bivvy and where do u get it from, thanks

The most simple rig was the first to catch. Just goes to show, don’t over think things. Keep fishing simple. 😁😁

Can anyone give an opinion on a simple combi rig for pop ups. I'm trying to keep everything as simple as possible so using Hybrid stiff, with hook end stripped and about 5mm showing past eye of hook, bit of shrink to cover knot then putty to balance the pop-up. Fishing this on a heli with size 4 Krank and micro hook swivel and bead. Testing in a tank it looks fine but new to using pop ups so haven't built any confidence yet. Any reasons as to why this wouldn't be as effective as anything else, thanks everyone. Great video as well

Nice video,well done.I sub ...

I have been using ronnie's all winter mainly all on a local lake (where there is 1 about 23lb and that's the biggest)which sadly is being hit quite badly by otters and it's a hard winter lake and the otters make it near impossible as they dont even want to feed at all I think because they know what's up theres many of carp with chunks out but all my fish there this winter have been on Ronnie's my biggest carp also the first carp of this year was 16lb then me and my gramp took a trip to a lake completely new to me about 40mins from where I live brand new to me didnt know much about it it was a old quarry and the water is crystal clear and I had two small mirrors about 4 or 5lbs each from there which surprised me it was about 1°c all of that day so the Ronnie is just my go to pop up rig I havnt really caught on others mite just be luck or coincidence but the Ronnie has done the business for me all been hooked in bottom lip in the middle and they haven't come out without me really trying to slide them out barbless by the way I dont use barbed I dont need to especially not on the Ronnie's the way they have been hooking🙂🎣

What rods n reels are you using here Simon ?

agreed location then bait and last rig I would not hve used an inline to be honest. The Ronnie on 20 + generally bottom lip. also likr the multi rig

Going off the Ronnie rig if im honest so im gonna be trying a german rig i also use the best rig out there imo the iq 2 slip d rig snowman style

Yep, all these different rigs are just marketing scams. And I’ve been debating just about every other factor on fishing ie ground baiting for days at a time vs just throwing a few boilies out vs single baits, and none of it seems to make a shred of difference. At our local small 3 acre lake that we fish constantly, we’ve piled in 5k of hemp into one swim, glugged baits, created as much attraction as possible and not even gotten a snifter, while 10 yards further down someone’s whipping out a 20 an hour on single baits. I don’t even believe groundbait works. Watching many underwater vids I’ve never seen fish bee lining their way into a swim as if they’ve smelled/sensed something from miles away, they merely loaf around and if your bait happens to be there then that’s it. ALL LUCK

If you do not include zigs and floter fishing I use 3 rigs for 99% of my fishing, the pop up rig I sent you a pic of and a KD rig, if I have to fish a barbless hook then I use a blow back instead of a KD rig. I have been useing the nash s5r and have been from the time they came out and they are very good for the price and just keep going and going and going and going.

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The Ronne and hair rigs were created out of necessity because the baits people were using were so inferior, the carp wouldn't take them well enough for anglers to set the hook. Carp would mouth them but rarely eat them. The solution to all of the expensive and complicated equipment is to develop a bait that carp will aggressively eat. Living in the States I have no idea how to do that for the European carp, but I have done that very thing for Common carp.

I don't think that fishing on a match lake would really display the older and wiser carps ability to reject and eject certain types of rigs. Larger carp also feed in a different manner due to the size of the carp. Also with them being caught before theyre also more wary! In this situation you have lots of younger carp which I assume are heavily stocked and hence they're all competing for food and will eat anything out in front of them. Also different carp have different ways in which they feed. So if you were targeting a certain carp there may be a rig that works better. The mechanics of all these rigs will differ and wary carp that can eject and reject rigs may find that easier or harder with different rigs they come across. Ultimately this experiment was always gonna be flawed due to the fact these young hungry carp are going to eat anything you put out in front of them. Larger older carp, may have made this experiment more interesting and useful to specimen anglers.

Controversial or not the 360 for me . I shrink tube over the eye .

New this for years , you are right . Next video bottom bait rigs , seeing as most people follow trends pop ups or wafters . What ever happened to the bottom bait straight out of the bag ? Something i will be using alot next year .I understand in using pop ups now with alot of leaf debris on the lake bed . Bottom baits will be a big edge now . Good film thankyou

Simon I'm looking to buy a new 2 man bivvy for myself and my son would you have any recommendation I would be very grateful cheers

I honestly believe people try to over complicate rigs no need for all of it! Simple rig nice bait you’re away. People catch fish all the world with sticks and strings fish arent that bright 🤣

Have you caught much on a noodle rig if so could you do a video on it please

At last someone with sense shelleys been sayin it for years location bait then rigs .i beleive tel said the stiff hinge shud curve like your thumb and the withy shud curve rnd more i think . As for fabsil sack that n use thompsons water seal 100 tines better

Hi what about the k d rig I no it’s not the same style as them but still a pop up rig

Informative videos. Shame Simon has the personality of a rod stand.