I just want to say your content is great and you've really helped me simplify my angling and focus more on the little things that make a huge difference. As a relatively new carp angler I was constantly getting runs but lifting into the rod there was nothing on the end which at the time I was using heavy leads with lead clips. Then I came across your video on Lead systems. I changed over to a running lead system with lighter leads and focused on having the sharpest hook possible and well its helped me massively and I'm no longer striking into nothing! Love your content you're a book of knowledge and you've helped me massively. Keep up the good work matt👍

When I started carp fishing, a 3 acre lake seemed large and daunting. When I first fished in France, a 35 acre felt huge and intimidating. So you can imagine how I felt when I began the journey in tackling 500 acre lakes with no boat, no echo sounder and no drone. I mean how can you possibly be successful on a lake that big without modern tech? Well, six years ago I began that journey and it taught me an awful lot about what really matters in this game, and what doesn't. In this video I share everything that I learned along the way that you can apply on any lake.

Little tip for badly infested cray waters. Forget wrapping baits and using plastic, I just flavour some good old wooden balls and drill a 1mm hole through and you will be fishing with bait exactly how you cast out. (just make sure you over weight the balls, because they get lighter in weight over night).

Mr. Collins , I'm stunned that this rig is a bit controversial in UK. In Romania I discovered this rig in 2012 on big lakes in carp fishing competition. This days everybody is using this rig, in competition or in normal fishing,this rig is a must. We are using this rig on a helicopter type system. All romanian team in international competition are using this type of rig. The big pro is the confidence that i have when you cast at distants . Second is the easy way to create the rig and very easy to change the hook , by using a kwik change swivel. Have a good day !

Hi! Yet another great video on a very basic carp catching rig!! Congrats!!! I've tested this mono rig and caught lots of fish with it, I generally use either wide gape or chod hooks for it to create the aggressive angle without using the ronnie stopper on the hook. To be honest I prefer the D-rig over this single mono rig. I've tested the mono rig by simply throwing it multiple times in a bucket filled with water. In some cases, I was surprised that the hook can actually landed upwards (with the back of the hook facing the bottom) even though the rig was executed correctly. This happened on the flat bottom of the bucket, where the boilie could have rolled the hook on either sides, but it didn't. I kept thinking that the lake bed is not perfectly flat, so the boilie might land between some debris and not roll properly. The D-rig on the other hand, no matter how many times you throw it and how you throw it, it always ensures that you are fishing :) Tight lines!

brb just off to burghfield

Anothet quality video Matthew 👍🏻👍🏻

I always make it a point to go carp fishing on a large lake (or any other size) with a clean bottom. 👍

A great informative video. As a relative beginner, I have been using the mono rig you recommended in a previous video, and have caught plenty of fish with it. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience!

What a great video and i will be trying the salt idea on a heli rig and on a running rig thanks Matthew .

Brilliant informative video. Thank You

Great video as always Matt. Please can you share a video on how you target weedy waters? In particular, PVA bags in silk weed etc. Would be interested to hear your take on it.

Used this rig on yateley, perfect, caught 3 using it ,will use this rig everytime .easy , and so basic thankyou saved my blank this year😅

Tried the salting boilies trick today as they fell off regularly but now lasting much longer casting a feeder out every 15 mins

I applied your rig form, however bent little new rose potatoes of 1.5cm*2.0cm on the hair (10 min boiled) which worked immediately. No bites on boilies here. Little jacket potatoes do a best job here.

Nice video Matt, basically everything you need to learn to be a successful big carp angler! Thanks.

Hi Matthew, after watching one of your prevoius videos about mono (the deadly d rig) I can honestly say my confidence has jumped 100% in mono. I used to use mono years ago and we all seem to get lost in the latest braid etc. We often overlook the simple things. Thanks.

Superb film Matt. Be nice to meet you sometime and show you my lake . It's not a commercial fishery. Secret place near Mayenne.Thanks for the videos, so informative and professionally done.

Very interesting video again Mr. Collins. Thx for the pointers in this episode.

That’s good conversation about hooks I used to use the pin point range but stopped due to them burring over when catching a carrier bag in a park lake , I’ve switched to the esp cryogens , but as I’m campaign fishing I should get bag on the pin points , good thought that is , currently sitting behind my rods watching this cheers.

dude this is exactly how i fish and have been using this same rig for years outfishing people with braids and shrinking on their rigs, only thing different is i use flurocarbon as i think its got benefits over mono and i use hooks with inward eye. i also have totally stopped using fixed lead clips and only using full running leads as the fish cant use the weight of the lead to shake the hook out their mouth, and an added bonus is you always have a screamer takes regardless of direction fish goes in.

All you need is Daiwa j-braid x8 0.16mm and 0.20mm for pop-ups and wafters or fluorocarbon ~0.35 (I use p-line shinsei fluorocarbon). Last weekend i've cought about 243kg of carp.

What the feck a shod claw, it's chod for the love of God 😂.. gave me the right shits everytime you said it haha. Other than that, mega bid again 👍.. and a very simple but massively effective rig

Thanks Matt brill tips

Hi matt gareth hear i sooke to you on the phone when we were going to come to your fishery in france for a trip before wcc 2017 the new zealand team ,i didnt happen ,i never got chance to thank you for your offer so thanks matt cheers gareth

Mr Collins stop giving the top tip away😁🎣👍

Brilliant. But I still convince myself that the lead and the bait would separate in flight, in theory rather than practice 😊.

Great videos I'm going to a reservoir I haven't fished before at the weekend and I'm going to give this a go. Because of your vids I'm now almost exclusively using running rigs and if I do use a bolt rig I now know how to use it correctly cheers.

v.nice

Personaly i use a combi rig stiff flouro with a albrighted piece of braid doubled over to create a multi rig set up which makes changing the hook over easy peasy ,,,enjoyed watching this cheers Matthew

This approach works on the Severn too for Barbel. Bar the long distance the song remains the same. A single bottom rig will works wonders.

This has appeared in perfect time! I’m fishing Brasenose I, a big water for me, in a month where long range casting CAN pay off! I was trying to come up with a short, coated braid turbo German rig for anti-tangle at range but your mono rig is inspired AND being a sea angler 0.40 mono and up is sitting there! I would never have the confidence to just fish a bait alone but you’ve convinced me! Thank you!

My lake is bottom is mostly silt everywhere.Is this rig worth ago in silt -helicopter style?? And tnx for the video

Hey Matt! Thanks for the content. Since i started following you i changed completely, in positive, my fishing style..honestly, i find this rig even better and more suitable than your drig version. What do u think, when and why you would choose this instead the mono d? Tia, Fabio

Thank you for the Turkish translation. I'm glad to have you.

good stuff mate, really good stuff..

Without a doubt the sharpest hooks out of the box are korda kamakura

There’s a stretch of river near me where my friend has a lot more experience in the swim than me. He says bottom baits will not work. For whatever reason neither of us have caught on bottom baits there. I still don’t believe bottom baits won’t work so I’m going to have a mono D rig out tonight with a large 24mm bait.

Hi Matt This rig must be loaded in the middle because it often happens that the hook is point up and the line is up. I have tested this situation at home many times. Of course, it is not known whether this prevents carp from taking the bait 🙂

19:32 Never seen a fish so in shock at being caught.

I see from your rig board that you had the 'deadly D' rig with you and the simple mono hair rig. What factors and situations make you pick the 'd' or the 'hair'? Any insight would be great.

At a weedy venue what rig would you use and would finding a clear spot be your top priority

Not really to stiff thats more for ronnie rigs to make a boom

Hey Matthew, i was wondering what you think of your “mono rig” when you use a bait boat and fish on long distance, and also with lot of other species? Would you make it like a combi rig “braid and mono” or just complete braided or just complete mono? Looking forward for your reply! Have a great weekend Cheers

When i think back to when i started fishing for carp i remember tying all my rigs with mono. I would use my mainline @ 15lb and yes would change the rig after every fish as it would get battered during the fight. One question about your 0.40-0.50 mono rig, how long would you say it should be over all? Thanks

Hi Matt, isnt problem to use just FC in dia. 0,5 mm? I mean if carps have problem with the stiffness of FC? The bait isnt "free" under the hook with FC. Sorry for english. Hi from czech repablic. V.

Hi Mathew very informative I really like the running ledger if it can catch a 5lb tench down my local canal Regents Park it will do for Carp and is does I caught a 30Ib carp down the canal when I was15 obviouslyI have never forgotten that fish and how simple I tried to make, I had a washing up liquid top as a bobbin with a stone in it. Thankyou keep it up

Why would you cast as far as possible if you are fishing at the end of a wind? Why not close to shore as the wind would have pushed around more bait for the carp here?

In our pond of 0.4 hectars we've got good carp, but hoplessly soaked with rudd. Carp's biting best on corn or potatoes. No chance with boilies. What else could I try? If you cook little 24 mm potatoes, how hard to keep them? Why would you like your boilies hard?

All rigs should be a one fish rig if your hooks are sharp

why can you only use it for 1 fish ?

As somebody who caught big catfish on lures, big pike, big laketrout and other very hard to catch species I always laugh about carps. They are one of the dumbest species I fished for so dont make it to complicated. I fished for them only in lakes which are bigger than 300 hektar, thats not big thats a normal lake. Also you can catch multiple carps on thick mono hooklinks. I have done so with many 20 kg plus carps in snaggy and weedy lakes, no problem

Hi mate what is your favourite mono rig your go to the hair or the d rig only problem i have with a mono hair rig is it splits the boilies thanks

Hello matthew. Would you approach a fast flowing river te same as in your youtube clip?

I fish a low stock water not been fished for decades. Now it’s a club water . I know it’s been stocked with Gardner strain carp 70 of them plus whatever original carp are in there . How do I find these carp ? They don’t show as the cormorants are in abundance there. I’ve been getting a lot of tench so I know Iam on some sort of clean spot .and it’s very silty the worse I’ve seen ever lol the lead plugs in whenever you go so hellie rig is being used ?

Hi there do you only use a chodhook with this rig or would other work in same way thanks Martin

Don't the. 5/.60 mono's sit very similar to the Coated Braids? In my mind they'd sit quite awkward because the material is quite stiff?

I'm in the usa and have to deal with many catfish species, what do you think about seaguar red label on this rig? it's fluorocarbon or something like hard alloy monofilament leader?

So i have .4 diameter on my new reels ive loads of mono left after spooling them, i can use that for rigs? Game changed.

Hi Matthew could i add an 1,5 grams sinker 6 cm away from the kicker to increase the turning of the hook?

do you fish the same rig with big baits in silt with a helicopter or something else?

How dare you simplify carp rigs !!! Only joking, great video, a bit Fast Show ('Brilliant') in the presentation.

Would 0.50 Fluoro (Berkely Trilene 100% fluorocarbon) work equally as well as the 0.50 mono?

And now you have to learn how to hold a carp. Dont put de backfin between your fingers. It can do damage to the carps backfin.

How long do cure your hook baits for

How much will cost learning sessions between 2of us?

Hey would you use this rig on a silty bottom?

What reels do you use?

so do you not use baitrunners?

Are you just avoiding weed by feeling for a drop when you turn up to these places.