Glossary of carp angling terms
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Any
terms that are underlined link to an article
describing the term.
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| Amnesia |
A
high breaking strain monofilament line used
in stiff rigs |
| Back
Lead |
A
break away weight attached to the main line
near to the bank to keep the line on the bottom. |
| Bait
boat |
Remote
controlled boat for delivering free offerings
and your rig to your chosen fishing location. |
| BCSG |
British
Carp Study Group |
| Bivvy |
Angler’s
tent, usually green and very robust. |
| Blood
Knot |
Basic
knot for hooks and swivels |
| Boilie |
Round
boiled baits usually attached to rig on a
hair. See hair rig. |
| Braid |
A
synthetic woven material used for main lines
and traces. |
| Carp
Rod |
Fishing
rod specifically designed to cope with handling
and landing larger fish like carp. |
| Chemically
etched |
Process
used in the manufacturing of hooks which gives
a very sharp point. |
| Chick
Pea |
A
particle bait available in dried form and
tins in supermarkets. |
| Critically
balanced |
Description
of a rig type whereby the baits are exactly
counteracted by a small weight near to the
hook so that the bait only just floats above
it. |
| ‘D’
Rig |
Rig
where the bait is tied to a ‘D”
shaped loop on the back of the hook shaft. |
| Dacron |
A
type of braided material used in rig traces |
| Day
ticket |
Refers
to a fishery where anglers buy a daily ticket
on arrival |
| Boilie
dip |
A
solution in which boilies or other baits are
dipped just prior to use |
| Feature
finding |
A
method of exploring the bottom of the water
for features such as bars, shallows and dips
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| Floater |
A
floating bait, often refers to dog biscuits
or similar |
| Greedy
Pig Rig |
A
rig holding very large baits, often 3 boilies,
to avoid nuisance species or smaller carp. |
| Grinner
Knot |
A
very strong knot often used in rig tying. |
| Hair
Rig |
A
method of attaching bait where the bait is
threaded onto a short thin section of line
or braid which hangs from the back or bottom
of the hook. |
| Helicopter
Rig |
A
rig where the weight is attached at the end
of the main line and the hooklength revolves
around this a short distance above the weight |
| Hemp |
A
very popular small black seed used as a particle
bait, which must be prepared by soaking and
boiling. |
| Hinge
Rig |
Rig
which has built in flexible properties usually
formed by attaching traces via small rings
or loops of line. |
| HNV |
High
Nutritional Value; a term used to describe
baits especially boilies |
| Knotless
Knot |
A
knot which is formed by whipping line to the
hook with no knot as such, the tail end of
which forms the hair. |
| Leadcore |
Trace
material which has lead within the braid causing
it to stay on the bottom. |
| Marker
floats |
Large
brightly coloured floats used to find and
mark a chosen fishing area |
| Palomar
Knot |
A
srtrong knot often used in rig tying |
| Particles |
Any
small bait pieces such as hemp, pellets or
nuts. |
| Pod |
A
folding stand on which carp rods are placed
usually having bite alarms on the front of
the stand and normal rod rests at the rear.
Prevents having to drive bank sticks into
hard ground and is very stable. |
| Pop-Up |
A
bait, usually refers to boilies, which will
float ot pop up off of the bottom |
| PVA |
Poly
Vinyl alcohol – a material resembling
cling film which disslolves in water |
| PVA
bag |
A
small bag made from PVA used to hold particles
and your rig. |
| PVA
string |
String
made from PVA used in tying rig sections together
for casting. |
| PVA
tape |
Tape
made from PVA used in tying rig sections together
for casting. |
| Ready
Mades |
Boilies
which are ready manufactured and sold in bags |
| Redmire |
Famous
lake in Herefordshire near Ross-on-Wye now
belonging to the carp society and from which
Dick Walker’s famous 44lb carp Clarissa
was first captured during the 1950s. |
| Rhino
Rig |
A
two boilie rig with a pop-up on the normal
hair and a normal bait on an extra hair from
the eye of the hook facing the wrong way. |
| Shelf
Life |
Ready
Made boilies with a long life expectancy in
the bag |
| Silicon |
Tubing
material used in rig making |
| Sinker |
Term
referring to both leads and sinking baits
such as trout pellet |
| Snake
bite |
Hook
length material which has a very soft inner
material coated in fairly rigid coating which
is easily removed to expose the inner flexible
part. |
| Snake
skin |
Hook
length material which has a very soft inner
material coated in fairly rigid coating which
is easily removed to expose the inner flexible
part. |
| Snowman
rig |
A
method of mounting 2 boilies 1 above the other
thus resembling a snow man |
| Stiff
Rig |
Rig
made from stiff material such as Amnesia that
does not easily flex |
| Syndicate |
A
group of anglers limited in numbers who each
pay a sum of maoney annually enabling them
exclusive fishing rights to a water |
| The
Method |
Method
of presenting groundbait and particles with
your rig on an open feeder assembly |
| Trace |
Hooklength
and associated hardware |
| Trout
Pellet |
Small
dry particles originally used in the rearing
of trout on farms |
| Withy
Pool Rig |
Rig
developed at the famous Withy Pool fishery
– see rigs |
| Zig
rig |
Rig
used for presenting floaters which rise up
from a bottom weight |
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