How To Tie A Chod Rig for Carp Fishing 

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Cannot thank you guys enough. You are half my age but your experience and knowledge yesterday helped me catch my personal best of 17lb 5oz Mirror Carp using this method. I used a Crafty Floater Salty Tuna and in 3 casts I landed 2 fish including my PB. For someone who only started fishing again 4 months ago after a 35 year “break” I’m chuffed. Great channel, great advice and so easy to understand. Thanks again.

6 months into carp fishing and everything I know is from Alex and Carl. Can't thank you guys enough ❤

These guys know their carp fishing and their tutorials are very welcome to watch and try out keep it up lads your doing a great job.l

I love your tutorials, you explain everything very clearly & easy to understand for people who are just getting into carp fishing. Happy Christmas & all the best for all your plans in 2020. 🎣😎

Its not only helpful to fish slackline, its really really important, otherwise the whole system would be useless!!Great input to fish it with a boilie spreaded area feeding spot!!sounds logic and I always wondered

As a 51 year old man who has rediscovered his love of fishing, yours videos are quite simply brilliant! Excellent content that is easy to follow, and very well articulated verbally and visually. This old dog has certainly learned some new tricks. Keep up the great work. Thanks.

Same here only a few months into it and a very empty pocket afterwards 😂 but I am the same I couldn't of made it this far without my two favourite brothers. Carl & Alex. Give yourself a good pat on the bk from us all nuff love Jamie hope I see you one day.

Hello young professor, very excellent, interesting and informative content

Great vid boys would to see a video on the difference in different prepared baits like different types of pellets and boilies as an American It’s really confusing learning the differences when trying to up my game from just fishing corn and maize

Thanks for the great tips! I usually fish a variant of this, just a helicopter rig with sinking baits (boiled feedcorn, balls of white bread, a maggot clip, a fake crayfish etc.) in combination with a method lead. However, I have also experienced those hesitant bites when fishing pop-ups, and I think that might be due to them being fished over a ball of bait. Maybe I'll put more distance between the hooklink and the packbait when fishing pop-ups next time :)

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Great video, as you know Carl I love your videos. Would it be a good idea to promote the helisafe system so you can drop the lead if needs be …. Hopefully sending the carp up into the water making it easier to land the fish. I hate dropping leads as much as the next guy but I’m a firm believer that it can mean landing a fish or losing it. Just a bit of food for thought for people.

Great tutorial! You explain it very clearly. Here in the US we sometime don't need complex rigs, but i do like to know how to tie the latest ones that the anglers in the UK come up with. Great channel keep up the excellent work guys!

Really really really good advice. Thanks for explaining so much about choddies. Hardly any shoutouts on your regular channel towards this channel!

Great video guys, I've been looking for a video that explains the Chod rig in more detail. Very thorough and helpful. Top job 👍

Could u do a vid on how to find spots in lake using maker floats and leads , personally that’s my weakest point in carp fishing and I’m sure a lot more carp anglers too, cheers

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Love thus channel...bought tons off fishing stuff...3 yars ago and no time for this, but live watching when find some time😔

I didn't use a chod rig but caught my pb common carp in MA today. 15mm boilie on a hair rig in a river, probably wouldn't even be carp fishing if it weren't for your channels

Carl Alex pls can you make a tutorial on how to set up a rod i know its east but im 13 and dont know how to do it thank you

Very nice tutorial

Can I use second option on mono mainline ? Or have to be leader

Didn’t work for me and I followed it step by step but good vid though enjoyed watching it 😁

Can you just use two pieces of split shot instead of the bead things as I don’t have them

Do u have to use the beads I can’t find them anywhere

Great thanks guys!

Il est très bien ce petit gars !

Hi carl, what knot do you use to tie your main line onto ur leader

Great video. Honestly guys you’ve nailed it with these tutorials. It’s bizarre that with so many rig tutorials on RU-vid for so long and yet, yours are buy far the easiest to follow. My 8 year old fishing addict son can really start to make his own rigs 🙏😁

when would I use the short chod rig and when would I use the long chod rig?

I was just thinking there how you said it’s mainly fished on a slack line couldn’t you use drop backs and fish it tight or would it not work

Hey guys love the video! On the helcopter could i fish with the stiff hing rig not the chod rig?

Guys if i was fishing over silt would you reccomend a Leadcore leader or just fish it naked

Fantastic video it helped me out loads because I've only really got into carp fishing last year I used to just do float fishing but now I want want something bigger my pb carp what I court last year is 18lb and my pb pike is 12lb I want beat that next year and merry Christmas

You need to up grade your filter on your tank if you got carp in it tropical set up wont be enough Carl hence the green tinge in water

I'm fairly new to carp fishing, you say choddys should be fished with slack line, what if you are fishing in strong gusty wind do you use a different set up for that?

I see you are using a barbless hook. is that required in the UK or is that a 'technical' decision?

An excellent tutorial. I was able to make my very first chod rig following your video, thank you! I have a question though. I used the naked variant for my mono main line. What do you do when the session is done and you need to transport the rods home. Before I just cut the knot and took all from the main line so I was able to transport the rods home. But now there is the barrel and chod sleeve. If I take it out from the line, I won't be able to put it back. How do you handle this? I don't want to have the chod system only for one-time use.

Very good video

I use a baitscrew (nash) instead of the rigring. Easy as pie!

Hello, can you use a shot instead of putty? Thanks lads

Guys I hit subscribe button in the middle of the film, then you start talking about how to feed with chod rig. I'm so happy that I found you channel. Great work!

Great video. Would you always use a ring and bait floss, or would you also consider bait screws?

would using a back lead work with the setup that doesnt use leadcore? instead of a really slack line

Guys, I just stumbled accross your channel, after a video was randomly suggested by RU-vid. I do want to thank you for all the videos, everything I watched so far is very well produced, organized, and everything makes sense. I am very engaged in your tutorials. Before I moved to Ireland and started to focus a lot on sea angling, I was an amateur carp and tench angler myself. Your videos re-ignited that forgotten passion I had a long time ago. So thank you for that! I am amazed you don't have a lot more subscribers, to be honest. This is not a 50k subs channel, by any means. Here's hopping for you to get to the million soon, you very much deserve it. Cheers!

Great video, very useful please do more carp rig videos- Ronnie rig, Zig rig etc.

Could you fish the chod rig with a bait screw instead of bait floss and rig ring? Cheers Liam

Hey, could you allow shipping to Belgium/The Netherlands aswell? I'd like to buy this book but it cannot be shipped to my location. Thanks in advance

Making the naked chod systam can i put splitshots instead of the naked tungsten sleve and the beed becouse i cant get those things where i live

I'm going to make a few naked chod rigs for a holiday in Suffolk and there's 2 weedy lake's that have Carp to 40lb and I think the Chod could be just what I need will tell you how it goes on my return Crazy Carper.

Hi is there a quick way of being able to change my rig on heli setup? At the moment I have mounted my rig with a ring swivel, my rig is now blunt and want to change my rig without having to take beads and lead off!

I’m using the first method cuz looks easier to me. But if I decide to change the rig I’m left with parts that I cannot use anymore cuz I won’t be able to put them on the line again , is there a way to use them again somehow?

It would be to see how to do this without spending so much on such specific expensive tackle.

I have to ask, do you guys actually use these rigs? I ask because you say your mainline is 12lb bs, buy the rigs/hook lengths you're making are using heavier materials, like 25lb bs on one of your videos? I thought we used lighter hook lengths?

I am a salt water fisherman and i do like to feel the experience of carp fishing I don't know if this rig working or not but the way you secured rig ring makes me really unsecured I also think that you use a large diameter of fishing line and this results in the bait not having a normal movement in the water

It could just be me as I’m very new to carp fishing but how would you a find the leader/line material that this is being built on and once you’ve made the rig how would you attach it to your normal fishing line?

Just a quick question, I am using the lead clip system that you have done a video about, I have tried it on the canals but not had a take... could this just be down to the fact that their is not as many carp / tench on the canals - am I better trying on a lake over the weekend?

Bro chod definitely means something else where I am from lmfao!! This video plays like an April fool's joke.

I have noticed the places i fish have rules against using any lead core or leaders and also not allowing naked rigs only tubing does that make this process much harder?

How on earth you put the barrow and chod sleeve on the needle, it’s like impossible to me

Can you use the korda heli safe leader and then attach a chod rig to it, rather than a heli rig. Would it still work the same as the naked chod?

Carl can I use a PVA bag with my Chod rig? Thanks for the effort in doing the video

would this work with a heli safe?

Great video but I’m wondering when the fish is hooked will the chod rig slid down to the lead?

Do I have to keep buying safety systems because I can’t find barrel beads for sale

Well said and great tips bro. One thing I would like to ask you why these days carp hook points are slightly band towards it's eye why not straight pointed hook. Is there pros and cons of this band point hook. Kindly clear my doubt bro.

This is the best fishing channel on YT! Been watching your videos since you started out! Bought me back to fishing. Clear and simple and not trying to get us to pay ridiculous amounts of money for rigs lol.. Thanks boys :0) hope you and tye family have a great Christmas.

Thanks guys used your tutorial to make this had 4 screaming runs on a new water landed 3 lovely carp and lost one but it happens, cheers lad 💪

Great video, can I use Durakord leadfree-leader for the leadcore safety system?

Is it possible to use coated braid for the rig instead of mono. Thanks.

If I was using this for a 15lb mainline what lb hook length is needed?

Hi guys! I was searching for a good chod rig tutorial, and - of course - I found this video. Another great instructional video. I'm going to use this info very soon, ordering materials first. Thanks again!

Nice vid guys! The rig is quite interesting.Got the whole ideea of the mechanics of this rig. Not fishing for carp alot my self but here is my question: whats the diference betwen this rig and the zig rig. Maybe you will go through the zig rig some day. Have a nice weekend!

General question on chod rigs. With the hook length being so short, if you don't ditch the lead isn't it going to be hitting the fish during the fight? I use helicopter rigs and it's very similar and I'm worried I'm damaging the fish. Thanks!

Great video lads very clear and we’ll put together. I have stayed away from fishing the chod as I was always paranoid that my bait is off the bottom specially if I was trying to fish a slack line on a windy day. Can you take me through the process of how you guys fish your main line after you cast the chod out please. Do you just let of loads of slake then put it on your alarms? Would be great if you could talk me through your way after you cast the bait out.

Best fishing tutorial videos guys!! Keep up the good work. After tying the leadcore leader what’s the best way to join it to the main line?

So does it matter if your main line is 12lb when the rigs are 20-30lb plus with dark mater etc? Bit confused

I’ve been carp fishing 4 times with out landing a single carp only catfish. It’s definitely an obsession right now. I’ll give it a shot and update

Nice rig I don't think any of my local tackle shops carry anything like that unfortunately though

American here all the carp rig videos from across the pond are super complex I catch them here for fun with a Carolina rig and corn. Are they just supper picky there or something?

Will the rig be allowed in a no fixed lead lake ??? ( As the quick change swivel will open up under pressure allowing the lead to fall off) also will this mean it is a semi fixed lead?

What are the best uses between a naked chod system and a leadcore chod system?

Great video but you can buy all of this from the tackle shop pretied with the beads allready on the leader👍

Why advertise Korda? You are ex Nash boys surely Nash do choddys And rig bits?

Any tips I can’t get my mouth trap line back through the eye of the hook for 3rd time for the d shape once I’ve put the rig ring in place?

Perfect, but dam, so much prep... I just need to tie a hook to the line with bait 😂

Does this pass the no fixed leads or naked rigs rule ?

When you say a heavy floro or mono for the naked chod rig what would you say is heavy 20lb or higher ? Many thanks 😊

Thank you for your explanation of the chod system, I found your narrative to be very easily understood, I have used standard hair rigs on a swivel allowing movement between 2 tungsten shot for many years and found it to be a different and effective way of catching carp, but your system is much more fish friendly and more importantly precise(that came out wrong fish welfare is paramount and precision is secondary 😓!) I used your account of use on YT. It’s been invaluable to myself as I was using a method which was far less savvy on all aspects of safety and success I just wanted to thank BOTH of you as your method feels and is far superior,sorry I have taken this long to express my appreciation (I used method feeders for carp and did not explore the chod system) I was very happy to use feeders as they seemed to suit all my needs as well as the other well known systems,believe it or not I was blissfully using most of the other systems and did not consider using the chod until coming across a situation where it was the “go too” choice!, I didn’t want to leave this unsaid as you and your brother are admirable in the way you approach the sport I wish happiness and success in your endeavours in the future from one more informed angler yours Jammin.

Super never been to sure how to fish over weed and never used a chod set up . Let's go and have a go .. Cheers lads great video

Any tips for using the chod rig with tubing ? As leader ban on the waters I fish

Can you fish with corn/ fakecorn or only boille

How would this work with a lake that only allows safezone leaders

The only youtube video on chod rigs you will need. Excellent.

Can you guys do a vid on how to use baitscrews on to different rigs? Greatings from Belgium

I use a baitscrew (nash) instead of the rigring. Easy as pie!

Do Chod rigs avoid tench and bream?

If your not sure of the bottom is it a good idea to literally make this your default rig on all rods on the day? Unless you have time to lead around? And then maybe use different setups but have this as a default ?

Great video mate. One question, the fish hook themselves due to the weight of the lead upon taking the bait? Or do you still need to wind down the slack line and strike?