I was forced into doing this by my angling buddy. But also; I was sick of being told my peg looked like a boot sale 😂 It's not easy to let go when for 30 years you've taken everything everywhere because you can't go home for something you've forgotten but that's when I learned better planning skills 😂 great video as usual Matthew 💙🎣☕
As always, great, no-nonsense advice that will make anyone a better carp angler! Why I subscribe and live on Matthews videos. I learn so much. The best on TH-cam.
Same as I fish Matthew, only take what I need, no good having a tackle box full of different stuff you will never use , all you're doing is making the tackle shop owner rich lol 👍
You're totally correct. I've gone up my own backside Over the years, with rigs bait and tackle. Only to find it was none of the above, just wrong location including time of day, night, year and weather. Change ? be patient, one thing at a time, and don't get sucked into the lastest fad. Old-fashioned water craft.
I've done this for years, Great advice Matt! I fish wild waters in the USA and am often walking miles through thick woods to get to my spots, I can't be carrying around pounds of unused equipment lol
100% right 👌👌 I also stripped everything a few years ago to only what is needed, have in the car and box with some extra tackle, tools and heavier Lead and so I can also adapt if I still get out of water or canal. 🎣
Just a suggestion you should make a premade starter kit like this and sell them I would have loved this when I started would have made my life so much easier
Good morning from USA mate. Spot on advice. I have been through this a number of times, and found that due to my OCD obsessively confused decision making, I spent less time fishing, and more time tinkering with rigs, setups for leads, rods n reels, pods and banksticks, bait, etc. it got so bad that I got so mad I was about to stop fishing altogether and sell off everything. I changed mindsets to simply going camping and said to hell to with fishing, carrying all this gear, it is too much and most of it sits. So, after beating myself up, I called my fishing partner and asked him to come over and let’s go through all this, scale it down to two setups that I can “grab and go”! We did it. Taking a very similar approach as you have here, I broke it all down. It has been amazing and my confidence grew, my attitude changed seemingly overnight, and now headed into this new year and upcoming fishing season, I can literally grab my “Day setup” which consists of bait bucket with bait, my chair with pack that has my essential gear tacklebox with all essentials needed, rod bag that has banksticks, net, weigh gear, and I am out the door. I can literally kiss the Mrs., tell her I be home for dinner and be down the road in minutes. I am in the process of dialing in bait and making it so it is grab n go as well. This type approach has saved my fishing! Cheers!
As always Matt, great advice, the amount of weight you save is unbelievable especially if you reduce the amount of leads too. I carry little stuff in my tackle box but keep a plastic box (shoe box size) with some spares in the van 👌👍
All my current rig making kit fits in a large maggot box 😂 that and a couple of rig boards with ready tied rigs is all that’s in my bag now. It feels good to have a spring clean of the gear. I do have a chest of drawers in the garage completely rammo with terminal tackle that i never use.
Great video. I was “forced” into doing this same tacke diet once i started fishing with 6 foot rods, carrying all fishing stuff in Nash transporter r6 bag. Since i carry all in there( including rodpod, i really have to be very minimalist to fit all in there. This year, i will go even lighter, taking out all i did not really used that often. This approach made me more effective and ultimatelly, more succesful.💪👍🎣
Matthew, have done this for some time now. but a brilliant reminder and presentation. I laugh at my fishing friends with the amount of tackle that they take, and yet i probably still take too much, on short sessions- just in case... lol :-}
great video as always mr collins! I started doing this a couple of years ago & try & do it every couple of months now. I find it quite therapeutic :) rig boards is where it really makes a difference. I found that I would "make do" with rigs that were ready tied as opposed to what I needed for the situation at the time. now i make sure I recycle / break down anything that isn't just right. wrt to hooks - I've been using a double sided hookbox for a couple of years now - blunt ones go in one side & the sharpened / new ones are on the other side. keeps it nice & simple & stops the points going over in the packet. like the nash thing that you keep your tools on - will be getting one of them for my little box for sure!
Great video, right on focus and incredible method to share. I take your simple, lean and well focused ideas as my guide when I am creating my tackle (as a fresh carper) dear Mathew. When I see my neighbourhood there are so many people giving up and selling their full last tech. tackle just because of this reason. People are focusing tackle, not the fish. And they uderstand carp fishing is not easy as they thought first. This was the most important quote at the end of the video. Focus, lean and confidince.
Settled a while back on just taking enough gear to make up multi-rigs with bait screws and bottom baits. 42 years carping condensed down to almost zero terminal tackle. Now concentrate on putting the bait in the right spot. Wish I’d known that back in the day..🤔
That's exactly what iv done now used to have a massive tackle box now have a small kodra one and a bag in the house 🏠 for makeing rigs nice compact rig board and I'm saveing easy 10kg the water proof bags like you have are great
I’ve gone through so much stuff to finally arrive at my final preferred hooklinks and hooks. Just a handful of items cover me for everything. Wasted so much money on things I’ll never use but happy to finally get where I am.
Thinned mine right down. I only tie 2 types of rigs and the only thing I change is hook size if I feel it's needed. I've got the 17l fox bucket and insert and I can take a day or fews gear in that. Rod bag, mat and bucket is all I need now for a day session.
Excellent video, Matt. Together with my son I've spent at least 60 days at the bank last year. Small backpack, rods in one hand, landing net and unhooking mat in the other. Simple, mobile, effective.
I take the same attitude when roving for chub or trotting on small rivers and streams. I still carry too much, but I try to carry just what I need. I was fed up of carrying a load of different size feeders and leads when I know I only need two or three sizes depending on the conditions.
Bonjour , tu as tout à fait raison . J’ai 52 ans et je pratique toutes les pêches et j’ai beaucoup de matériels qui sont à la cave. J’ai commencé la pêche en batterie cette année et j’ai regardé toutes vidéos qu’ils sont super et très bien expliqué. Donc je fais tes montages et pas besoin de plus de materiel ,car je prends du poisson en rivière sans trop de tralala .
I’m in the middle of sorting this all out now I’ve been looking for some sort of organiser board and I spotted that Nash one you have definitely gonna get one of them great idea great video
Nice, yes, those boards are excellent, there are 2 different versions that are compatible with the 125 water box, the one I use is the water box organiser.
I sit on a pigeon shooting bucket, inside 2 soft NGT bait buckets, bottom one for my camera gear, top has bait, catapult, hookbaits. No chair. bag, medium holdall that includes my food and drinks scales etc. Mat, quiver, barrow (as a barrow is easier when moving swims, you dump all rods and rod pod on it and go) That's my day fishing. Sometimes I take my DIY baiting pole too. I sometimes take a timeout and lay the contents of the bag and rig box out on the floor at home and question it all again. Have I used this? No? ok gone, next! I swap between the korda basix rig box (which is like a tardis) or the bigger korda box which is not really big either but very clever I have to say. Leads? 6x 10gr backleads, 3 cast leads in the quiver pocket, 6 spares in a small pouch. Lead is the killer on weight. I love the process of scaling down at times and have come short now and then. You live and learn.
I had to scale down on how much gear I bring with me. I'm getting older, and every bit of unnecessary weight I can eliminate helps my back and my knees.
I did this soon as korda tackle box came out I have one bag for tackle and everything to go fishing that's only 30l and a 30l bag for food they are the wychwood evq camo best Eva on the market so much thicker than what Nash and korda use
I'm in the middle of cleaning out all the stuff I don't need from my tackle bag and boxes. Having OCD doesn't really help and I used to carry way too much stuff. Next on the list is rods. I always take 2 x 3lb TC rods, 2 x 1.75lb TC rods, 2 x 1.5lb TC rods, plus a quiver tip rod. Ridiculous really.
The more you know ,the less you carry Less is more...I started this journey 20 yrs ago ,getting involved in lightweight bushcraft and wild camping ,reinforced ,the only people who benefit are .....tackle manufacturers! Ps...i use 3 rods ,so its 3 leads on ,3 spare ...rest in car ...i use a 40 litre rucksack ,no other luggage, all my bait ,food ,mini trangia unhooking mat goes in or on that.. Seat ,is a wearable Helinox chair one ,plus vibram feet.. Water carried by hand ,based on how many cuppas i have ,days 5 cuppas ,nights/ 24s,10 cuppas...spare water in car ... 😊
to be honest, i like to tinker around while fishing, so rather have some stuff with me i can try new things out. i really don´t see a problem with a tackle box, got the fox one with everything in it i need. Problem i have or see is rather all the other stuff i have to take along, unhooking mat sling... whatever. most of the time i leave my rod pod at home to safe space but on some lakes i can´t do without. i´m gonna sort this out first
I have a similar approach to my angling as i swap between carp and barbel fishing. Those organiser boards are just about impossible to get hold of in the UK.
What rigs and leads would you make up for fishing with a bait boat at Abbey Lakes in April, which has different depths and weed throughout? Or a silty syndicate dropping from a bait boat?
I fished Abbey Lakes a couple of times, 10ft long fixed zigs worked for me to fish above the weed. Silty syndicate with bait boat: inline running lead and a supple braided rig, hair or multi or slip d.
@@richardsnape1025 Dropping the lead in this situation is essential no matter how you fish. The Nash running rig system is certainly an option but finding a decent spot to present a rig is not easy. All my fish fell to zigs. You just need to be on the fish and whack them out at the right depth.
Great video as usual Matt 🙂 One quick question on the rig board, I noticed you threaded the mono through the foam to the other side of the board, is it just friction held or pinned anywhere? It seems you left them long so you can adjust length to suit?
Hi mate, the rig board is pre-cut, and it grips mono of any thickness tightly, so I don't have to use pins, and yes, I can leave the rigs long and adjust depending on where I'm fishing 👍 These rigs are designed to be tied directly to a swivel,.
What box is it you show in the end for bait and pellets? I am trying this year to narrow my gear down - even though it seems thats its mainly my "non fishing gear" that takes up the space and Weight. Started last year by removing 2,5 kg of leads from leadpouch 😁
For a running rig for carp on weedy river, cant you use pliers and bend the swivel down a bit. So it be a running rig in.the lead clip? I just find your running rig complicated and can't find the bits from Nash.i just want something simple and safe
I never recommend using a lead clip in that manner and set it as a ‘running lead clip’ because it can be dangerous for the carp, especially when using tubing. I explain why here: th-cam.com/video/a6WI6Y1o_Xk/w-d-xo.html If you can’t find the components I use, there are plenty of other options both on this channel and off-the-shelf kits in tackle shops. For a slightly weedy lake I’d use the Nash running lead clip system, but not with rig tubing (th-cam.com/video/cCpL6AdceOw/w-d-xo.html). I’d also consider the Fox run rig kit. You need to use a large diameter plastic ring to create a safe swivel based running lead system. If the lake is very weedy, the only safe option is to dump the lead on the take, this is the only time where I would use a lead clip.
I was forced into doing this by my angling buddy. But also; I was sick of being told my peg looked like a boot sale 😂 It's not easy to let go when for 30 years you've taken everything everywhere because you can't go home for something you've forgotten but that's when I learned better planning skills 😂 great video as usual Matthew 💙🎣☕
As always, great, no-nonsense advice that will make anyone a better carp angler! Why I subscribe and live on Matthews videos. I learn so much. The best on TH-cam.
The greatest video on TH-cam. Thanks so much!!!!
Love it, I take a similar approach. Sometimes less is more. Great video.
Scaled down yrs ago !! Carp fishing has become the “ See what a Lot I Got “ 😮😂
Same as I fish Matthew, only take what I need, no good having a tackle box full of different stuff you will never use , all you're doing is making the tackle shop owner rich lol 👍
Brilliant! I’m a minimalist and this confirms my approach
You're totally correct. I've gone up my own backside
Over the years, with rigs bait and tackle. Only to find it was none of the above, just wrong location including time of day, night, year and weather. Change ? be patient, one thing at a time, and don't get sucked into the lastest fad. Old-fashioned water craft.
Spot on 👌
I've done this for years, Great advice Matt! I fish wild waters in the USA and am often walking miles through thick woods to get to my spots, I can't be carrying around pounds of unused equipment lol
100% right 👌👌 I also stripped everything a few years ago to only what is needed, have in the car and box with some extra tackle, tools and heavier Lead and so I can also adapt if I still get out of water or canal. 🎣
Just a suggestion you should make a premade starter kit like this and sell them I would have loved this when I started would have made my life so much easier
Good morning from USA mate. Spot on advice. I have been through this a number of times, and found that due to my OCD obsessively confused decision making, I spent less time fishing, and more time tinkering with rigs, setups for leads, rods n reels, pods and banksticks, bait, etc. it got so bad that I got so mad I was about to stop fishing altogether and sell off everything. I changed mindsets to simply going camping and said to hell to with fishing, carrying all this gear, it is too much and most of it sits. So, after beating myself up, I called my fishing partner and asked him to come over and let’s go through all this, scale it down to two setups that I can “grab and go”! We did it. Taking a very similar approach as you have here, I broke it all down. It has been amazing and my confidence grew, my attitude changed seemingly overnight, and now headed into this new year and upcoming fishing season, I can literally grab my “Day setup” which consists of bait bucket with bait, my chair with pack that has my essential gear tacklebox with all essentials needed, rod bag that has banksticks, net, weigh gear, and I am out the door. I can literally kiss the Mrs., tell her I be home for dinner and be down the road in minutes. I am in the process of dialing in bait and making it so it is grab n go as well.
This type approach has saved my fishing!
Cheers!
Wonderful to hear mate, have a good season 🎣
As always Matt, great advice, the amount of weight you save is unbelievable especially if you reduce the amount of leads too. I carry little stuff in my tackle box but keep a plastic box (shoe box size) with some spares in the van 👌👍
All my current rig making kit fits in a large maggot box 😂 that and a couple of rig boards with ready tied rigs is all that’s in my bag now. It feels good to have a spring clean of the gear.
I do have a chest of drawers in the garage completely rammo with terminal tackle that i never use.
Great video. I was “forced” into doing this same tacke diet once i started fishing with 6 foot rods, carrying all fishing stuff in Nash transporter r6 bag. Since i carry all in there( including rodpod, i really have to be very minimalist to fit all in there. This year, i will go even lighter, taking out all i did not really used that often. This approach made me more effective and ultimatelly, more succesful.💪👍🎣
Matthew, have done this for some time now. but a brilliant reminder and presentation. I laugh at my fishing friends with the amount of tackle that they take, and yet i probably still take too much, on short sessions- just in case... lol :-}
great video as always mr collins! I started doing this a couple of years ago & try & do it every couple of months now. I find it quite therapeutic :)
rig boards is where it really makes a difference. I found that I would "make do" with rigs that were ready tied as opposed to what I needed for the situation at the time. now i make sure I recycle / break down anything that isn't just right. wrt to hooks - I've been using a double sided hookbox for a couple of years now - blunt ones go in one side & the sharpened / new ones are on the other side. keeps it nice & simple & stops the points going over in the packet.
like the nash thing that you keep your tools on - will be getting one of them for my little box for sure!
Great tips matt
Great video, right on focus and incredible method to share. I take your simple, lean and well focused ideas as my guide when I am creating my tackle (as a fresh carper) dear Mathew. When I see my neighbourhood there are so many people giving up and selling their full last tech. tackle just because of this reason. People are focusing tackle, not the fish. And they uderstand carp fishing is not easy as they thought first. This was the most important quote at the end of the video. Focus, lean and confidince.
Wonderful to hear, thank you.
Settled a while back on just taking enough gear to make up multi-rigs with bait screws and bottom baits. 42 years carping condensed down to almost zero terminal tackle. Now concentrate on putting the bait in the right spot.
Wish I’d known that back in the day..🤔
This is something I started last year, I was finding I wasn’t getting out due to having to much kit to carry. Defo worth reducing what need to take
I have an ancient tin tackle box in the garage. I'm going to try and fit everything in there. I'm very sentimental about it. Great excuse to use it.🍻
This video certainly wont get you new sponsors Matty 😂😂😂
As always very nice presented. Every young carp angler needs to see this.
Haha, cheers mate 👍
That's exactly what iv done now used to have a massive tackle box now have a small kodra one and a bag in the house 🏠 for makeing rigs nice compact rig board and I'm saveing easy 10kg the water proof bags like you have are great
I’ve gone through so much stuff to finally arrive at my final preferred hooklinks and hooks. Just a handful of items cover me for everything. Wasted so much money on things I’ll never use but happy to finally get where I am.
This is what I’ve started doing !
Thinned mine right down. I only tie 2 types of rigs and the only thing I change is hook size if I feel it's needed. I've got the 17l fox bucket and insert and I can take a day or fews gear in that.
Rod bag, mat and bucket is all I need now for a day session.
What great common sense, I started doing this late 23
Excellent video, Matt. Together with my son I've spent at least 60 days at the bank last year. Small backpack, rods in one hand, landing net and unhooking mat in the other. Simple, mobile, effective.
Perfect mate 👍
Hahaha, did this last week! I can now fit everything into my old Shakespeare tackle box WITH bait! 🙂
Nice 👍
I take the same attitude when roving for chub or trotting on small rivers and streams. I still carry too much, but I try to carry just what I need. I was fed up of carrying a load of different size feeders and leads when I know I only need two or three sizes depending on the conditions.
Bonjour , tu as tout à fait raison . J’ai 52 ans et je pratique toutes les pêches et j’ai beaucoup de matériels qui sont à la cave. J’ai commencé la pêche en batterie cette année et j’ai regardé toutes vidéos qu’ils sont super et très bien expliqué. Donc je fais tes montages et pas besoin de plus de materiel ,car je prends du poisson en rivière sans trop de tralala .
Super, merci pour le retour 🙏
Spot on that’s all you need
It's overwhelming taking so much gear, definitely scaling down this year.
really well done Matthew
Cheers mate 👍
I’m in the middle of sorting this all out now I’ve been looking for some sort of organiser board and I spotted that Nash one you have definitely gonna get one of them great idea great video
Nice, yes, those boards are excellent, there are 2 different versions that are compatible with the 125 water box, the one I use is the water box organiser.
I sit on a pigeon shooting bucket, inside 2 soft NGT bait buckets, bottom one for my camera gear, top has bait, catapult, hookbaits. No chair. bag, medium holdall that includes my food and drinks scales etc. Mat, quiver, barrow (as a barrow is easier when moving swims, you dump all rods and rod pod on it and go) That's my day fishing. Sometimes I take my DIY baiting pole too. I sometimes take a timeout and lay the contents of the bag and rig box out on the floor at home and question it all again. Have I used this? No? ok gone, next! I swap between the korda basix rig box (which is like a tardis) or the bigger korda box which is not really big either but very clever I have to say. Leads? 6x 10gr backleads, 3 cast leads in the quiver pocket, 6 spares in a small pouch. Lead is the killer on weight. I love the process of scaling down at times and have come short now and then. You live and learn.
I had to scale down on how much gear I bring with me. I'm getting older, and every bit of unnecessary weight I can eliminate helps my back and my knees.
great video, thx.
Is It thrue, sometimes We all need revisit our bags
I did this soon as korda tackle box came out I have one bag for tackle and everything to go fishing that's only 30l and a 30l bag for food they are the wychwood evq camo best Eva on the market so much thicker than what Nash and korda use
I like the look of those Nash boxes. I’ll have to give them a try…
They're working well for me, they're not completely waterproof but they keep everything nice and dry.
I'm in the middle of cleaning out all the stuff I don't need from my tackle bag and boxes. Having OCD doesn't really help and I used to carry way too much stuff.
Next on the list is rods. I always take 2 x 3lb TC rods, 2 x 1.75lb TC rods, 2 x 1.5lb TC rods, plus a quiver tip rod. Ridiculous really.
The work sharp field sharpening tool is the best hook sharpening tool on the market😊
Yep I need to reduce the crap I take… currently looking at the esp quickdraw range
The more you know ,the less you carry
Less is more...I started this journey 20 yrs ago ,getting involved in lightweight bushcraft and wild camping ,reinforced ,the only people who benefit are .....tackle manufacturers!
Ps...i use 3 rods ,so its 3 leads on ,3 spare ...rest in car ...i use a 40 litre rucksack ,no other luggage, all my bait ,food ,mini trangia unhooking mat goes in or on that..
Seat ,is a wearable Helinox chair one ,plus vibram feet..
Water carried by hand ,based on how many cuppas i have ,days 5 cuppas ,nights/ 24s,10 cuppas...spare water in car ...
😊
Nice 👌
to be honest, i like to tinker around while fishing, so rather have some stuff with me i can try new things out.
i really don´t see a problem with a tackle box, got the fox one with everything in it i need.
Problem i have or see is rather all the other stuff i have to take along, unhooking mat sling... whatever.
most of the time i leave my rod pod at home to safe space but on some lakes i can´t do without.
i´m gonna sort this out first
I have a similar approach to my angling as i swap between carp and barbel fishing. Those organiser boards are just about impossible to get hold of in the UK.
Shame, hopefully they'll be back in stock.
👍
We're did u get them foam right boards mate
From my local tackle shop, just a euro each, very popular with sea anglers 👍
What rigs and leads would you make up for fishing with a bait boat at Abbey Lakes in April, which has different depths and weed throughout? Or a silty syndicate dropping from a bait boat?
I fished Abbey Lakes a couple of times, 10ft long fixed zigs worked for me to fish above the weed. Silty syndicate with bait boat: inline running lead and a supple braided rig, hair or multi or slip d.
@ If not on zigs at abbey, would you fish a drop off lead because of the weed?
Thinking the Nash running rig system 👍🏻
@@richardsnape1025 Dropping the lead in this situation is essential no matter how you fish. The Nash running rig system is certainly an option but finding a decent spot to present a rig is not easy. All my fish fell to zigs. You just need to be on the fish and whack them out at the right depth.
Great video as usual Matt 🙂
One quick question on the rig board, I noticed you threaded the mono through the foam to the other side of the board, is it just friction held or pinned anywhere? It seems you left them long so you can adjust length to suit?
Hi mate, the rig board is pre-cut, and it grips mono of any thickness tightly, so I don't have to use pins, and yes, I can leave the rigs long and adjust depending on where I'm fishing 👍 These rigs are designed to be tied directly to a swivel,.
@@matthewcollinsangler thanks mate.
What box is it you show in the end for bait and pellets?
I am trying this year to narrow my gear down - even though it seems thats its mainly my "non fishing gear" that takes up the space and Weight.
Started last year by removing 2,5 kg of leads from leadpouch 😁
For the bait, I'm using the 105 water box from Nash.
Where is the inner organiser section from 2:30 in the video
It’s the standard Nash waterbox wallet organiser.
Great video, have you got a link to the small box logics?
Hi mate, it’s the Nash waterbox 125 and the insert is the standard Nash waterbox wallet organiser.
@ Cheers Matt
For a running rig for carp on weedy river, cant you use pliers and bend the swivel down a bit. So it be a running rig in.the lead clip? I just find your running rig complicated and can't find the bits from Nash.i just want something simple and safe
I never recommend using a lead clip in that manner and set it as a ‘running lead clip’ because it can be dangerous for the carp, especially when using tubing. I explain why here: th-cam.com/video/a6WI6Y1o_Xk/w-d-xo.html
If you can’t find the components I use, there are plenty of other options both on this channel and off-the-shelf kits in tackle shops. For a slightly weedy lake I’d use the Nash running lead clip system, but not with rig tubing (th-cam.com/video/cCpL6AdceOw/w-d-xo.html). I’d also consider the Fox run rig kit. You need to use a large diameter plastic ring to create a safe swivel based running lead system.
If the lake is very weedy, the only safe option is to dump the lead on the take, this is the only time where I would use a lead clip.
soak the file in vinegar clean it right up
TH-cam adds every 30s..... Never seen the end of the vidéo even if it seems interesting ....
Sorry to hear that mate, not something I control.