Now dont get me wrong, I like Matt Hayes and I there is no doubt that he is a good angler, but last night I watched a programme of him and Mick Brown fishing for Perch on the Thames in "Record Breakers"

Much to my dismay he was fishing with maggot/maggot feeder on the fixed loop method..a tether rig! Worse still he was repeatedly chucking it out full river width so the chance of a crack off was high.

I am aware that many anglers still use this fixed loop but why oh why do top anglers such as Matt, have to show this rig being used and therefore passing on to another generation?

Steve Randles: "why oh why do top anglers such as Matt, have to show this rig being used?"

Maybe he's not such a "top angler"?

Maybe it is an old programme, made before Matt became enlightened.

Record breaking fish is his latest series, made last year I believe.

Mat

Oh dear! And I was trying to be nice to him!!

The thing that really annoys me about it is he did not need to use the rig, he spent a couple of minutes detailing on how sensitive the quivertip needed to be for Perch fishing as they detect resistance easily. Then he employs a bolt rig for terminal tackle and chucks the whole thing 50 yards!

I think a running rig would have been better suited.

A running paternoster rig is not exactly rocket science. Hooklink to a swivel. Mainline through a tulip bead and a Roberts run ring, to the hooklink swivel. Lead tied to the run ring with a weaker line than either the hooklink or the mainline.
Job done. Just as sensitive, if not more so, than the fixed paternoster rig, and far safer for the fish.
BOF