This lead was based on a sea fishing design which was used to gold the
bottom over wrecks far out at sea. The four flat sides ensured the lead
always fell on one flat side and rarely rolled over. The nose heavy theme
has been continued here so this lead will cast a very long way for an
inline. During the first ever field testing Danny F and Danny Turtle had
over 90 carp in 4 nights on a big Dutch water, over half of those were over
twenty pounds. Danny recalls 'the first night Korda both had a couple of
twenties each but felt Korda should be doing better, a change over to a stiff
link coupled with the prototype Flatliner Distance produced immediate takes
for me, mainly because I felt the carp there had been hammered on soft
hooklinks, so moving over to a short stiff hooklink with a heavy inline lead
(the first prototypes were only in 4oz) made the rig act totally differently
that what the carp where used to.
Danny caught loads more than Turtle because he had some mental block over the
stiff rig, even though I was catching so many on it. Being in the last swim
before the out of bounds may have had something to do with it, good angling,
I say, I drove so I got the pick of the spots!' Fish a Flatliner Distance on
a hard bottom like gravel sand or clay and the shape will actually hold the
loop of a stiff rig off the bottom allowing a very free pivot point for the
hooklink, so if the bottom is clean and hard and you are fishing with
boilies (stiff rigs don't work with small baits like particles, they
restrict the movement of a small bait too much) then try that combination.
